Singularity identification for the characterization of topology, geometry, and motion of nematic disclination lines-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Singularity identification for the characterization of topology, geometry, and motion of nematic disclination lines

Published:2022 Issue:11 Volume:18 Page:2234-2244
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Schimming Cody D.¹^ORCID,Viñals Jorge¹

Affiliation:

1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Abstract

We introduce a tensorial construction expressed in terms of the nematic order parameter that allows the direct computation of geometric properties of disclination lines in three dimensional nematics.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/SM/D1SM01584B

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