Model of a disclination core in nematics
作者:
IMMACOLATA SIGILLO,
FRANCESCO GRECO,
GIUSEPPE MARRUCCI,
期刊:
Liquid Crystals
(Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 3
页码: 419-425
ISSN:0267-8292
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1080/026782998207244
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The core structure of a disclination line of strength 1 in uniaxial nematics is determined by using a space-dependent mean-field approach somehow based on the rod-like molecular model. It is shown that, due to distortion, biaxiality arises at all points of the defect core, except at the centre line where symmetry dictates uniaxiality; the orientational distribution of the rod-like molecules is there 'oblate', however. Although, as is well known, the configuration of a 1 defect is stable only under limiting conditions (as compared with either escaping in the axial direction or splitting into two 1/2 lines), the simple example developed here is indicative of a method which can readily be extended to more realistic, if mathematically more complex, situations such as 1/2 lines, layers close to solid boundaries, etc.
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