On the Microscopic Origin of Cholesteric Pitch

Details On the Microscopic Origin of Cholesteric Pitch On the Microscopic Origin of Cholesteric Pitch

1996-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9607084v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 1476; 2867 (erratum)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

RevTeX 3.0, 4 pages, one included eps figure. Published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1476

We present a microscopic analysis of the instability of the nematic phase to
chirality when molecular chirality is introduced perturbatively. We show that
previously neglected short-range biaxial correlations play a crucial role in
determining the cholesteric pitch. We propose an order parameter which
quantifies the chirality of a molecule.

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