Publications (4)
Helicoids in chiral liquid crystals under external fields
G. De Matteis, L. Martina, C. Naya +1
Cholesteric Liquid Crystals (CLCs), subject to externally applied magnetic fields and confined between two parallel planar surfaces with strong homeotropic anchoring conditions, ar…
Skyrmion Tubes in achiral nematic liquid crystals
G. De Matteis, L. Martina, C. Naya +1
We analyze the interaction with uniform external fields of nematic liquid crystals within a recent generalized free-energy posited by Virga and falling in the class of quartic func…
Non-uniform localised distortions in generalised elasticity for liquid crystals
G. De Matteis, L. Martina, C. Naya +1
We analyse a recent generalised free-energy for liquid crystals posited by Virga and falling in the class of quartic functionals in the spatial gradients of the nematic director. W…
Light Scattering by Cholesteric Skyrmions
G. De Matteis, D. Delle Side, L. Martina +1
We study the light scattering by localized quasi planar excitations of a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal known as spherulites. Due to the anisotropic optical properties of the medium an…