TIM SLUCKIN'S PUBLICATION LIST

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So that the material is more accessible the papers are arranged by year.

1974
1. The Effect of Phonon Lifetimes on the Kapitza Conductance.
T.J. Sluckin, G.A. Toombs and F.W. Sheard.
Solid State Comm. 14, 203

2. The Attenuation of Phonons in Liquid Helium at very low temperatures.
T.J. Sluckin and R.M. Bowley.
J. Phys. C (Solid St. Phys) 7, 1799
 

3. Phonon Transmission from a Solid into He.
R.M. Bowley, F.W. Sheard, T.J. Sluckin, and G.A. Toombs.
Proc of Lancaster Conference on Microwave Acoustics p117.

 
1975
4. A Simple model for the Kapitza Conductance.
T.J. Sluckin.
Phys. Lett. 53A, 390.

 
5. High Frequency Phonon transmission between a Solid and Superfluid Helium.
T.J. Sluckin, F.W.Sheard, R.M. Bowley and G.A. Toombs.
J. Phys. C (Solid St Phys) 8, 3521.

 

 

1977

6. Nucleation of Freezing by Charged Particles.
M.W. Cole and T.J. Sluckin.
J. Chem. Phys. 67, 746.

 
7. Positive ion structure in He3-rich liquid helium mixtures.
T.J. Sluckin.
Phys. Lett. 64A, 211.

 

 

1978
8. Solitary Wave Propagation as a model for poling in PVF2.

A.J. Hopfinger, A.J.J. Lewanski, T.J. Sluckin and P.L. Taylor,
in Solitons and Condensed Matter Physics, ed. A.R. Bishop and T. Schneider (Springer,N.Y.) 330.

 

 

9. Direct Electronic Contribution to the Kapitza Conductance.

T.J. Sluckin.
J. Phys C.(Solid St Phys) 11, 3817.

 

 

1979

10. Low Temperature Mobility of Positive Ions in Helium Vapour.
T.J. Sluckin.
J. Phys. C (Solid St Phys) 12, L449-54.

 

 

11. Theory of Structural Phase Transitions in Poly(vinylidene fluoride).

N.C. Banik, F.P. Boyle, T.J. Sluckin, P.L. Taylor, S.K. Tripathy and A.J. Hopfinger.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 456.

 

 

1980

12. Theory of Density Profiles and Surface Tensions of Charged Fluids.
R. Evans and T.J. Sluckin.
J. Phys. C (Solid St Phys.) 13, L77-81.

 

 

13. A Density Functional Theory of Inhomogeneous Charged Fluids:

Application to Surfaces of Molten Salts.
R. Evans and T.J. Sluckin.
Mol. Phys. 40, 413.

 

 

14. Driven Oscillations of a Limit Cycle Oscillator.

S. Machlup and T.J. Sluckin.
J. Theor. Biology, 84, 119-24.

 

 

15. Kink Propagation as a Model in PVF2

H. Dvey-Aharon, T.J. Sluckin, P.L. Taylor and A.J. Hopfinger.
Phys. Rev. B21, 3700-7.

 

 

16. Theory of Structural Phase Transitions in Crystalline Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride).

N.V. Banik, F.P. Boyle, T.J. Sluckin, P.L. Taylor, S.K. Tripathy and A.J. Hopfinger.
J.Chem. Phys. 72, 3191.

 

 

17. The Structure and Surface Tension of the Liquid-Vapour Interface of model of a Molten salt.

M.M. Telo da Gama, R. Evans and T.J. Sluckin.
Mol. Phys. 41, 1355.

 

 

1981

18. Applications of the Density Functional Theory of Charged Fluids.
T.J. Sluckin.
J.C.S. Faraday Trans. II 77, 1575-86.

 

 

19. Double Layer Effects at the Surface of a Molten salt.

T.J. Sluckin.
J.C.S. Faraday Trans. II 77, 1029-43.

 

 

20. Density Functional Theory for simple molecular fluids.

T.J. Sluckin.
Mol. Phys. 43, 1817-49.

 
21. Theory of reversible crystallisation and electric effects in PVF2.
H. Dvey-Aharon, T.J. Sluckin and P.L. Taylor.
Ferroelectrics 31, 25-31.

 

 

22. The rôle of attractive forces in the structure of simple liquids.

R. Evans and T.J. Sluckin.
J.Phys C (Solid St.Phys.) 14, 2569-79.

 

 

23. The long wavelength behaviour of the structure factor of liquid alkali metals.

R. Evans and T.J. Sluckin.
J.Phys C (Solid St. Phys.)14, 3137-53.

 
24. Vortex Nucleation by Negative Ions in He3-rich He3-He4 mixtures.
T.J. Sluckin.
Physica 108B, 1119-20 (Proc. LT-16).

 

 

25. Influence of Flow on the Isotropic-Nematic Transition in polymer solutions:

a thermodynamic approach.
T.J. Sluckin. Macromolecules 14, 1676-8.

 

 

1982

26. Microscopic Formula for the dielectric constant in simple polar non-polarisable fluids:
density functional approach.
T.J. Sluckin.
Chem. Phys. Lett. 87, 308-10.

 

 

27. Theory of the optical determination of surface anisotropy in molecular fluids.

T.J. Sluckin.
Mol. Phys. 47, 1267-82.

 

 

28. Nucleation by supersaturated partially wetting films.

T.J. Sluckin.
J. Phys. Chem. 86, 4089.

 

 

1983

29. Mean Field Theory of Nematics: Density Functional Approach.
T.J. Sluckin and P. Shukla.
J. Phys. A (Math and General) 16, 1539-53.

 

 

30. The Mean Spherical Model and other Approximations in Nematics.

T.J. Sluckin.
Mol. Phys. 49, 221-31.

 

 

1984

31. Boundary Effects in the Orientational Ordering of Adsorbed Nitrogen.
H.Evans, D.J.Tildesley and T.J.Sluckin.
J. Phys. C (Solid St. Phys.) 17, 4907.

 

 

32. Re-entrant Wetting Transitions in Molecular Fluid Mixtures.

T.J. Sluckin and J.T. Chalker.
J. Phys. (Paris) Lett. 45, L-863.

 

 

33. Statistical mechanics of a simple model of the nematic liquid crystal-wall interface.

A. Poniewierski and T.J. Sluckin.
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 111, 373.

 

 

1985

34. Renormalisation Group Study of a Lattice Model of the Nematic-Isotropic Transition.
P. Shukla and T.J. Sluckin.
J. Phys. A (Math and General) 18, 93-100.

 

 

35. Statistical mechanics of a simple model of the nematic liquid crystal-wall interface II,

A. Poniewierski and T.J. Sluckin.
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 126, 143-160.

 

 

36. On the free energy density of non-uniform nematics.

A. Poniewierski and T.J. Sluckin.
Mol. Phys. 55, 1113-27.

 

 

37. Almost Critical Behaviour of the Anchoring Energy at the Interface between a Nematic Liquid Crystal and a SiO substrate.

S. Faetti, M. Gatti, V. Palleschi and T.J. Sluckin.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1681-4.

 

 

38. Novel Surface Phase Transition in Nematic Liquid Crystals:

A. Poniewierski and T.J. Sluckin.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2907-10.

 

 

1986
39. Free Energies in the Landau and Molecular Field Approaches.

J. Katriel, G.F. Kventsel, G.R. Luckhurst and T.J. Sluckin.                Liquid Crystals 1, 337-55.

40. Computer Simulation Studies of Anisotropic Systems XV:
the surface properties of the Lebwohl-Lasher model nematogen.
G.R. Luckhurst, T.J.Sluckin and H.B. Zewdie.                                    Mol. Phys. 59, 659-78.

41. Orientational Wetting Transitions and Related Phenomena.
T.J. Sluckin and A. Poniewierski.                                          in    Fluid Interfacial Phenomena, ed. C.A. Croxton (John Wiley, Chichester) pp 215-53.


1987
42. Molecular Field Theory of the Switching Transition in Mixtures of Liquid Crystals of Opposite Diamagnetic Anisotropies.
G.F. Kventsel, J. Katriel, and T.J. Sluckin.                                        Mol.Cryst. Liq. Cryst. Lett. 5, 145-151.

43. Theory of the nematic-isotropic Transition in a Restricted Geometry.
A. Poniewierski and T.J. Sluckin.                                                        Liquid Crystals 2, 281-312.

44. Theory of Smectic Wetting and Layering.
Z. Pawlowska, G.F. Kventsel and T.J. Sluckin.                                  Phys. Rev. A36, 992.

45. Fine Structure Effects at the Switching Transition in Liquid Crystal Mixtures.
G.F. Kventsel and T.J. Sluckin.                                                            Phys. Rev. A36, 4386-90.

46. Defect Core Structure in Nematic Liquid Crystals.
N. Schopohl and T.J. Sluckin.                                                              Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 2582-5.


1988
47. On Quantum Spin Chains and Liquid Crystal Films.
T.J. Sluckin and T.A.L. Ziman.                                                           J. Phys. (Paris) 49, 567-76.

48. A Potts Model for the Herringbone Transition.
T.J. Sluckin.                                                                                          J.Phys A (Math and General) 21, 1415-22.

49. Computer Simulation of Polysdispersed Liquids with density and temperature dependent distributions.
M.R. Stapleton, D.J. Tildesley, T.J. Sluckin and N. Quirke.           J. Phys. Chem. 92, 4788-86.

50. Macrocrystal phases in charged colloidal suspensions.
G.F. Kendrick, T.J. Sluckin and M.J. Grimson.                                Europhysics Lett. , 567-72.

51. Hedgehog structures in nematic and magnetic systems.
N. Schopohl and T.J. Sluckin.                                                        J. Phys. (France) 49, 1097-1101.

52. Systematics of wetting and layering phenomena in smectic materials.
Z. Pawlowska, G.F. Kventsel and T.J. Sluckin.                            Phys. Rev. A38, 5342-51.


1989
53. Polydispersity in Liquid Crystal Systems.
T.J. Sluckin.                                                                                        Liquid Crystals 6, 111-31.



1990
54. Wetting Phenomena and Colloidal Aggregation in Binary Mixtures.
T.J. Sluckin.                                                                                         Phys. Rev. A41, 960-5.

55. Wetting and Capillary Condensation in Liquid Crystal Systems.
T.J. Sluckin and A. Poniewierski.                                                     Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 179, 349-64.



1991
56. Nematic, Smectic A and Smectic C ordering in a system of hard spherocylinders.
A. Poniewierski and T.J. Sluckin.                                                      Mol. Phys. 73, 199-206.

57. Phase diagram for a system of hard spherocylinders.
A. Poniewierski and T.J. Sluckin.                                                       Phys. Rev. A.43, 6837-42.

58. Doping-induced Anchoring Transitions at Liquid Crystal Surfaces.
P.I.C Teixeira and T.J. Sluckin.                                                        Proceedings of 13th World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematics
                                                                                                             (ed. R. Vichnevetsky and J.J.H. Miller), 789.


1992
59. Monte Carlo Studies of Random Anisotropy Magnets.
D.R. Denholm, B.D. Rainford and T.J. Sluckin                                J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 104 103.

60. Density Functional Theory of Liquid Crystal Phases.
A.Poniewierski and T.J. Sluckin.                                                        Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 212, 61-75.

61. Random Anisotropy Magnets.
T.J. Sluckin, D.R. Denholm and B.D. Rainford.                                Acta Physica Polonica B23, 219-43.

62. Microscopic theory of anchoring transitions at the surfaces of pure liquid crystals and their mixtures:
I. The Fowler approximation.
P.I.C Teixeira and T.J. Sluckin.                                                           J. Chem. Phys. 64, 1498-1509.

63. Microscopic theory of anchoring transitions at the surfaces of pure liquid crystals and their mixtures:
II. The effect of adsorption.
P.I.C Teixeira and T.J. Sluckin.                                                        J. Chem. Phys. 64, 1510-25.

64. Statistical mechanics of two dimensional vesicles.
R.E. Norman, G.C. Barker and T.J. Sluckin.                                    J. de Physique II, 2,1363-76.


1993
65. Landau-de Gennes theory of anchoring transitions at a nematic liquid crystal-substrate interface.
P.I.C Teixeira , T.J. Sluckin and D.E. Sullivan                                Liquid Crystals 14, 1243-1252.


66. Molecular theory of order electricity.

M.A. Osipov and T.J. Sluckin.                                                       J. de Physique II 3, 793-812.


67. Monte Carlo studies of two dimensional random anisotropy magnets.

D.R. Denholm and T.J. Sluckin.                                                    Phys. Rev. B 48, 901-12.


68. Effect of Smectic A elastic properties on the screw dislocation core structure.

S. Kralj and T.J. Sluckin.                                                                Znanstvena Revija (Slovenia) 2, 131-44.


69. A model calculation of the surface elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal.
P.I.C Teixeira , V.M. Pergamenshchik and T.J. Sluckin.            Mol. Phys. 80, 1339-57.

70. Distortions induced by the K13 surface-like elastic term in a thin nematic film.

V.M. Pergamenshchik, P.I.C Teixeira and T.J. Sluckin.            Phys. Rev. E 48, 1265-71.


71. Core structure of a screw disclination in smectic A liquid crystals.

S. Kralj and T.J. Sluckin.                                                            Phys. Rev. E 48, 3244-7


1994
72. Landau-de Gennes theory of the chevron structure in a Smectic A liquid crystal.
S. Kralj and T.J. Sluckin.                                                            Phys. Rev. E50, 2940-51.


73. Scaling of confined membranes and interfaces.

R.E. Norman, A.O. Parry and T.J. Sluckin,                             J. Phys. A 27, 5089-5100.


74. Ferroelectric instability in semi-infinite liquid crystalline polymers of directed dipolar chains.

E.M. Terentjev, M.A. Osipov and T.J. Sluckin.                    J. Phys. A27, 7047-60


1995

75. Anchoring transitions at liquid crystal surfaces.
T.J. Sluckin.                                                                                Physica A213, 105-9.

76. Monte Carlo simulation of the hedgehog defect in spin systems.
C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, F. Semeria, T.J. Sluckin and C. Zannoni.        J. Phys. II France 5, 427-36.

77. Landau-de Gennes theory of the core structure of a screw dislocation in Smectic A liquid crystals.
S. Kralj and T.J. Sluckin.                                                            Liquid Crystals, 18, 887-902. 

78. Viscosity coefficients of smectics C*.
M.A. Osipov, T.J. Sluckin and E.M. Terentjev.                    Liquid Crystals 19, 197-206.


1996
79. Scattering of electromagnetic radiation in amorphous materials.

C.J. Walden and T.J. Sluckin.                                            ICI research report on Strategic Research Fund grant 197.

80. The random anisotropy nematic spin model
D.J. Cleaver, S. Kralj, T.J. Sluckin and M.P. Allen.
in Liquid Crystals in Complex Geometries, ed. G.P. Crawford and S. Zumer (Taylor and Francis, London) pp 467-82.

81. Simulating Hunter-Gatherer Colonization of the Americas.
J. Steele, T.J. Sluckin, D.R. Denholm and C.S. Gamble.
Analecta Praehistorica Leidensis 28 223-7. Interfacing the past; computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology CAA vol. 1, ed. H. Kamermans and K. Fennema.

82. Kinetics of the nematic liquid crystal-isotropic interface.
V. Popa-Nita and T.J. Sluckin.                                               J. Phys. (Paris). II 6 , 873-884.

83. Oblique anchoring at the free nematic surface.
F.N. Braun, T.J. Sluckin, E. Velasco and L. Mederos.        Phys. Rev. E 53, 706-13.

84. Molecular theory of smectic C liquid crystals.
E. Velasco, L. Mederos and T.J. Sluckin.                           Liquid Crystals 20, 399-410.

85. Effective medium theory of polymer dispersed liquid crystal droplets: I. Spherical droplets.
V. Yu. Reshetnyak, T.J. Sluckin and S.J. Cox.                   J. Phys. D (Applied Physics) 29 , 2459-65
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86. Landau-de Gennes theory of the chevron structure in a smectic liquid crystal.
N. Vaupotic, S. Kralj, M. Copic and T. J. Sluckin.            Phys. Rev. E 54 , 3783-92.

87. Microscopic calculation of the surface tension of nematic liquid crystals.
F.N. Braun, T.J. Sluckin, E. Velasco and L. Mederos.
in International Liquid Crystal Workshop: Surface Phenomena,            (ed. E.I. Rumtsev and M.G. Tomilin), Proc. SPIE 2731, 16-19

88. Director distortion in a nematic wetting layer.
F.N. Braun, T.J. Sluckin and E. Velasco.                           J. Phys. C (Condensed Matter) 8, 2741-54.
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1997
89. The topological microstructure of defects in liquid crystals.
P. Biscari, G. Guidone Peroli and T.J. Sluckin.                   Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 292 , 91-101.
also in Festschrift to A. Saupe
ed: P. Cladis and P. Palffy-Muhoray (Gordon and Breach Science publishers).

90. Influence of permanent molecular dipoles on surface anchoring of nematic liquid crystals.
M.A. Osipov and T.J. Sluckin.                                               Phys. Rev E 55 , 464-76.

91. Statics and kinetics of the nematic-isotropic interface: effects of biaxiality
V. Popa-Nita, T.J. Sluckin and A.A. Wheeler.                    J. Phys. (Paris) II 7 , 1225-43.
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92. Effective medium theory of polymer dispersed liquid crystal droplets II. Partially ordered bipolar droplets.
V. Yu. Reshetnyak, T.J. Sluckin and S.J. Cox                    J. Phys. D (Applied Physics) 30, 3253-66.
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1998

93. Effective medium theory of light scattering in PDLC films.
S.J. Cox, T.J. Sluckin and V.Yu. Reshetnyak.                    J. Phys. D (Applied Physics)  31, 1611-25

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94. Theory of dielectric and optical properties of PDLC films.

S.J. Cox, V.Yu. Reshetnyak and T.J. Sluckin.                    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 320 301-19

95. Theoretical study of the anomalous surface tension properties of liquid crystals
Y. Martinez-Raton, E. Velasco, A.M. Somoza, L. Mederos and T.J. Sluckin        J. Chem. Phys. 108, 2583-2593.

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96. Landau-de Gennes theory of the surface stabilised SmC cell II: phase structure near TAC.
N. Vaupotic, S. Kralj, M. Copic and T. J. Sluckin.                Phys. Rev. E 57, 5651-9

97. Modelling Palaeoindian dispersals.
T.J.M. Steele, J. Adams and T.J. Sluckin                               World Archaeology 30 286-305

98. Dynamics of chevron structure formation
A.N. Shalaginov, L.D. Hazelwood and T.J. Sluckin            Phys. Rev. E 58, 7455-64
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99. Sir Charles Frank (1911-98): Historical Perspectives on the Development of Liquid Crystal Continuum Theory
T.J. Sluckin                                                                                Liquid Crystals Today 8, No.3 pp 1-5
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1999
100. Effects of group size and memory on the evolution of cooperation.
S.J. Cox, T.J. Sluckin and J. Steele                                        Current Anthropology  40, 369-76
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101. Dynamics of chevron formation II: permeation-dominated phenomena.
A.N. Shalaginov, L.D. Hazelwood and T.J. Sluckin.             Phys. Rev. E60 , 1199-1209
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102. Traveling wave relaxation in elongated liquid crystal cells.
R.H. Self, C.P. Please and T.J. Sluckin.                                    Phys. Rev. E60, 5029-32
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2000
103. Liquid crystals: physics and technology.
T.J. Sluckin.,                                                                                   Contemporary Physics 41, 37-56
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104. Estimating the rate of paleo-Indian expansion into South America.
James Steele, Clive Gamble and Tim Sluckin.  in  Proceedings of 1995(!) AEA conference, Bradford}, eds. T. O'Connor and R. Nicholson (Oxbow books)
(to be published sometime eventually... !)

105. Periodic layer slipping in a sheared smectic A cell.
N.J. Mottram, T.J. Sluckin,  S.J. Elston and M.J. Towler            Mol. Crys.Liq. Cryst. (to be published)
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106. Defect-induced melting in nematic liquid crystals.
N.J. Mottram and T.J. Sluckin.                                                        Liquid Crystals (to be published)
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