Low-Temperature Phase of Infinite Cholesterics
- 24 July 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 29 (4) , 206-209
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.29.206
Abstract
Fluctuations are shown to dephase an infinite cholesteric to a state in which the molecules are aligned preferentially in a plane perpendicular to a pitch axis, but in which all angles in that plane are probed with equal probability. Correlation functions in this state are calculated.Keywords
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