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arxiv: cond-mat/0212206 · v1 · submitted 2002-12-10 · ❄️ cond-mat.soft · cond-mat.dis-nn· cond-mat.mtrl-sci· cond-mat.stat-mech

Thermal fluctuations and anomalous elasticity of homogeneous nematic elastomers

classification ❄️ cond-mat.soft cond-mat.dis-nncond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.stat-mech
keywords elasticityelastomersnematicanisotropicanomalousdimensionsfluctuationshomogeneous
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We present a unified formulation of a rotationally invariant nonlinear elasticity for a variety of spontaneously anisotropic phases, and use it to study thermal fluctuations in nematic elastomers and spontaneously anisotropic gels. We find that in a thermodynamic limit homogeneous nematic elastomers are universally incompressible, are characterized by a universal ratio of shear moduli, and exhibit an anomalous elasticity controlled by a nontrivial low temperature fixed point perturbative in D=3-epsilon dimensions. In three dimensions, we make predictions that are asymptotically exact.

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