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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
卷 105, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.024708
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1409658]
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior-Brazil (CAPES)
Recent theoretical research has developed a framework to understand director deformations and modulated phases in nematic liquid crystals. Four fundamental director deformation modes are considered, including a fourth mode related to saddle-splay. The research shows that this mode can induce spontaneous cholesteric or splay nematic phases.
Recent theoretical research has developed a general framework to understand director deformations and modulated phases in nematic liquid crystals. In this framework, there are four fundamental director deformation modes: twist, bend, splay, and a fourth mode Delta related to saddle-splay. The first three of these modes are known to induce modulated phases. Here, we consider modulated phases induced by the fourth mode. We develop a theory for tetrahedral order in liquid crystals, and show that it couples to the Delta mode of director deformation. Because of geometric frustration, the Delta mode cannot fill space by itself, but rather must be accompanied by twist or splay. Hence, it may induce a spontaneous cholesteric phase, with either handedness, or a splay nematic phase.
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