Focal conic faceting in smectic-A liquid crystals
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Smectic-A nucleating in the
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Visualization, coarsening, and flow dynamics of focal conic domains in simulated smectic-A liquid crystals.
Smectic liquid crystals vividly illustrate the subtle interplay of broken translational and orientational symmetries, by exhibiting defect structures forming geometrically perfect confocal ellipses and hyperbolas. Here, we develop and numerically implement an effective theory to study the dynamics of focal conic domains in smectic-A liquid crystals. We use the information about the smectic's st...
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تاریخ انتشار 2016