Title	Existence of Surface Smectic States of Liquid Crystals
Creator	Kachmar, Ayman
Publisher	Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery
Date Issued	2017-05-04T13:30
Description	I will present a recent result on the Landau-de Gennes model of liquid crystals, obtained jointly with S. Fournais and X.B. Pan. The model we studied is a functional acting on wave functions (order parameters) and vector fields (director fields) defined in a three dimensional domain. In a specific asymptotic limit of the physical parameters, we constructed critical points such that the wave function is localized near the boundary of the domain, and we computed the energy of such critical points. In physical terms, these critical points correspond to surface smectic states.
Extent	44 minutes
Subject	Mathematics; Partial differential equations; Statistical mechanics, structure of matter
Type	Moving Image
File Format	video/mp4
Language	eng
Notes	Author affiliation: Lebanese University
Series	BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos (Banff, Alta)
Date Available	2017-11-01
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0357421
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63510
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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