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Critical behavior of the layer compressional elastic constant B at the smectic-Anematic phase transition

Physical Review B, ISSN: 0163-1829, Vol: 41, Issue: 13, Page: 9032-9037
1990
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The temperature dependence of the layer compressional elastic constant B has been studied in four different compounds. Two of them, 4-cyano-4-(n-octyl) biphenyl and 4-cyano-4-(n-octyloxy)biphenyl, are polar and give partially bilayered smectic-Ad phases while the remaining two are nonpolar and present monolayered smectic-Am phases. In all cases, the smectic-A to nematic phase transition was found to be second order. A second-sound resonance technique has been used to measure, the critical exponent of B on approaching the nematic phase. The values found lie in between 0.39 and 0.42, while the uncertainty is about 0.03. Although the nematic smectic-A transition does not belong to a single universality class the exponents are much less scattered than previously reported, with a mean exponent of 0.41 being consistent with the four reported values. When available, in the case of polar compounds, the set of critical exponents measured by calorimetry or x-ray scattering together with seems to be accounted for by the anisotropic model of the smectic-A nematic phase transition. © 1990 The American Physical Society.

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