Switching Mechanism in the $B_{1RevTilted}$ Phase of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals

DOI10.1137/17M1130848zbMath1401.76024MaRDI QIDQ4686630

Xin Yang Lu, Tiziana Giorgi, Sookyung Joo, Carlos J. García-Cervera

Publication date: 4 October 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

energy minimizationgradient flow\(\Gamma\)-convergenceliquid crystalsbent-core moleculescolumnar phases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49J99)

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