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.
Main Authors: | Hayley R. O. Sohn, Changda D. Liu, Ivan I. Smalyukh |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2019-10-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12723-3 |
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