Phase Transition between the Cholesteric and Twist Grain Boundary C Phases

Details Phase Transition between the Cholesteric and Twist Grain Boundary C Phases Phase Transition between the Cholesteric and Twist Grain Boundary C Phases

1997-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9711024v1

Phys. Rev. E 57, 574 (1998)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Phys. Rev. E, to be publ; 24 pages, RevTeX + 3 ps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.57.574

The upper critical temperature Tc2 for the phase transition between the Cholesteric phase (N*) and the Twist Grain Boundary C phase with the layer inclination tilted to the pitch axis (TGBct) in thermotropic liquid crystals is determined by the mean field Chen-Lubensky approach. We show that the N*-TGBct phase transition is split in two with the appearance of either the TGBA or the TGB2q phase in a narrow temperature interval below Tc2. The latter phase is novel in being superposed from two degenerate TGBct phases with different (left and right) layers inclinations to the pitch axis.

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