Colloquium: Disclination loops, point defects, and all that in nematic liquid crystals

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 497-514

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION OF DEFECTS; DISCLINATIONS; HEISENBERG FERROMAGNETS; HOMOTOPY THEORY; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT; TOPOLOGICAL REASONING; TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE;

DEFECTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POINT DEFECTS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84860169230     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.84.497     Document Type: Article

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