Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rosso, Riccardo

Titel

Orientational order parameters in biaxial nematics: Polymorphic notation

Ist Teil von

• Liquid crystals, 2007-06, Vol.34 (6), p.737-748

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper, a wealth of notations introduced in the past 30 years to denote second-rank orientational order parameters for biaxial nematics are compared, stressing sources of possible confusion. A unifying, intrinsic treatment of the second-rank orientational order parameters is also presented, which does not suffer from the redundancy of the Saupe matrix and is independent of the way in which rotations are parametrized.