Soliton based director deformation in a twist grain boundary liquid crystal

Abstract

We investigate the director dynamics of a twist grain boundary liquid crystal under the one constant approximation for the different elastic constants representing the various deformation present in the liquid crystal medium. The free energy density is deduced to a higher-order vector nonlinear partial differential equation by balancing the torque experienced by the nematic molecules under a viscous field and the molecular field arises due to the presence of elastic constants. Upon employing the stereographic projection method we further reduced the vector nonlinear differential equation into a complex scalar nonlinear partial differential equation. We obtain a series of localized solutions for the complex scalar nonlinear partial differential equation through the standard tanh method.