Optical and calorimetric studies near the smectic-A to smectic-C tricritical point

Author:

Chakraborty SusantaORCID,Mitra SmritiORCID,Kumar Das MalayORCID,Das BananiORCID

Abstract

Abstract Detailed heat capacity and birefringence measurements have been performed to investigate the transitional behavior near the orthogonal smectic-A to tilted smectic-C (Sm-A–Sm-C) phase transition on several liquid crystalline mixtures comprising of a rod-like mesogen and a hockey stick-shaped compound having substitution of methyl group in the lateral position. Both probing methods were found to be rather successful in assessing the phase transitional behavior with reasonably good accuracy. The data shows a divergent pretransitional excess above and below the transition temperature. Analysis of the data have been performed in detail with the renormalization-group expression with correction-to-scaling terms. The extracted effective critical exponents were observed in between the tricritical and 3D-XY limit. Detailed investigations carried out in this work reveal the dependence of the Sm-A–Sm-C phase transition on the width of the Sm-A phase and the existence of a broad tricritical range.

Funder

UGC-DAE CSR

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,Mathematical Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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