Traveling phase transition boundaries

Another important strength of cholesteric and nematic liquid crystals in this context is that they are three-dimensional liquids. As a result, transitions from equilibrium to turbulence can gracefully evolve, so can be followed in the lab frame. All length and time scales do not suddenly appear at one transition, or bifurcation, as they do at, e.g., the traveling TGBa-smectic A phase boundary [6],... 

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