Equilibrium confocal textures in a smectic--A cell
Summary: We study the textures of smectic-\(A\) liquid crystals consisting of curved, but strictly equidistant lamellae. Assuming translational symmetry, we can generate them from a single curve. The free energy is a nontrivial functional of it. We learn how to derive the equilibrium equation for this curve, when the texture is confined between two parallel plates, which exert a weak anchoring on the orientation of the lamellae, but do not interfere directly with their position. Finally, we describe an instability that may arise in the cell when the anchoring conditions on two plates are antagonistic.
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- Modelling smectics in confined geometries
- Smectic liquid crystals as continua with latent microstructure
- Swelling and tilting in smectic layers
- Stability of equilibrium states in finite samples of smectic C* liquid crystals
- Smectic A liquid crystal configurations with interface defects
- On smectic-A liquid crystals in an electrostatic field
- Phase transitions in nematics: textures with tactoids and disclinations
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