Abstract
Specific-heat measurements near the nematic-smectic- transitions of the octyloxy, nonyloxy, and decyloxy members of the 4--pentyl-phenylthiol-4′-alkoxybenzoate () homologous series reveal the presence of critical-tricritical crossover behavior upon increasing , with . The results are consistent with Alben's extension of de Gennes's superfluid analogy to include superfluid---like tricritical behavior.
- Received 13 August 1979
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.1171
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