Fluctuations in the Low-Temperature Phase of a Model Cholesteric Liquid Crystal
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 8 (4) , 2017-2020
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.8.2017
Abstract
The fluctuations in a generalized version of Lubensky's spin model for cholesterics are shown to still diverge (for an infinite system). The generalization consists in allowing the skew term of the interaction Hamiltonian to include a dependence on the directions of the "short" molecular axes. Some such dependence is expected in molecules of real cholesterics.Keywords
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