Frequency Behavior of the Second-Sound Damping in the Smectic-Phase of Octylcyanobiphenyl: Evidence for the Divergence of Viscosities
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- 25 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (12) , 1268-1270
Abstract
The breakdown of hydrodynamics predicted by Mazenko, Ramaswamy, and Toner is verified by experiments which use the excitation of second-sound resonances in the smetic- phase of octylcyanobiphenyl. One finds a diverging viscosity , which has an order of magnitude comparable with the crude predictions of the theory.
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