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cond-mat.soft2009★ 53 cited
Smectics: Symmetry Breaking, Singularities, and Surfaces
Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Gareth P. Alexander, Randall D. Kamien
The homotopy theory of topological defects in ordered media fails to completely characterize systems with broken translational symmetry. We argue that the problem can be understood…
cond-mat.soft2008★ 16 cited
Nematic Films and Radially Anisotropic Delaunay Surfaces
Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Randall D. Kamien
We develop a theory of axisymmetric surfaces minimizing a combination of surface tension and nematic elastic energies which may be suitable for describing simple film and bubble sh…