Field Behavior

An external electric field interacts with the local dielectric anisotropy of a blue phase and contributes to the energy of the liquid crystal with the term Ae jAn [95]. Flexo-effects in blue phases have not been discussed yet. 

FIGURE 6.25. Deformation of the unit cell due to electrostriction for a blue phase with positive and negative dielectric anisotropy when the field is parallel either to a fourfold or to a twofold axis [92]. 

The field distorts the cubic lattice and results in a change in the angular (or spectral) positions of the Bragg reflections. Moreover, field-induced phase transitions into novel phases have been observed [91, 96]. The field can also induce birefringence parallel to the field direction due to the optical biaxiality of the distorted cubic lattice [97]. 

In a weak field no phase transition occurs and a cubic lattice is distorted according to the sign of the local dielectric anisotropy of the medium. This can be illustrated by Fig. 6.25 (taken from [98]). The effect is described by the strain tensor 

With an increasing external field a series of the field-induced phase transitions BP I — cholesteric, BP II cholesteric, and then cholesteric — nematic are observed. This is illustrated by Fig. 6.27 [91] where the voltage-temperature phase diagram is presented for a mixture (47-53 mol.%) of 

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We have found that the volume density tends to infinity differently near point, linear, and surface masses, and this fact influences the field behavior in the vicinity of such places. Of course, Equation (1.6) always allows us to calculate the field of attraction g. At the same time, in many cases the use of Equation (1.15) greatly simplifies this procedure. 

One more feature of the field behavior is worth noting. Inasmuch as the layer has infinite extension in horizontal planes, the distribution of masses possesses axial symmetry with respect to any line parallel to the z-axis that passes through the observation point. For this reason, it is always possible to find two elementary masses such that the tangential component of the field caused by them is equal to zero. Respectively, the field due to all masses of the layer has only a normal component gz. 

Note, that Equation (2.318) does not contain y and z. This means that the component is the same in any plane perpendicular to the x-axis, (x — constant) and changes linearly with x. As we will see later, the components g y and g are constant on the planes y = constant and z = constant, respectively. Now we will discover the second remarkable feature of the field behavior, which is based on the fact that the right hand side of Equation (2.318) depends on the ratio of the semi-axes, bja. Correspondingly, if we imagine another spheroid with the same density of... 

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A more rigorous approach consists of considering that electron hopping between fixed redox sites is fundamentally a percolation problem, each redox center being able to undergo a bounded diffusion motion.16 If these are fast enough, a mean-field behavior is reached in which (4.24) applies replacing d2 by d2 + 3 Ad2, where Adr is the mean displacement of a redox molecule out of its equilibrium position. 

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There are other scenarios for an apparent mean-field criticality [15, 17]. The most likely one is crossover from asymptotic Ising behavior to mean-field behavior far from the critical point, where the critical fluctuations must vanish. For the vicinity of the critical point, Wegner [43] worked out an expansion for nonasymptotic corrections to scaling of the general form... 

Figure 3. Effective exponent / eff of Pitzer s system n-hexyl-triethylammonium n-hexyl-triethylborate + diphenylether. Curves a and b are derived from Singh and Pitzer s data presuming asymptotic mean-field behavior and asymptotic Ising behavior [35], respectively. Curve c is derived from the data of Wiegand et al. [96].

Perhaps a more decisive discrimination between Ising and mean-field behavior could be provided by the investigation of weak anomalies [6] as predicted for the specific heat. Such weak anomalies are absent in the mean-field case (cf. Table I). Except for the diameter anomalies already mentioned, no thermodynamic investigations of weak anomalies were reported so far. However, dynamical properties such as the shear viscosity and electrical conductance may show weak anomalies as well. 

Another claim for an apparent mean-field behavior of ionic fluids came from measurements of heat capacities. The weak Ising-like divergences of the heat capacities Cv of the pure solvent and CPtx of mixtures should vanish in the mean-field case (cf. Table I). The divergence of Cv is firmly established for pure water. Accurate experiments for aqueous solutions of NaCl... 

The observation of crossover has later been substantiated by several other studies. In particular, Jacob et al. [165] performed light scattering measurements on the system 3-MP + water + NaBr. The data indicate comparatively sharp crossover in the range 10-4 salt concentration. It is intriguing to characterize this crossover by a suitably defined crossover temperature Tx, defined here by the point of inflection in the T-dependence of the effective exponent yeff. Figure 8 shows fx as a function of the amount of added NaBr. Eventually, plain mean-field behavior is obtained in a solution containing about 16.8 mass% NaBr. 

While the early work on molten NH4CI gave only some qualitative hints that the effective critical behavior of ionic fluids may be different from that of nonionic fluids, the possibility of apparent mean-field behavior has been substantiated in precise studies of two- and multicomponent ionic fluids. Crossover to mean-field criticality far away from Tc seems now well-established for several systems. Examples are liquid-liquid demixings in binary systems such as Bu4NPic + alcohols and Na + NH3, liquid-liquid demixings in ternary systems of the type salt + water + organic solvent, and liquid-vapor transitions in aqueous solutions of NaCl. On the other hand, Pitzer s conjecture that the asymptotic behavior itself might be mean-field-like has not been confirmed. 

We recall that comparatively sharp and even nonmonotonous crossover from Ising to mean-field behavior has been deduced from experiments for a diversity of ionic systems. We note that this unusually sharp crossover is a striking feature of some other complex systems as well we quote, for example, solutions of polymers in low-molecular-weight solvents [307], polymer blends [308-311], and microemulsion systems [312], Apart from the fact that application of the Ginzburg criterion to ionic fluids yields no particularly... 

Extension of the classical Landau-Ginzburg expansion to incorporate nonclassical critical fluctuations and to yield detailed crossover functions were first presented by Nicoll and coworkers [313, 314] and later extended by Chen et al. [315, 316]. These extensions match Ginzburg theory to RG theory, and thus interpolate between the lower-order terms of the Wegner expansion at T -C Afa and mean-field behavior at f Nci-... 

For more complex fluids, one expects < 0. Then, mean-field behavior can result from two different processes. First, the long-range nature of the intermolecular forces may cause u to be small, while A is not small. Second, may be large or even diverging. Then, A and Nqi will be small, while u is not necessarily small. This case is expected to give a sharp or even nonmonotonous crossover, because a second length scale is present. 

From a global assessment of these results, it seems inescapable to conclude that mean-field behavior does not remain valid asymptotically close to the critical point. Rather, ionic systems seem to show Ising-to-mean-field crossover. Such a crossover has been a recurring result observed near liquid-liquid consolute points in Coulombic electrolyte solutions, in ternary aqueous electrolyte solutions containing an organic cosolvent, and in binary aqueous solutions of NaCl near the liquid-vapor critical line. 

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