A genetic algorithm for the response of twisted nematic liquid crystals to an applied field
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| author | Sit, Alicia Di Colandrea, Francesco D'Errico, Alessio Karimi, Ebrahim |
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| contents | When an external field is applied across a liquid-crystal cell, the twist and tilt distributions cannot be calculated analytically and must be extracted numerically. In the standard approach, the Euler-Lagrange equations are derived from the minimization of the free energy of the system and then solved via finite-difference methods, often implemented in commercial software. These tools iterate from initial solutions that are compatible with the boundary conditions, providing limited to no flexibility for customization. Here, we present a genetic algorithm that outputs fast and accurate solutions to the integral form of the equations. In our approach, the evolutionary routine is sequentially applied at each position within the bulk of the cell, thus overcoming the necessity of assuming trial solutions. The predictions of our routine strongly support the experimental observations on different instances of spatially varying twisted nematic liquid-crystal cells, patterned with different topologies on the two alignment layers. |
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| spellingShingle | A genetic algorithm for the response of twisted nematic liquid crystals to an applied field Sit, Alicia Di Colandrea, Francesco D'Errico, Alessio Karimi, Ebrahim Computational Physics Soft Condensed Matter Optics When an external field is applied across a liquid-crystal cell, the twist and tilt distributions cannot be calculated analytically and must be extracted numerically. In the standard approach, the Euler-Lagrange equations are derived from the minimization of the free energy of the system and then solved via finite-difference methods, often implemented in commercial software. These tools iterate from initial solutions that are compatible with the boundary conditions, providing limited to no flexibility for customization. Here, we present a genetic algorithm that outputs fast and accurate solutions to the integral form of the equations. In our approach, the evolutionary routine is sequentially applied at each position within the bulk of the cell, thus overcoming the necessity of assuming trial solutions. The predictions of our routine strongly support the experimental observations on different instances of spatially varying twisted nematic liquid-crystal cells, patterned with different topologies on the two alignment layers. |
| title | A genetic algorithm for the response of twisted nematic liquid crystals to an applied field |
| topic | Computational Physics Soft Condensed Matter Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00948 |