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Coarse-grained theory for motion of solitons and skyrmions in liquid crystals

Published:2021 Issue:46 Volume:17 Page:10437-10446
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Long Cheng¹,Selinger Jonathan V.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA

Abstract

A coarse-grained theory is developed to characterize the motion of topological structures in nematic liquid crystals under the effect of a changing external field, and the mechanism of the squirming motion for a skyrmion is elucidated.

Funder

Division of Materials Research

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/SM/D1SM01335A

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