https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06826-8
Regular Article
Confined isotropic-nematic phase transition in liquid crystals
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Ongil Private Limited, 600113, Chennai, India
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Department of Physics, Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, 12 William Carey Road, Serampore, 712201, Hooghly, India
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Received:
2
May
2025
Accepted:
2
September
2025
Published online:
10
September
2025
We investigate the impact of quenched disorder on nematic-isotropic phase transitions in low-dimensional liquid crystals. Quenched random fields create pinning potentials that destabilize the nematic phase, generating localized domain walls with finite boundaries. We determine stability conditions and estimate domain density. Through scaling arguments and general potential energy conditions, we demonstrate that static interface boundaries can only exist in one dimension in the thermodynamic limit.
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