The role of Painleve II in predicting new liquid crystal self-assembly mechanisms

DOI10.1007/S00205-017-1162-8MaRDI QIDQ1702441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. C. Troy

Publication date 28 February 2018

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-017-1162-8

zbMATH Keywords

asymptoticsnematic liquid crystalsPainleve equationshooting method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Liquid crystals (76A15) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Review text

The Painleve II equation \(w_{zz}=2w^3+zw+\alpha\) with a constant \(\alpha<0\) appears in description of nematic liquid crystals as well as in the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. A new class of solutions, called shadow kinks is studied using topological shooting method. These are sign changing solutions which satisfy \(w(z)\sim -\sqrt{|z|/2}\) as \(z\to-\infty\), and \(w(z)\sim -\frac{\alpha}{z}\) as \(z\to\infty\). They play a critical role in the prediction of a new class of topological defects, one dimensional shadow kinks and two dimensional shadow vortices, in light-matter interaction experiments on nematic liquid crystals.

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