| Speaker(s) | Efim Kats L.D.Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow |
| Date | 28 May 2013 – 14:00 to 15:00 |
| Venue | INI Seminar Room 1 |
| Session Title | Landau weak crystallization theory of main phase transition in membranes |
| Event | [MLC] The mathematics of liquid crystals |
| Abstract | 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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