Landau-De Gennes theory of nematic liquid crystals: the Oseen-Frank limit and beyond
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Publication:982287
DOI10.1007/S00205-009-0249-2zbMATH Open1304.76007arXiv0812.3131OpenAlexW3105859499MaRDI QIDQ982287FDOQ982287
Authors: Apala Majumdar, Arghir Zarnescu 
Publication date: 6 July 2010
Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study global minimizers of a continuum Landau-De Gennes energy functional for nematic liquid crystals, in three-dimensional domains, subject to uniaxial boundary conditions. We analyze the physically relevant limit of small elastic constant and show that global minimizers converge strongly, in , to a global minimizer predicted by the Oseen-Frank theory for uniaxial nematic liquid crystals with constant order parameter. Moreover, the convergence is uniform in the interior of the domain, away from the singularities of the limiting Oseen-Frank global minimizer. We obtain results on the rate of convergence of the eigenvalues and the regularity of the eigenvectors of the Landau-De Gennes global minimizer. We also study the interplay between biaxiality and uniaxiality in Landau-De Gennes global energy minimizers and obtain estimates for various related quantities such as the biaxiality parameter and the size of admissible strongly biaxial regions.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3131
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