Iterated Moire Maps and Braiding of Chiral Polymer Crystals

Preprint

9 November 1994

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9411039

Abstract

In the hexagonal columnar phase of chiral polymers a bias towards cholesteric twist competes with braiding along an average direction. When the chirality is strong, screw dislocations proliferate, leading to either a tilt grain boundary phase or a new "moire state" with twisted bond order. Polymer trajectories in the plane perpendicular to their average direction are described by iterated moire maps of remarkable complexity.

Keywords

ITERATED MOIRE MAPS
CHIRAL POLYMERS
GRAIN BOUNDARY
DISLOCATIONS
MOIRE MAPS
BRAIDING
TWISTED

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Version 1, 1994-11-09, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 74 (13), 2499.

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