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Restoring Forces on Nematic Disclinations

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Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments

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We compute both the force and the torque acting on a nematic disclination of arbitrary shape in space. The disclination’s core, where the material is thought of as melted in its isotropic phase, is not necessarily assumed to be a circular cylinder. The effect of the core’s shape on the forces restoring equilibrium is also studied in some detail.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Università di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, I-27100, Pavia, Italy

    R. Rosso & E. G. Virga

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  1. Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

    Oleg D. Lavrentovich

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Pasini

  3. Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica ed Inorganica, Universita di Bologna, Italy

    Claudio Zannoni

  4. Physics Department, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Slobodan Žumer

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Rosso, R., Virga, E.G. (2001). Restoring Forces on Nematic Disclinations. In: Lavrentovich, O.D., Pasini, P., Zannoni, C., Žumer, S. (eds) Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments. NATO Science Series, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0512-8_7

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