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cond-mat.soft2013
Knotted Nematics
Thomas Machon, Gareth P. Alexander
Knotted line defects in continuous fields entrain a complex arrangement of the material sur- rounding them. Recent experimental realisations in optics, fluids and nematic liquid cr…
cond-mat.soft2013★ 79 cited
Threading Dynamics of Ring Polymers in a Gel
D. Michieletto, D. Marenduzzo, E. Orlandini +2
We perform large scale three-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations of unlinked and unknotted ring polymers diffusing through a background gel, here a three-dimensional cubic l…
cond-mat.soft2013★ 84 cited
Nematics, Knots and Non-orientable Surfaces
Thomas Machon, Gareth P. Alexander
Knots and knotted fields enrich physical phenomena ranging from DNA and molecular chemistry to the vortices of fluid flows and textures of ordered media. Liquid crystals provide an…