Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions
While flocking and schooling are more often associated with birds and fish, these types of behaviour can also be observed in inanimate systems. Here the authors demonstrate schooling of topological solitons in a liquid crystal system powered by oscillating electric fields.
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| author | Hayley R. O. Sohn Changda D. Liu Ivan I. Smalyukh |
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| description | While flocking and schooling are more often associated with birds and fish, these types of behaviour can also be observed in inanimate systems. Here the authors demonstrate schooling of topological solitons in a liquid crystal system powered by oscillating electric fields. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-57ddb2620fba4c0dbf99f1ec3d8ce3962022-12-21T20:38:48ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232019-10-0110111110.1038/s41467-019-12723-3Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactionsHayley R. O. Sohn0Changda D. Liu1Ivan I. Smalyukh2Department of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of ColoradoDepartment of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of ColoradoDepartment of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of ColoradoWhile flocking and schooling are more often associated with birds and fish, these types of behaviour can also be observed in inanimate systems. Here the authors demonstrate schooling of topological solitons in a liquid crystal system powered by oscillating electric fields.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12723-3 |
| spellingShingle | Hayley R. O. Sohn Changda D. Liu Ivan I. Smalyukh Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions Nature Communications |
| title | Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions |
| title_full | Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions |
| title_fullStr | Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions |
| title_short | Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions |
| title_sort | schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12723-3 |
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