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Smectic-Nematic Phase Transition as Wrinkling Transition in a Stack of Membranes

H. Kleinert

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9912023

Abstract

We point out that the smectic-nematic phase transition may considered as a transition of a stack of membranes in 2+ε dimensions, in which the layers become so wrinkled that they interpenetrate each other are no longer distinguishable.

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