Citation:
Matsumoto EA, Alexander GP, Kamien RD. Helical Nanofilaments in the High Chirality Limit of Smectics-A. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010;103 (25) :257804.
Abstract:
Liquid crystalline systems exhibiting both macroscopic chirality and smectic order experience frustration resulting in mesophases possessing complex three-dimensional order. In the twist-grain-boundary phase, defect lattices mediate the propagation of twist throughout the system. We propose a new chiral smectic structure composed of a lattice of chiral bundles as a model of the helical nanofilament (B4) phase of bent-core smectics.