title: Boundary effects in chiral polymer hexatics
abstract: Boundary effects in liquid-crystalline phases can be large due to long-ranged orientational correlations. We show that the chiral-hexatic phase can be locked into an apparent three-dimensional N+6 phase via such effects. Simple numerical estimates suggest that the recently discovered "polymer hexatic" may actually be this locked phase.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Kamien
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Levine