Frustration and Curvature: Glasses and the Cholesteric Blue Phase
- 12 December 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 51 (24), 2198-2201
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.51.2198
Abstract
An analogy is drawn between continuum elastic theories of the blue phase of cholesteric liquid crystals and recent theories of frustration in configurational glasses. Both involve the introduction of a lattice of disclination lines to relieve frustration; the frustration is due to an intrinsic curvature in the natural form of parallel transport. A continuum theory of configurational glasses is proposed.Keywords
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