Abstract
This paper presents the results of numerical calculations revealing how the structural parameters (i.e., the pitch p_{TB}, the spatial period p_{SB}, and the tilt angle θ_{TB} or θ_{SB}) of twist-bend nematics (N_{TB}) and splay-bend nematics (N_{SB}) depend on the values of elastic constants in Dozov's theory [I. Dozov, Europhys. Lett. 56, 247 (2001)10.1209/epl/i2001-00513-x]. Alternative formulas for p_{TB}, θ_{TB}, p_{SB}, and θ_{SB} have been derived and it has been proved that they give more accurate results than the expressions proposed by Dozov. Although the determination of the fourth-order elastic constants C_{1}, C_{2}, and C_{3} is not feasible in a simple way, the order of magnitude of the sum C_{1}+C_{2} has been easily estimated and is equal to 10^{-31}Jm. Moreover, the numerical calculations have shown that twist-bend nematics can exist even when K_{11} is smaller than 2K_{22} and thus Dozov's criterion K_{11}>2K_{22} for the stability of the N_{TB} phase is not strictly satisfied.
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