AN ACTIVE STATE IN LYOTROPIC NEMATICS AND THE GAUGE FIELD OF THEIR DEFECTS
https://doi.org/ 10.18384/2310-7251-2018-4-84-91
Abstract
Lyotropic nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) exhibiting a self-organizing flow (so called ‘active nematics’) are discussed within the framework of the lattice gauge field theory. The evolution of topological defects in such systems is mutually caused by the flow regime. It is shown that the ‘nematic-isotropic’ phase transition in active NLCs may differ from that in conventional NLCs.
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Liliia V. Elnikova
A.I. Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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