Unpublished Paper
Elliptic Phases: A Study of the Nonlinear Elasticity of Twist-Grain Boundaries
Physical Review Letters
(2006)
Abstract
We develop an explicit and tractable representation of a twist-grain-boundary phase of a smectic-A liquid crystal. This allows us to calculate the interaction energy between grain boundaries and the relative contributions from the bending and compression deformations. We discuss the special stability of the π/2 grain boundaries and discuss the relation of this structure to the Schwarz D surface.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2006
Comments
Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.137801
Citation Information
Christian Santangelo and Randall D. Kamien. "Elliptic Phases: A Study of the Nonlinear Elasticity of Twist-Grain Boundaries" Physical Review Letters (2006) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christian_santangelo/16/