Crumpling and second sound in lyotropic lamellar phases

Lubensky, TC and Prost, J and Ramaswamy, S (1990) Crumpling and second sound in lyotropic lamellar phases. In: Journal de Physique (main title), 51 (10). pp. 933-943.

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Abstract

We study relative concentration fluctuations in two component lamellar smectic liquid crystals consisting of surfactant layers of width w separated by a background fluid and show that these fluctuations are dominated by crumpling fluctuations of the surfactant layers when (w/l)2

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal de Physique (main title)
Publisher:	Editions Physique
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Editions Physique.
Keywords:	[PHYS:HIST] Physics/Physics archives, compressibility of liquids, elasticity of liquids, fluctuations, liquid structure, second sound, smectic liquid crystals
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	03 Feb 2011 06:55
Last Modified:	03 Feb 2011 06:55
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/35208

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