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cond-mat.soft2009★ 13 cited
Stability and distortions of liquid crystal order in a cell with a heterogeneous substrate
Quan Zhang, Leo Radzihovsky
We study stability and distortions of liquid crystal nematic order in a cell with a random heterogeneous substrate. Modeling this system as a bulk xy model with quenched disorder c…
cond-mat.soft2009★ 18 cited
Liquid crystal cells with "dirty" substrates
Leo Radzihovsky, Quan Zhang
We explore liquid crystal order in a cell with a "dirty" substrate imposing a random surface pinning. Modeling such systems by a random-field xy-model with surface heterogeneity, w…