Dr. Prabir Kumar Mukherjee

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics
KeywordsLandau-Ginzburg theory, antiferroelectric liquid crystals, ferroelectric liquid crystals, phase transition and critical phenomena, rotator phases

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CitySerampore, Hooghly
InstitutionGovernment College of Engineering and Textile Technology
InstituteDepartment of Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Helmut R. BrandLehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Frank GiesselmannUniversität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/1999

Programme(s)

1998Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2013Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Effect of nonmesogenic impurities on the isotropic to smectic-A phase transition . In: Liquid Crystals, 2013, 39-44
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Effect of gauche molecular conformations and molecular flexibility on the rotator phase transitions of alkanes. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2012, 1517-1523
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Fluctuation-driven first order crystal to rotator-V phase transition in n-alkane.. In: Phylosophical Magazine Letters , 2012, 160-165
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Isotropic to Smectic-C phase transition in liquid crystalline elastomers.. In: Journal Chemical Physics, 2012, 144902-1-6
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Isotropic to ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals phase transition. . In: Phase Transitions, 2012, 65-84
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Multicriticality in smectic liquid crystals. In: Journal of Non Crystalline Solids, 2012, 366-373
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Pretransitional Kerr effect and nonlinear dielectric effect in the isotropic phase of the isotropic to smectic-E phase transition . In: Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2012, 1-3
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee ans Santanu Dey: Simple Landau model of the Liquid-Rotator-II-Rotator-I phase transitiions in n-alknnes. In: Journal of Modern Physics, 2012, 80-84
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: The Kerr effect and nonlinear dielectric effect in the vicinity of the isotropic to anti-ferroelectric B2 phase transition in banana shaped molecules . In: Chemical Physics, 2012, 67-70
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Theoretical model of the temperature and frequency dependent non-linear dielectric effect in the isotropic phase above the isotropic-smectic-A phase transition.. In: European Physical Journal E, 2012, 1-5
2012Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Tricritical behavior of the smectic-A to hexatic-B phase transition in a liquid crystal mixture. In: Solid State Communications, 2012, 1142-1146
2011Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Elastic properties of the RIV-RIII rotator phases of alkanes. In: Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2011, 1066-1069
2011Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Renormalization-group analysis of the RI - RV phase transition. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2011, 224502-1-224502-6
2011Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Tricritical behavior of the RI-RV rotator phase transition in a mixture of alkanes with nanoparticles. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2011, 134505-1-134505-6
2010Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Density variation in the Landau theory of the cholesteric to smectic-A phase transition.. In: Chemical Physics, 2010, 83-85
2010Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Macroscopic description of the isotropic to antiferroelectric B2 phase transition in banana-shaped liquid crystals. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2010, 024903-1-024903-7
2010Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Nematic-SmA-SmC multicritical point.: An alternative model.. In: European Physical Journal E, 2010, 175-181
2010Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Tricritical behavior in the rotator phases of normal alkanes. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2010, 5700-5703
2009Prabir Kumar Mukherjee and Prasenjit Bose: Non-linear dielectric effect in the isotropic phase of antiferroelectric liquid crystals.. In: Physica B, 2009, 3401-3404
2009Prabir Kumar Mukherjee and Kallol Sen: On a new topology in the phase diagram of biaxial nematic liquid crystals. In: J ournal of Chemical Physics, 2009, 141101-1-141101-4
2009Asok Kumar Das and Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Phenomenological theory of the direct isotropic to hexatic phase transition. . In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2009, 054901-1-054901-5
2009Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Pressure effect on the rotator-II to rotator-I transition of alkanes.. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2009, 214906-1-214906-4
2009Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Tricritical behavior of the smectic-A to smectic-C* transition.. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2009, 074902-1-074902-7
2008Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Pressure induced tricritical point at the cholesteric – smectic-A phase transition.. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2008, 244902-1-244902-6
2008Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Pressure induced tricritical point at the cholesteric – smectic-A phase transition. . In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2008, 244902-1-244902-6
2005Prabir Kumar Mukherjee, Harald Pleiner and Helmut R. Brand: A phenomenological theory of the isotropic to chiral smectic C phase transition. . In: Euro. Phys. E, 2005, 501-506
2005Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Anomalous heat capacity above the isotropic-chiral smectic C phase transition. . In: Phys. Rev. E, 2005, 061704
2005Prabir Kumar Mukherjee, J.P.F. Lagerwall and F. Giesselmann: Electrolyte effects on the nematic-isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals. . In: Liquid Crystals, 2005, 1301-1306
2004Prabir Kumar Mukherjee and Frank Giesselmann: Landau model of the direct isotropic to smectic C^*_A phase transition in antiferroelectric liquid crystals. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2004, 12038-12043
2002Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Effect of nonmesogenic solute on the nematic-smectic-A phase transiion. In: Journal of Chemical Physics , 2002, 9531-9536
2002Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Elastic properties of the rotator phases of pentacosane C_{25}H_{52}. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2002, 10787-10793
2002Prabir Kumar Mukherjee, Harald Pleiner and Helmut R. Brand: Landau model of the Smectic C-isotropic phase transition. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2002, 7788-7792
2002Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Nematic-isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals. In: Liquid Crystals, 2002, 863-869
2002Prabir Kumar Mukherjee and Sylwester J. Rzoska: Pressure effect on the smectic-A-isotropic phase transition. In: Physical Review E, 2002, 051705-1-051705-5
2001Helmut.R.Brand, Prabir Kumar Mukherjee and Harald Pleiner: Macroscopic dynamics near the isotropic-smectic-A phase transition. In: Physical Review E, 2001, 061708-1-061708-6
2001Prabir Kumar Mukherjee, H.Pleiner and H.R.Brand: Simple Landau model of the smectic-A-isotropic phase transition. In: Eur. Phys. J. E, 2001, 293-297
2000Harald Pleiner, Prabir Kumar Mukherjee and Helmut R. Brand: Direct transitions from isotropic to smectic phases. In: Proceedings Freiburger Arbeitstagung Fluessigkristalle , 2000, P59-62
2000Prabir Kumar Mukherjee: Rotator-II to rotator-I phase transition in alkanes. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2000, 4472-4475