Thermal fluctuations and anomalous elasticity of homogeneous nematic elastomers
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❄️ cond-mat.soft
cond-mat.dis-nncond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.stat-mech
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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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