Superconductivity Analogies, Ferroelectricity and Flow Defects in Liquid Crystals

M. Carme Calderer ()
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M. Carme Calderer: University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics

A chapter in Recent Progress in Computational and Applied PDES, 2002, pp 55-72 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Liquid crystal phases present a large variety of physical phenomena often leading to interesting applications. Here we address issues involving nematic and smectic phases, from the point of view of modeling and analysis. These include superconductivity analogies of the phase transition from nematic to smectic A*, ferro-electricity of the smectic C* and flow defects in some special regimes. Molecular chirality plays an important role in such behaviors.

Keywords: Liquid Crystal; Weak Solution; Nematic Liquid Crystal; Young Measure; Polymeric Liquid Crystal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0113-8_4

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