The saturn ring effect in nematic liquid crystals with external field: effective energy and hysteresis

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العنوان: The saturn ring effect in nematic liquid crystals with external field: effective energy and hysteresis
المؤلفون: Alouges, François, Chambolle, Antonin, Stantejsky, Dominik
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs, 35B40, 35J50, 49J45, 49S05, 76A15
الوصف: In this work we consider the Landau-de Gennes model for liquid crystals with an external electromagnetic field to model the occurrence of the saturn ring effect under the assumption of rotational equivariance. After a rescaling of the energy, a variational limit is derived. Our analysis relies on precise estimates around the singularities and the study of a radial auxiliary problem in regions, where a continuous director field exists. Studying the limit problem, we explain the transition between the dipole and saturn ring configuration and the occurrence of a hysteresis phenomenon, giving a rigorous explanation of what was conjectured previously by [H. Stark, Eur. Phys. J. B 10, 311-321 (1999)].
Comment: 42 pages, 6 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-021-01674-z
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06238
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2005.06238
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv