Static problems of the chiral smectic and bent core liquid crystals focusing on the role of the spontaneous polarization
Presenter
July 23, 2008
Keywords:
- Mathematical modeling
MSC:
- 93A30
Abstract
In this talk, we first discuss mathematical modeling of
ferroelectric liquid crystals with existence results. With a special
geometry, we consider a one dimensional problem with an applied field.
We present existence of finitely many equilibrium branches and nested
hysteresis loops between the polarization and applied fields, which
show finer structures of ferroelectric materials.