Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals
Motivated by new experimental observations we generalize the Landau-like approach to include the direct phase transition between isotropic liquid ( I) and heliconical nematic liquid crystal ( NTB) structure. We show that depending on the Landau expansion coefficients, our model allows either direct...
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| Cite this: | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals / E.I. Kats // Физика низких температур. — 2016. — Т. 43, № 1. — С. 7-10. — Бібліогр.: 27 назв. — англ. |
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| description | Motivated by new experimental observations we generalize the Landau-like approach to include the direct phase transition between isotropic liquid ( I) and heliconical nematic liquid crystal ( NTB) structure. We show that depending on the Landau expansion coefficients, our model allows either direct I–NTB transition, or the sequence of the phases I–N–NTB with the classical nematic liquid crystal ( N) sandwiched between the isotropic liquid and heliconical nematic liquid crystal. Which of these two situations is realized depends on how strong is the first order phase transition from the isotropic liquid. If it is strong enough the system undergoes I–N–NTB sequence, and for the very weak first order phase transition I–NTB transformation occurs. Furthermore in the latter case the NTB structure can be biaxial heliconical nematic liquid crystal.
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| spelling | Kats, E.I. 2018-01-19T13:48:39Z 2018-01-19T13:48:39Z 2017 Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals / E.I. Kats // Физика низких температур. — 2016. — Т. 43, № 1. — С. 7-10. — Бібліогр.: 27 назв. — англ. 0132-6414 ACS: 61.30.Cz, 61.30.Gd, 84.37.+q, https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/129347 Motivated by new experimental observations we generalize the Landau-like approach to include the direct phase transition between isotropic liquid ( I) and heliconical nematic liquid crystal ( NTB) structure. We show that depending on the Landau expansion coefficients, our model allows either direct I–NTB transition, or the sequence of the phases I–N–NTB with the classical nematic liquid crystal ( N) sandwiched between the isotropic liquid and heliconical nematic liquid crystal. Which of these two situations is realized depends on how strong is the first order phase transition from the isotropic liquid. If it is strong enough the system undergoes I–N–NTB sequence, and for the very weak first order phase transition I–NTB transformation occurs. Furthermore in the latter case the NTB structure can be biaxial heliconical nematic liquid crystal. This work was funded by Russian Science Foundation
 (grant 14-12-00475). I acknowledge stimulating discussions
 with V.V. Lebedev who inspired this work. en Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України Физика низких температур К 100-летию со дня рождения И.М. Лифшица Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals Article published earlier |
| spellingShingle | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals Kats, E.I. К 100-летию со дня рождения И.М. Лифшица |
| title | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals |
| title_full | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals |
| title_fullStr | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals |
| title_short | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals |
| title_sort | spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in liquid crystals |
| topic | К 100-летию со дня рождения И.М. Лифшица |
| topic_facet | К 100-летию со дня рождения И.М. Лифшица |
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