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cond-mat.soft2004
Defect generation and deconfinement on corrugated topographies
Vincenzo Vitelli, David R. Nelson
We investigate topography-driven generation of defects in liquid crystals films coating frozen surfaces of spatially varying Gaussian curvature whose topology does not automaticall…
cond-mat.soft2004
Anomalous coupling between topological defects and curvature
Vincenzo Vitelli, Ari Turner
We investigate a counterintuitive geometric interaction between defects and curvature in thin layers of superfluids, superconductors and liquid crystals deposited on curved surface…