Analysis of Nonlocal Electrostatic Effects in Chiral Smectic C Liquid Crystals

DOI10.1137/050641120zbMath1121.35134OpenAlexW1978123877MaRDI QIDQ3427806

M. Carme Calderer, Jinhae Park

Publication date: 27 March 2007

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://purl.umn.edu/4284

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionnonlocal effectsGinzburg-Landau energyenergy minimizerferroelectricityvortex tubeselectrostatic self-interactionspontaneous polarizationhelical filamentssmectic layers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) Variational methods involving nonlinear operators (47J30) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Polar materials (74A35) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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