Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1998
Abstract
It is experimentally demonstrated that a transition from a synclinic to an anticlinic liquid crystal phase occurs via stable domain wall propagation after quenching in a uniform temperature field. Such a one-dimensional growth may be explained in terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation. The experiment provides the first example of free, one-dimensional growth in a system subjected to a pure and uniform temperature field.
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
80
Issue
20
First Page
4478
Last Page
4481
Required Publisher's Statement
Copyright 1998 American Physical Society. The original published version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4478.
Recommended Citation
Wang, X. Y.; Li, Jian-feng; Gurarie, Eliezer; Fan, S.; Kyu, Thein; Keast, S. S.; and Rosenblatt, Charles, "Kinetics of Phase Transition in An Anticlinic Liquid Crystal Induced by a Uniform Temperature Field: Growth in One Dimension" (1998). College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering. 66.
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