Power of the poincaré group: Elucidating the hidden symmetries in focal conic domains

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 25, 2010, Pages

  Alexander, Gareth P ^a   Chen, Bryan Gin Ge ^a   Matsumoto, Elisabetta A ^a   Kamien, Randall D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCAL CONIC DOMAINS; FOCAL-CONIC TEXTURE; HIDDEN SYMMETRY; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; POINCARE; SMECTIC LAYERS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; SMECTICS;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; TEXTURES;

FOCUSING;

EID: 77954094139     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.257802     Document Type: Article

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