Qualitative chirality effects on the Casimir-Lifshitz torque with liquid crystals

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Broer, Wijnand, Lu, Bing-Sui, Podgornik, Rudolf
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2022
• الموضوعات: Science::Physics; Angular Dependence; Birefringent Crystals
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160707
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

We model a cholesteric liquid crystal as a planar uniaxial multilayer system, where the orientation of each layer differs slightly from that of the adjacent one. This allows us to analytically simplify the otherwise acutely complicated calculation of the Casimir-Lifshitz torque. Numerical results...