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P. Kaiser, W. Wiese and S. Hess, “Stability and Instability of a Uniaxial Alignment against Biaxial Distortions in the Isotropic and Nematic Phases of Liquid Crystals,” Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1992, pp. 153-169.

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• TITLE: Defect Core Structures in Twisted Nematic and Twisted Chiral Liquid Crystals

  AUTHORS: Xuan Zhou, Guili Zheng, Zhidong Zhang

  KEYWORDS: Disclinations; Eigenvalue Exchange; Defect Core; Landau-de Gennes Theory

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.4 No.2, February 27, 2013

  ABSTRACT: The defect structures of s = ±1/2 twist disclinations in twisted nematic and twisted chiral liquid crystals have been investigated within the Landau-de Gennes theory numerically. Our results show that there exists eigenvalue exchange across the defect core of both the two models. The defect core is essentially biaxial and never isotropic. The defect centre is uniaxial and is surrounded by a strong biaxial region.