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胆甾壳中的拓扑相和曲率驱动的斑图形成

Topological Phases and Curvature-Driven Pattern Formation in Cholesteric Shells

Giuseppe Negro, Livio Nicola Carenza, Giuseppe Gonnella, Davide Marenduzzo, Enzo Orlandini

摘要:

本文研究了不同几何形状的胆甾相液晶壳层的相行为。我们比较了切向和没有锚定在表面的情况下,集中在前一种情况下,这导致了竞争之间的内在趋势的扭曲和锚定自由能,抑制它。这些通常由半skyrmions的表面的准结晶或无定形镶嵌组成,其分别在较低和较大的壳尺寸下稳定。对于椭球壳,镶嵌中的缺陷与局部曲率耦合,并且根据壳的尺寸,它们或者迁移到极点或者均匀地分布在表面上。对于环形壳,在局部曲率的表面的变化稳定的异质相,在那里的半skyrmions的六角晶格共存的双晶或各向同性图案。

英文摘要:

We study the phase behaviour of cholesteric liquid crystal shells with different geometries. We compare the cases of tangential and no anchoring at the surface, focussing on the former case, which leads to a competition between the intrinsic tendency of the cholesteric to twist and the anchoring free energy which suppresses it. We then characterise the topological phases arising close to the isotropic-cholesteric transition. These typically consist of quasi-crystalline or amorphous tessellations of the surface by half-skyrmions, which are stable at lower and larger shell size respectively. For ellipsoidal shells, defects in the tessellation couple to local curvature, and according to the shell size they either migrate to the poles or distribute uniformly on the surface. For toroidal shells, the variations in the local curvature of the surface stabilises heterogeneous phases where cholesteric or isotropic patterns coexist with hexagonal lattices of half-skyrmions.

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