Elastic energy for reflection-symmetric topologies

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/11/008zbMATH Open1099.82019arXivmath-ph/0507055OpenAlexW2019653098MaRDI QIDQ3379376FDOQ3379376

Authors: Apala Majumdar, J. M. Robbins, Maxim Zyskin 

Publication date: 6 April 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Nematic liquid crystals in a polyhedral domain, a prototype for bistable displays, may be described by a unit-vector field subject to tangent boundary conditions. Here we consider the case of a rectangular prism. For configurations with reflection-symmetric topologies, we derive a new lower bound for the one-constant elastic energy. For certain topologies, called conformal and anticonformal, the lower bound agrees with a previous result. For the remaining topologies, called nonconformal, the new bound is an improvement. For nonconformal topologies we derive an upper bound, which differs from the lower bound by a factor depending only on the aspect ratios of the prism.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0507055

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zbMATH Keywords

nematic liquid crystalselastic energydirector fieldtopologies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Connections of general topology with other structures, applications (54H99)

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