The Freedericksz transition in a spatially varying magnetic field
Soft Condensed Matter
2021-04-21 v1
Abstract
Much is known about the Freedericksz transition induced by uniform electric and magnetic fields in nematic liquid crystals. Here we study the effects of a spatially varying field on the transition. We study the response of a nematic to a magnetic field with cylindrical symmetry, and find that since the field magnitude varies in the plane of the cell, the transition vanishes.
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@article{arxiv.2104.10014,
title = {The Freedericksz transition in a spatially varying magnetic field},
author = {Tianyi Guo and Xiaoyu Zheng and Peter Palffy-Muhoray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.10014},
year = {2021}
}
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11 pages, 9 figures