Solitons in Liquid Crystals

✍ Scribed by L. Lam, J. Prost (auth.), Lui Lam, Jacques Prost (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Partially Ordered Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Solitons are a well-known and intriguing aspect of nonlinear behavior in a continuous system such as a fluid: a wave propagates through the medium without distortion. Liquid crystals are highly ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. Solitons in liquid crystals (sometimes referred to as "walls") have a wide variety of remarkable properties that are becoming important for practical applications such as electroluminescent display. This book, the first review of the subject to be published, contains not only surveys of the existing literature, but presents new results as well.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Solitons and Field Induced Solitons in Liquid Crystals....Pages 9-50
Solitons in Shearing Liquid Crystals....Pages 51-109
Some Nonlinear Problems in Anisotropic Systems....Pages 110-150
Solitary Waves in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals....Pages 151-190
Frustrated Smectics....Pages 191-234
Soft Walls and Orientational Singularities in Two-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Films....Pages 235-252
Charged Twist Walls in Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 253-263
Localized Instabilities in the Convection of Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 264-292
Solitons and Commensurate-Incommensurate Phase Transitions in Ferroelectric Smectics....Pages 293-325
Back Matter....Pages 326-338

✦ Subjects

Crystallography;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics