Chiral and Antichiral Order in Bent-Core Liquid Crystals

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2003-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302309v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 165501 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, including 4 postscript figures, uses REVTeX 4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.165501

Recent experiments have found a bent-core liquid crystal in which the layer chirality alternates from layer to layer, giving a racemic or "antichiral" material, even though the molecules are uniformly chiral. To explain this effect, we map the liquid crystal onto an Ising model, analogous to a model for chiral order in polymers. We calculate the phase diagram for this model, and show that it has a second-order phase transition between antichiral order and homogeneous chiral order. We discuss how this transition can be studied by further chemical synthesis or by doping experiments.

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