Boundary Effects in Chiral Polymer Hexatics
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❄️ cond-mat.soft
cond-mat.stat-mech
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effectsphaseboundarychiralhexaticlockedpolymeractually
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Boundary effects in liquid-crystalline phases can be large due to long-ranged orientational correlations. We show that the chiral hexatic phase can be locked into an apparent three-dimensional N+6 phase via such effects. Simple numerical estimates suggest that the recently discovered "polymer hexatic" may actually be this locked phase.
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