Numerical calculations of the phase diagram of cubic blue phases in cholesteric liquid crystals.
We study the static properties of cubic blue phases by numerically minimizing the three-dimensional, Landau-de Gennes free energy for a cholesteric liquid crystal close to the isotropic-cholesteric phase transition. Thus we are able to refine the powerful but approximate, semianalytic frameworks tha...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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