@article {RN53,
	title = {Critical fluctuations and random-anisotropy glass transition in nematic elastomers},
	journal = {Physical Review B},
	volume = {78},
	number = {2},
	year = {2008},
	note = {n/a},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {<p>We carry out a detailed deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study of local nematic ordering in polydomain nematic elastomers. This system has a close analogy to the random-anisotropy spin glass. We find that, in spite of the quadrupolar nematic symmetry in three dimensions requiring a first-order transition, the order parameter in the quenched "nematic glass" emerges via a continuous phase transition. In addition to this remarkable effect, by a careful analysis of the NMR line shape, we deduce that the local director fluctuations grow in a critical manner around the transition point. This could become an essential experimental evidence for the quenched disorder changing the order of discontinuous transition.</p>
},
	keywords = {crystal elastomers impurities stability network order},
	issn = {1098-0121},
	doi = {ARTN 020201 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.020201},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://WOS:000258190200002},
	author = {Feio, G. and J. L. Figueirinhas and Tajbakhsh, A. R. and Terentjev, E. M.}
}
