Annihilation of edge dislocations in smectic-A liquid crystals

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 1, 2004, Pages

  Ambrozic M ^a,b   Kralj, S ^a,b   Sluckin, T J ^c   Zumer S ^a,d   Svensek D ^d  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FREE ENERGY; GRAPH THEORY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TEXTURES; TOPOLOGY;

EDGE DISLOCATIONS; EULER-LAGRANGE (EL) EQUATIONS; LANDAU-GINZBURG APPROACH; NEMATODYNAMICS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349084559     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.051704     Document Type: Article

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