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Some Conditions of Ferromagnetic Liquid Crystal Existence
Author(s) -
Buivydas M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.2221680218
Subject(s) - liquid crystal , ferromagnetism , condensed matter physics , ferroelectricity , symmetry (geometry) , electric field , materials science , magnetic field , analogy , physics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , geometry , linguistics , philosophy , optoelectronics , dielectric
The possibility of the existence of the ferromagnetic liquid crystal based on analogy between electric and magnetic phenomena is considered. Nematic and smectic liquid crystalline states and symmetry conditions are discussed. The most common case — hypothetical ferromagnetic‐ferroelectric liquid crystal (FFLC) and some of the field effects on it are described based on Landau free energy expression.