Hydrodynamic Enhancement of p-atic Defect Dynamics.
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.098101
Abstract: We investigate numerically and analytically the effects of hydrodynamics on the dynamics of topological defects in p-atic liquid crystals, i.e., two-dimensional liquid crystals with p-fold rotational symmetry. Importantly, we find that hydrodynamics fuels a generic… read more here.
Keywords: defect dynamics; hydrodynamics; enhancement atic; atic defect ... See more keywords