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Uniaxial versus biaxial character of nematic equilibria in three dimensions (English)
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15 May 2017
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This work considers the minimization problem for the Landau-de Gennes energy functional \(I[\mathbf{Q}]=\int_{\Omega} \frac{L}{2}|\nabla \mathbf{Q}|^2+f_B(\mathbf{Q})dV\), where the bulk potential depends on a quartic form of the symmetric traceless \(3\times 3\) matrix representing a macroscopic order parameter. It is shown that its global minimizers on 3D simply connected region converges to a limiting harmonic map in such a way that there are points of maximal biaxiality and unaxiality near each singular point of this map.
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energy functional
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anisotropic media
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Landau-de Gennes theory
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harmonic map
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