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Topological Defects as Nucleation Points of the Nematic--Isotropic Phase Transition in Liquid Crystal Shells
Yucen Han, Jan Lagerwall, Apala Majumdar
The transition from a nematic to an isotropic state in a self-closing spherical liquid crystal shell with tangential alignment is a stimulating phenomenon to investigate, as the to…
Stochastic effects on solution landscapes for nematic liquid crystals
James Luke Dalby, Apala Majumdar, Yue Wu +1
We study the effects of additive and multiplicative noise on the solution landscape of nematic liquid crystals confined to a square domain within the Landau-de Gennes framework, as…
The Radial Hedgehog Solution in the Landau-de Gennes Theory: Effects of the Bulk Potentials
Sophie McLauchlan, Yucen Han, Matthias Langer +1
We study equilibrium configurations in spherical droplets of nematic liquid crystal with strong radial anchoring, within the Landau-de Gennes theory with a sixth-order bulk potenti…
Dispersion of Multiferroic Nanoparticles in a Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal: Experimental and Theoretical Study
Dhananjoy Mandal, Yiwei Wang, Supreet Kaur +3
A novel nanocomposite system has been prepared by dispersing multiferroic bismuth ferrite nanoparticles (BiFeO) in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal (8-F-OH) that exhibits cyb…
A Reduced Landau-de Gennes Study for Nematic Equilibria in Three-Dimensional Prisms
Yucen Han, Baoming Shi, Lei Zhang +1
We model nematic liquid crystal configurations inside three-dimensional prisms, with a polygonal cross-section and Dirichlet boundary conditions on all prism surfaces. We work in a…
Hierarchies of Critical Points of a Landau-de Gennes Free Energy on Three-Dimensional Cuboids
Baoming Shi, Yucen Han, Jianyuan Yin +2
We investigate critical points of a Landau-de Gennes (LdG) free energy in three-dimensional (3D) cuboids, that model nematic equilibria. We develop a hybrid saddle dynamics-based a…