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Published in Physical Review Letters, Volume 85, Issue 20, November 13, 2000, pages 4309-4312.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Karl Saunders was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4309.
Abstract
We show that discotics, lying deep in the columnar phase, can exhibit an x-ray scattering pattern which mimics that of a somewhat unusual smectic liquid crystal. This exotic, new glassy phase of columnar liquid crystals, which we call a “hybrid columnar Bragg glass,” can be achieved by confining a columnar liquid crystal in an anisotropic random environment of, e.g., strained aerogel. Long-ranged orientational order in this phase makes single-domain x-ray scattering possible, from which a wealth of information could be extracted. We give detailed quantitative predictions for the scattering pattern in addition to exponents characterizing anomalous elasticity of the system.
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