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CONDENSED MATTER
Cascade “melting” of a linear disclination in chiral nematic droplets
O. A. Skaldina, I. I. Klebanovbc, Yu. I. Timirova, E. R. Basyrovaa, V. A. Deleva a Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
b South Ural State University (National Research University), Chelyabinsk, Russia
c South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Abstract:
A new structure of the elastic field of a chiral nematic liquid crystal in a cylindrical capillary with a singularity on the axis of the capillary in the form of a “melted” helical disclination has been obtained experimentally. It has been shown theoretically that the number of cylindrical surfaces, cascades at which a jump of the direction of the director orientation field $\bf n$ by $\pi$ occurs, can be arbitrary. The particular number of cascades depends on the radius $R$ of the cylinder and boundary conditions. An expression for the free energy of the elastic field has been obtained in the one-constant approximation of the continuum theory of liquid crystals.
Received: 28.03.2018 Revised: 11.04.2018
Citation:
O. A. Skaldin, I. I. Klebanov, Yu. I. Timirov, E. R. Basyrova, V. A. Delev, “Cascade “melting” of a linear disclination in chiral nematic droplets”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 107:11 (2018), 728–731; JETP Letters, 107:11 (2018), 695–698
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