Abstract

The behavior of the orientation structure of a suspension of diamagnetic particles based on a cholesteric liquid crystal in an external magnetic field is theoretically studied. The effects of magnetic segregation and rigid homeotropic coupling between the liquid crystal matrix and admixture diamagnetic particles are taken into account. Within the framework of the continuum approach, a system of equations for the orientation equilibrium of the suspension was obtained using standard variational procedures. In the limit of weak magnetic fields, analytical dependences describing the behavior of the director vector field and the distribution of the admixture concentration along the suspension helix are obtained. A significant influence of the anisotropy parameter of the diamagnetic susceptibility subsystems on the wave-like concentration profiles in the suspension was revealed.

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