Defect-populated configurations in nematic solid tori and cylinders
We make toroidal droplets of nematic liquid crystal and explore the defect-populated stable configurations that appear after heating to the isotropic phase and cooling back to the nematic phase. These configurations, as confirmed by simulations, are made of defect pairs where the positive/negative d...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2024-03-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L012065 |