Kinetics of motile solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Satoshi Aya; Fumito Araoka

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16864-8

Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Kinetics of motile solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Satoshi Aya,
Fumito Araoka

Affiliations

Satoshi Aya: South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Molecular Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology
Fumito Araoka: Physicochemical Soft Matter Research Team, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16864-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Electric field induced convective instabilities in liquid crystal slabs can assume a localized shape. The authors show how to generate, manipulate and shepard these dissipative solitary excitations that do not require topological constraints for stabilization.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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