Casimir-like interactions and surface anchoring duality in bookshelf geometry of smectic-A liquid crystals-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Casimir-like interactions and surface anchoring duality in bookshelf geometry of smectic-A liquid crystals

Published:2019 Issue:10 Volume:15 Page:2216-2222
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Karimi Pour Haddadan Fahimeh¹²³⁴^ORCID,Naji Ali⁵⁶⁷⁴^ORCID,Podgornik Rudolf⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Physics

2. Kharazmi University

3. Tehran 15815-3587

4. Iran

5. School of Physics

6. Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)

7. Tehran 19395-5531

8. School of Physical Sciences and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences

9. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

10. Beijing 100049

11. China

12. CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics

Abstract

We analyze the transverse intersubstrate Casimir-like force, arising as a result of thermal fluctuations of the liquid crystalline layers of a smectic-A film confined between two planar substrates in a bookshelf geometry, in which the equidistant smectic layers are placed perpendicular to the bounding surfaces.

Funder

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/SM/C8SM02328J

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