Kini, U. D. ; Ranganath, G. S. (1977) Singularities in nematics: the effect of elastic constant variations Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 38 . pp. 311-317. ISSN 1542-1406
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Abstract
In this paper we report typical calculations of the variations in the deformation energy, interaction energy and orientational pattern of +1, −1, +½ and −½ singularities in the neighbourhood of a nematic-smectic transition in CBOOA. We find the interaction between +½ and −½ singularities to increase much more rapidly than that between +1 and −1 as the smectic point is reached, indicating that the former have a greater probability of annihilating each other near the transition.
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