Paper Info
Title
Boundary Vortex Formation in Polarization-Modulated Orthogonal Smectic Liquid Crystals.
Abstract
We investigate the relaxation of an energy functional that originated in the physics literature to study the bistability of polarization modulated orthogonal smectic phases SmAP(Fmod) of bent-core molecule liquid crystals. We show that the interplay between the mixed boundary conditions and the shape of the sample results in boundary defects. We also analyze the bistable switching due to an applied electric field via gradient flow numerical simulations. Our computations reveal a novel dynamic scenario, where switching is achieved by the formation of two internal vortices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1137/19M1301618
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
bent-core molecules,liquid crystals,boundary vortices,numerical gradient flow
Journal
80
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0036-1399
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos J. Garcia-cervera122.35
Tiziana Giorgi201.35
Sookyung Joo311.38