Observing correlated production of defects and antidefects in liquid crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5030-5033

  Digal, Sanatan ^a   Ray, Rajarshi ^a   Srivastava, Ajit M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (India)

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EID: 0000200620     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5030     Document Type: Article

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