Published on Physical Review E (http://pre.aps.org)

January 1995

Liquid-Crystal Notation in Physical Review A and Physical Review E

Please note the style followed in Physical Review A and Physical Review E for liquid-crystal notation.

The following abbreviations are standard for liquid-crystal phases. (They should be defined at first appearance in text.)

smectic-A, Sm-A
isotropic, I
lamellar, L
hexagonal, H
hexatic, Hex
nematic, N
crystalline, Cry

“Smectic” must be an adjective in the title and the first occurrence in text. “Smectics” as a noun is acceptable later in the manuscript.

The word “nematogen” is not printed and should be replaced by “nematic liquid crystal.”

Nematogen $\longrightarrow$ nematic liquid crystal

Transitions with long arrows and temperatures have the temperature printed in miniletters below the arrows:

Sm-A $\mathop{\longleftrightarrow}\limits_{500 ℃}$ I $\mathop{\longleftrightarrow}\limits_{520 ℃}$ crystal

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