Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments

Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments edited by Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Paolo Pasini, Claudio Zannoni, Slobodan Zumer.

Topological defects are the subject of intensive studies in many different branches of physics ranging from cosmology to liquid crystals and from elementary particles to colloids and biological systems. Liquid crystals are fascinating materials which present a great variety of these mathematical obj...

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Other Authors: Lavrentovich, Oleg D. (Editor), Pasini, Paolo (Editor), Zannoni, Claudio (Editor), Zumer, Slobodan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Nato Science Series II:, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 43
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Condensed matter.
Statistical physics.
Dynamical systems.
Mathematical physics.
Continuum physics.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Classification of defects in liquid crystals
  • 2 Alignment tensor versus director description in nematic liquid crystals
  • 3 Liquid crystal colloidal dispersions
  • 4 Computer simulations and defects in confined liquid crystal lattice models
  • 5 Molecular simulations and theory of planar interfaces and defects in nematic liquid crystals
  • 6 Topological defect behavior in a quenched nematic liquid crystal
  • 7 Restoring forces on nematic disclinations
  • 8 Challenges in the dynamics of point defects
  • 9 Numerical simulation of elastic anisotropy in nematic liquid crystalline polymers
  • 10 Computer Simulations and Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of Structures in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
  • 11 Defects and Undulation in Layered Liquid Crystals
  • 12 Liquid crystals under shear: role of defects
  • 13 Numerical simulation of defects in quasicrystals.

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