2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Surface Nematic Quasi-Uniformity
Andrea Pedrini, Epifanio G. Virga
Line fields on surfaces are a means to describe the nematic order that may pattern them. The least distorted nematic fields are called uniform, but they can only exist on surfaces…
cond-mat.soft2025
Surface Nematic Uniformity
Andrea Pedrini, Epifanio G. Virga
An ant-like observer confined to a two-dimensional surface traversed by stripes would wonder whether this striped landscape could be devised in such a way as to appear to be the sa…