Wedge disclinations as models of curvature walls in smectic A liquid crystals |
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Authors: | L Lejček |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 180 40 Prague 8, Czechoslovakia |
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Abstract: | The displacement of layers caused by a wedge disclination and the interaction energy of a wedge disclination pair in a smectic A liquid crystal is determined. Wedge disclinations are used to model and to discuss curvature walls (e.g. chevron structures of twin walls ) observed experimentally in smectic A liquid crystals.Dedicated to my teacher Franti ek Kroupa on the occasion of his 65th birthday. |
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