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Spiraling Defect Cores in Chromonic Hedgehogs
Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga
An elastic quartic twist theory has recently been proposed for chromonic liquid crystals, intended to overcome the paradoxical conclusions encountered by the classical Oseen-Frank…
Model for Photoresponsive Nematic Elastomers
André M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
We study the equilibria of a photoresponsive nematic elastomer ribbon within a continuum theory that builds upon the statistical mechanics model put forward by Corbett and Warner […
Paradoxes for Chromonic Liquid Crystal Droplets
Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga
Chromonic liquid crystals constitute a novel lyotropic phase, whose elastic properties have so far been modeled within the classical Oseen-Frank theory, provided that the twist con…
Chain Paradoxes
Epifanio G. Virga
For nearly two centuries the dynamics of chains have offered examples of paradoxical theoretical predictions. Here we propose a theory for the dissipative dynamics of one-dimension…
Comment on "Classical Mechanics of Nonconservative Systems"
Epifanio G. Virga
A Comment on the Letter by C. R. Galley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 174301 (2013).
Elasticity of Twist-Bend Nematic Phases
Epifanio G. Virga
The ground state of twist-bend nematic liquid crystals is a heliconical molecular arrangement in which the nematic director precesses uniformly about an axis, making a fixed angle…