nematicsmectic director 3 x 3 tensor with two independent eigenvalues
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NEMATIC SMECTIC
1cos32
1cos 2
2 P
director
3 x 3 tensor with two independent eigenvalues
z
3He/4He mixture
Physical system Variable 1 Variable 23He-4He mixtures density or concentration Temperature
Vortex-lattice melting Magnetic fieldTemperature
Liquid crystals ConcentrationTemperature
Cold Fermi gas Spin polarisationTemperature
Ferroelectrics Pressure or electric fieldTemperature
MetamagnetsPressure or magnetic
fieldTemperature
Structural transition Pressure Temperature
Melting on graphite Coverage Temperature
Solidification Pressure Temperature
Taylor-Couette vortex pair
Aspect ratio Rotation rate