On the tensor vs. the vector character of the director field in a nematic liquid crystal

G. Van Der Zwan

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1988, vol. 150, issue 2, 299-309

Abstract: The description of the director field of the nematic phase of a liquid crystalline material is investigated. It is shown that utilizing a tensor field to represent the director has exactly the same physical consequences as the more commonly used vector field. Furthermore it is proven that a nematic tensor field can always be replaced by the square of a vector field for which the Frank-Oseen expression holds.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(88)90153-7

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