Figure 1.

Topology of the mean-field phase diagram of Eq. 4. The horizontal axis is the strength γ of the curvature-composition coupling, the vertical axis is the prefactor A of the quadratic term in Eq. 2. There are four distinct thermodynamic phases: a disordered fluid phase spanning the regions f₁ and f₂; the lo phase and the ld phase; and a modulated phase (mod). (Solid lines) Genuine phase transitions; (dashed line) Lifshitz line. In mean-field theory, all lines meet in the Lifshitz point (LP). The point Is marks the critical point of the system without curvature-composition coupling. To see this figure in color, go online.