Abelian-higgs-navier-stokes hydrodynamics for nematic films with defects

Acta Physica Polonica B

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3739-3752

  Kurz, Günter ^a   Sarkar, Sarben ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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