Landau weak crystallization theory of main phase transition in membranes

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• Kats, E (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)
• Tuesday 28 May 2013, 14:00-15:00
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals

We demonstrate that experimental data concerning the main phase transition in membranes can be rationalized in the framework of a theoretical scheme constructed in the spirit of the so-called weak crystallization theory. The scheme enables to explain a combination of seemingly contradictory features of the main phase transition: its first order nature and a well pronounced pre-transitional critical behaviour of various physical quantities.

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