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arxiv: 1907.08361 · v1 · pith:CYNAJ7COnew · submitted 2019-07-19 · ❄️ cond-mat.soft

Surface Anchoring Energy of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

classification ❄️ cond-mat.soft
keywords surfaceenergyanchoringcholestericcrystalsliquidtermallowed
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In this paper, we propose a suitable surface energy expression for cholesteric liquid crystals. We show that there exists a symmetry allowed term for chiral nematics that doesn't appear in the traditional Rapini-Papoular surface energy form. We discuss some consequences of this new surface anchoring term.

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