arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 2407.01740cond-mat.softmath.CA
收藏

与Smectic A接触的活性向列液晶薄膜中的V形条纹图案

Chevron patterns in an active nematic liquid crystal film in contact with Smectic A

M. Carme Calderer, Lingxing Yao, Longhua Zhao, Dmitry Golovaty, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Francesc Sagués

AI总结:

本文研究ATP激活的微管活性向列薄膜与Smectic A液晶接触时的约束机制,建立接触流动模型,通过渐近、线性与非线性分析预测实验观察到的V形条纹图案,并验证了最小能量耗散原理下的结论在实验设置中仍然成立。

摘要:

我们研究了一种新的活性物质约束机制,研究对象为由微管组成、经三磷酸腺苷(ATP)激活的薄层活性向列样品,该样品置于被动液晶化合物8CB平板与水之间。8CB平板保持在低于向列相与Smectic A相之间相变温度的温度下。Smectic A分子在外加磁场作用下水平排列,其质心排列在垂直于磁场的等间距层上。与活性向列的接触促使Smectic平板中产生沿平行于层的方向的流动。该流动方向被传递回活性向列。我们建立了这种接触流动的模型,并从渐近分析、线性分析和非线性分析的角度对实验观察到的图案做出预测。我们在流动的最小能量耗散原理范围内检验了这些结果。为便于解析处理,我们考虑活性向列被约束在两个对称的8CB平板之间,并证明当将底部Smectic A基底替换为水(如实验设置中那样)时,结论仍然成立。

英文摘要:

We study a new mechanism of active matter confinement of a thin, active nematic sample consisting of microtubules, activated by Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), placed between a slab of passive liquid crystal, the compound 8CB, and water. The 8CB slab is kept at a temperature below the phase transition value between the nematic and the smectic A phases. The smectic A molecules are horizontally aligned with an applied magnetic field, with their centers of mass arranged on equally spaced layers perpendicular to the field. The contact with the active nematic prompts flow in the smectic slab, along the direction parallel to the layers. This flow direction is transferred back to the active nematic. We set up a model of such contact flow and make predictions on the experimentally observed pattern, from the point of view of asymptotic, linear and nonlinear analyses. We examine such results within the scope of the principle of minimum energy dissipation of the flow. For analytic convenience, we consider the active nematic confined between two symmetric 8CB slabs, and show that the conclusions still hold when replacing the bottom smectic A substrate with water, as in the experimental setting.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑