"Dynamic Effects of Broken Parity in Chiral and Octupolar Phases"
Prof. Dr. Helmut R. Brand

Sep 16, 2014

日本物理学会北海道支部講演会
トポロジー理工学教育研究センター第203回エンレイソウの会
物理コロキウム共催
講演題目：　Dynamic Effects of Broken Parity in Chiral and Octupolar Phases
講　師　：　Prof. Dr. Helmut R. Brand
　　　　　Theoretical Physics III, Bayreuth University, Germany
日　時　：　平成26年9月16日 (火) 13:00-14:00
場　所　：　北海道大学理学部2号館211室(2-2-11)

要　旨　：
We analyze dynamic effects of broken parity in various liquid crystalline phases. Topics covered include Lehmann-type effects as well as inverse Lehmann-type effects, which can be used as a microscopic pump [1]. Recently we have demonstrated that such effects can also arise in liquid crystalline systems made of achiral molecules provided the overall structure has macroscopic chirality [2]. In such a situation we predict that Lehmann-type effects as well as rotatoelectricity are possible [2].
Over the last few years it has become clear that octupolar (tetrahedral) order could come into play for various types of nematic liquid crystal phases. We investigate the resulting macroscopic behavior of non-polar tetrahedral nematic liquid crystals [3,4] and discuss ambidextrous chirality versus ambidextrous helicity for nonpolar nematic phases of sufficiently low symmetry [5].
Using these results we make contact with selected recent experimental results. For Lehmann-type effects we analyze experimental results on free-standing chiral smectic films [6]. We also critically compare our analysis with reports of octupolar nematic order in at least two different systems [7,8]. Quite remarkably previous experiments also indicate the presence of octupolar order [9,10].

[1] D. Svensek, H. Pleiner, and H.R. Brand, Phys. Rev. E 78, 021703
(2008). [2] H.R. Brand, H. Pleiner, and D. Svensek, Phys. Rev. E 88, 024501 (2013).
[3] H.R. Brand, H. Pleiner and P.E. Cladis, Physica 351, 189 (2005).
[4] H.R. Brand and H. Pleiner, Eur. Phys. J. E 31, 37 (2010).
[5] H. Pleiner and H.R. Brand, Eur. Phys. J. E 37, 11 (2014).
[6] K. Seki, K. Ueda, Y. Okumura, and Y. Tabe, J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 23, 284114 (2011).
[7] E.H. Kim, O.N. Kadkin, S.Y. Kim, and M.-G. Choi, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2011, 2933 (2011).
[8] Y. Jang, R. Balachandran, C. Keith, A. Lehmann, C. Tschierske, and J.K. Vij, Soft Matter 8, 10479 (2012).
[9] W. Weissflog, M.W. Schroeder, S. Diele, and G. Pelzl, Adv. Mater. 2003. 630 (2003).
[10] G. Pelzl, A. Eremin, S. Diele, H. Kresse, and W. Weissflog, J. Mat. Chem. 12, 2591 (2002).


世話人　 北孝文
（kita@phys.sci.hokudai.ac.jp）
北海道大学理学部物理学科　内線(2687)