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LATTICE SPIN SIMULATIONS OF TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS IN NEMATIC FILMS WITH HYBRID SURFACE ALIGNMENTS

Published:2011-05 Issue:05 Volume:22 Page:505-516
ISSN:0129-1831
Container-title:International Journal of Modern Physics C
language:en
Short-container-title:Int. J. Mod. Phys. C

Author:

CHICCOLI CESARE¹,PASINI PAOLO¹,EVANGELISTA LUIZ ROBERTO²,TEIXEIRA DE SOUZA RODOLFO²,ZANNONI CLAUDIO³

Affiliation:

1. INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy

2. Departamento de Física Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Avenida Colombo 5790-87020-900 Maringá (PR), Brazil

3. Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica ed Inorganica, Viale Risorgimento 4, 40136 Bologna, Italy

Abstract

We present a Monte Carlo study of the effects of elastic anisotropy on the textures of nematic films with specific random hybrid boundary conditions. The polarized microscopy images and their evolution are analyzed in uniaxial systems for different values of the elastic constants.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd

Subject

Computational Theory and Mathematics,Computer Science Applications,General Physics and Astronomy,Mathematical Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Link

https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S0129183111016403

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