On the Landau-de Gennes elastic energy of a \(Q\)-tensor model for soft biaxial nematics

DOI10.1007/s00332-017-9383-4zbMath1380.82055OpenAlexW2610999289MaRDI QIDQ1685137

Lorenzo Nicolodi, Domenico Mucci

Publication date: 13 December 2017

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-017-9383-4

zbMATH Keywords

symmetry breakingliquid crystalsLandau-de Gennes energy\(\mathbf{Q}\)-tensor theorysoft biaxial nematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Symmetries, equivariance on manifolds (58K70)

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