A study of ferronematic thin films including a stray field energy
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| author | Dutta, Shilpa Dalby, James Majumdar, Apala Schlömerkemper, Anja |
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| contents | Ferronematic materials are colloidal suspensions of magnetic particles in liquid crystals. They are complex materials with potential applications in display technologies, sensors, microfluidics devices, etc. We consider a model for ferronematics in a 2D domain with a variational approach. The proposed free energy of the ferronematic system depends on the Landau-de Gennes (LdG) order parameter $\mathbf{Q}$ and the magnetization $\mathbf{M}$, and incorporates the complex interaction between the liquid crystal molecules and the magnetic particles in the presence of an external magnetic field $\mathbf{H}_{ext}$. The energy functional combines the Landau-de Gennes nematic energy density and energy densities from the theory of micromagnetics including (an approximation of) the stray field energy and energetic contributions from an external magnetic field. For the proposed ferronematic energy, we first prove the existence of an energy minimizer and then the uniqueness of the minimizer in certain parameter regimes. Secondly, we numerically compute stable ferronematic equilibria by solving the gradient flow equations associated with the proposed ferronematic energy. The numerical results show that the stray field influences the localization of the interior nematic defects and magnetic vortices. |
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| spellingShingle | A study of ferronematic thin films including a stray field energy Dutta, Shilpa Dalby, James Majumdar, Apala Schlömerkemper, Anja Analysis of PDEs 68Q25, 68R10, 68U05 Ferronematic materials are colloidal suspensions of magnetic particles in liquid crystals. They are complex materials with potential applications in display technologies, sensors, microfluidics devices, etc. We consider a model for ferronematics in a 2D domain with a variational approach. The proposed free energy of the ferronematic system depends on the Landau-de Gennes (LdG) order parameter $\mathbf{Q}$ and the magnetization $\mathbf{M}$, and incorporates the complex interaction between the liquid crystal molecules and the magnetic particles in the presence of an external magnetic field $\mathbf{H}_{ext}$. The energy functional combines the Landau-de Gennes nematic energy density and energy densities from the theory of micromagnetics including (an approximation of) the stray field energy and energetic contributions from an external magnetic field. For the proposed ferronematic energy, we first prove the existence of an energy minimizer and then the uniqueness of the minimizer in certain parameter regimes. Secondly, we numerically compute stable ferronematic equilibria by solving the gradient flow equations associated with the proposed ferronematic energy. The numerical results show that the stray field influences the localization of the interior nematic defects and magnetic vortices. |
| title | A study of ferronematic thin films including a stray field energy |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs 68Q25, 68R10, 68U05 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10442 |