Aspects of defect topology in smectic liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03366-YMaRDI QIDQ2008964zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas Machon, Hillel Aharoni, Yichen Hu, Randall D. Kamien

Publication date 26 November 2019

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04104

zbMATH Keywords

smectic liquid crystalssmectic point defects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Liquid crystals (76A15) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38)

Abstract: We study the topology of smectic defects in two and three dimensions. We give a topological classification of smectic point defects and disclination lines in three dimensions. In addition we describe the combination rules for smectic point defects in two and three dimensions, showing how the broken translational symmetry of the smectic confers a path dependence on the result of defect addition.

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