NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC TRANSITION IN POROUS-MEDIA

Authors
MARITAN A CIEPLAK M BELLINI T BANAVAR JR
Citation
A. Maritan et al., NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC TRANSITION IN POROUS-MEDIA, Physical review letters, 72(26), 1994, pp. 4113-4116
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
72
Issue
26
Year of publication
1994
Pages
4113 - 4116
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)72:26<4113:NTIP>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Motivated by recent experiments on the nematic-isotropic transition in porous media, two simplified models are proposed and studied using me an field theory and Monte Carlo simulations. The results are in qualit ative accord with those found in the experiments.