on d - m at / 0 40 34 52 v 1 [ co nd - m at . s of t ] 1 8 M ar 2 00 4 Helical Ribbons as Isometric Textures

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  • H.-T. Nguyen
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Deformations that conserve the parallelism and the distances –between layers, in smectic phases; between columns, in columnar phases– are commonplace in liquid crystals. The resulting deformed textures have the same mass density as in the ground state (an expected property in a liquid) and are at the same time isogonic and isometric, which imposes specific geometric features. The corresponding order parameter singularities extend over rather large, macroscopic, distances, e.g., cofocal conics in smectics. This well-known picture is modified when, superimposed to the 1D or 2D periodicities, the structure is helical. Isogony is no longer the rule, but isometry (and mass density) can be preserved. This paper discusses the case of a medium whose structure is made of 1D modulated layers (a lamello-columnar phase), assuming that the modulations rotate helically from one layer to the next. The price to pay is that any isometric texture is necessarily frustrated; it consists of layers folded into a set of parallel helicoids, in the manner of a screw dislocation (of macroscopic ∗author for correspondence; e-mail: [email protected]

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تاریخ انتشار 2008