Hedgehog-antihedgehog pair annihilation to a static soliton

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 326, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 322-332

  Cladis, P E ^a   Brand, Helmut R ^a,b  

^a Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Non equilibrium phenomena; Point defect dynamics; Solitons in liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POINT DEFECTS; SOLITONS;

ANNIHILATION DYNAMICS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0042093700     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00254-1     Document Type: Article

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