On the Landau-de Gennes elastic energy of a Q-tensor model for soft biaxial nematics

DOI10.1007/S00332-017-9383-4zbMATH Open1380.82055OpenAlexW2610999289MaRDI QIDQ1685137FDOQ1685137

Authors: Domenico Mucci, Lorenzo Nicolodi 

Publication date: 13 December 2017

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-017-9383-4

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zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystalssymmetry breakingLandau-de Gennes energy\(\mathbf{Q}\)-tensor theorysoft biaxial nematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Variational inequalities (49J40) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Symmetries, equivariance on manifolds (58K70)

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