2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Geometric Frustration in Twist-Bend Nematic Droplets
Joseph Pollard, Richard G. Morris
Liquid crystals formed of bent-core molecules are exotic materials that exhibit the twist-bend nematic phase. This arises when an energetic preference for nonzero local bend distor…
cond-mat.soft2024
Defect Dynamics in Cholesterics: Beyond the Peach-Koehler Force
Joseph Pollard, Richard G. Morris
The Peach-Koehler force between disclination lines was originally formulated in the study of crystalline solids, and has since been adopted to provide a notion of interactions betw…