The confinement of smectics with a strong anchoring

European Physical Journal E

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 241-251

  Blanc, C ^a   Kleman, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035260370     PISSN: 12928941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101890170134     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. G.P. Crawford, S. Zǔmer (Editors), Liquid Crystals in Complex Geometries (Taylor & Francis, London, 1996).
2. P.S. Drzaic, Liquid Crystal Dispersions (World Scientific Publ., Singapore, 1995).
3. M. Kleman, Points, Lines and Walls: In Liquid Crystals, Magnetic Systems, and Various Ordered Media (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1983).
4. M. Kleman, Rep. Prog. Phys. 52, 555 (1989).
5. P. Chaikin, T.C. Lubensky, Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995).
6. P. Poulin, H. Stark, T.C. Lubensky, D.A. Weitz, Science 275, 1170 (1997).
7. P. Poulin, V. Cabuil, D.A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4862 (1997).
8. P. Poulin, D.A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. E 57, 626 (1998).
9. T.C. Lubensky, D. Pettey, N. Currier, H. Stark, Phys. Rev. E 57, 610 (1998).
10. H. Stark, J. Stelzer, R. Bernhard, Eur. Phys. J. B 10, 415 (1999).
11. P.-G. de Gennes, J. Prost, The Physics of Liquid Crystals (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993).
12. G. Friedel, Ann. Phys. (Paris) 18, 273 (1922).
13. O.D. Lavrentovich, Sov. Phys. JETP 64, 984 (1986).
14. J.-B. Fournier, G. Durand, J. Phys. II 1, 845 (1991).
15. Y. Bouligand, J. Phys. (Paris) 33, 525 (1972).
16. C.S. Rosenblatt, R. Pindak, N.A. Clark, R. Meyer, J. Phys. (Paris) 38, 1105 (1977).
17. M. Kleman, J. Phys. (Paris) 38, 1511 (1977).
18. J.B. Fournier, Phys. Rev. E 50, 2868 (1994).
19. M. Kleman, O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E 61, 1574 (2000).
20. M. Kleman, O.D. Lavrentovich, Eur. Phys. J. E 2, 47 (2000).
21. J.-B. Fournier, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1445 (1993).
22. J.-B. Fournier, E. Virga, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 452, 1251 (1996).
23. C. Blanc, M. Kleman, Eur. Phys. J. B 10, 53 (1999).
24. C. Blanc, M. Kleman, Phys. Rev. E 62, 6739 (2000).
25. M. Buchanan, J. Arrault, M.E. Cates, Langmuir 14, 7371 (1998).
26. R. Pratibha, N.V. Madhusudana, J. Phys. II 2, 383 (1992).
27. H. Naito, M. Okuda. O.Y. Zhong-Can, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2912 (1993).
28. G. Friedel, F. Grandjean, Bull. Soc. Fr. Mineral. 33, 409, (1910).
29. C. Quilliet et al., C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sér. II 319, 1469 (1994).
30. C. Quilliet, C. Blanc, M. Kléman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 522 (1996).
31. O.D. Lavrentovich, C. Quilliet, M. Kleman, J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 420 (1997).
32. C. Blanc, M. Kléman, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 332, 585 (1999).
33. C. Blanc, O. Sanseau, V. Cabuil, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 332, 523 (1999).
34. G. Porte, J. Marignan, P. Bassereau, R. May, J. Phys. (Paris) 49, 511 (1988).
35. D. Gazeau et al., Europhys. Lett. 9, 447 (1989).
36. D. Roux et al., Europhys. Lett. 11, 229 (1990).
37. D. Hilbert, S. Cohn-Vossen, Geometry and the Imagination (Chelsea Publishing Company, New York, 1952).
38. G. Darboux, Théorie Générale des Surfaces (Chelsea Publ. Cy, Bronx, New York) 1972.
39. T. Frenkel, The Geometry of Physics: an Introduction (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997).
40. M. Kleman, J. Phys. (Paris), 41 737 (1980).
41. L. Landau, E. Lifsnitz, Statistical Physics (MIR, Moscow, 1967).
42. P. Poulin, private communication.