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Title Analysis of a de Gennes-Landau model for bent-core liquid crystals

Name Tiziana Giorgi
Country USA
Email tgiorgi@math.nmsu.edu
Co-Author(s) Yousef Feras
Submit Time 2014-02-06 14:31:38
Session
Special Session 71: Recent progress in spintronics: Experiment, theory and simulation
Contents
We analyze a de Gennes-Landau energy functional, which Vaupoti\^c and \^Copi\^c introduced to describe polarization modulation instabilities in bent-core molecules liquid crystals. We consider existence of energy minimizers for the full model, and use Gamma-convergence to study the switching mechanisms in the large limit domain in a simplified model.