Nematic braids: Topological invariants and rewiring of disclinations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Čopar, Simon ^a   Žumer, Slobodan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLETE CLASSIFICATION; DEFECT LINES; DISCLINATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL GROUP; NEMATIC COLLOIDS; NEMATIC ORDER; NEMATICS; TOPOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION; TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS;

DEFECTS; WEAVING;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 79960668820     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.177801     Document Type: Article

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