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Elongation and fluctuations of semi-flexible polymers in a nematic solvent
Z. Dogic, J. Zhang, A. W. C. Lau +7
We directly visualize single polymers with persistence lengths ranging from to 16 m, dissolved in the nematic phase of rod-like {\it fd} virus. Polymers with suffi…
Quantum Theory of Chiral Interactions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
A. S. Issaenko, A. B. Harris, T. C. Lubensky
We study the effective chiral interaction between molecules arising from quantum dispersion interactions within a model in which a) the dominant excited states of a molecule form a…
Topological Inclusions in 2D Smectic-C Films
David Pettey, T. C. Lubensky, Darren Link
In thin films of smectic-C liquid crystals, localized regions containing additional smectic layers form circular inclusions that carry a topological charge. Such inclusions nucleat…
Chirality in Liquid Crystals: from Microscopic Origins to Macroscopic Structure
T. C. Lubensky, A. B. Harris, Randall D. Kamien +1
Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple cholesteric phase to the twist-grain-boundary phases, and it is responsible for interest…
Kosterlitz-Thouless Transitions on Fluctuating Surfaces
Jeong-Man Park, T. C. Lubensky
We investigate the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition for hexatic order on a free fluctuating membrane and derive both a Coulomb gas and a sine-Gordon Hamiltonian to describe it. In th…