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cond-mat.soft2022★ 17 cited
Kinematics and dynamics of disclination lines in three-dimensional nematics
Cody D. Schimming, Jorge Viñals
An exact kinematic law for the motion of disclination lines in nematic liquid crystals as a function of the tensor order parameter is derived. Unlike other order param…
cond-mat.soft2022★ 9 cited
Equilibrium morphology of tactoids in elastically anisotropic nematics
Cody D. Schimming, Jorge Viñals
We study two dimensional tactoids in nematic liquid crystals by using a -tensor representation. A bulk free energy of the Maier-Saupe form with eigenvalue constraints o…
cond-mat.soft2022★ 28 cited
Singularity identification for the characterization of topology, geometry, and motion of nematic disclination lines
Cody D. Schimming, Jorge Viñals
We introduce a characterization of disclination lines in three dimensional nematic liquid crystals as a tensor quantity related to the so called rotation vector around the line. Th…