A minimal Landau model of coupled nematic and polar order yields three phases, claimed new critical exponents, and strings that confine same-sign +1/2 nematic defects.
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Phase diagram, confining strings, and a new universality class in nematopolar matter
A minimal Landau model of coupled nematic and polar order yields three phases, claimed new critical exponents, and strings that confine same-sign +1/2 nematic defects.