Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena.phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals
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The present text is the transcription of an introductory lecture discussing two phase transitions : nematic-isotropic and smectic A-nematic. The emphasis is on simple qualitative features, including Landau ~heories, coherence lengths and scaling properties.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016