Kinetics of motile solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Electric field induced convective instabilities in liquid crystal slabs can assume a localized shape. The authors show how to generate, manipulate and shepard these dissipative solitary excitations that do not require topological constraints for stabilization.

Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Satoshi Aya, Fumito Araoka
Μορφή: Άρθρο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Nature Portfolio 2020-06-01
Σειρά:Nature Communications
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16864-8