ITERATED MOIRE MAPS AND BRAIDING OF CHIRAL POLYMER CRYSTALS

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作者
KAMIEN, RD [1 ]
NELSON, DR [1 ]
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[1] HARVARD UNIV, LYMAN LAB PHYS, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2499
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
In the hexagonal columnar phase of chiral polymers a bias towards cholesteric twist competes with braiding along an average direction. When the chirality is strong, screw dislocations proliferate, leading to either a tilt grain boundary phase or a new "moiré state" with twisted bond order. In the latter case, polymer trajectories in the plane perpendicular to their average direction are described by iterated moiré maps of remarkable complexity. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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