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Curvature-Induced Defect Unbinding in Toroidal Geometries
Mark Bowick, David R. Nelson, Alex Travesset
Toroidal templates such as vesicles with hexatic bond orientational order are discussed. The total energy including disclination charges is explicitly computed for hexatic order em…
The Shapes of Dirichlet Defects
Mark Bowick, Antonio De Felice, Mark Trodden
If the vacuum manifold of a field theory has the appropriate topological structure, the theory admits topological structures analogous to the D-branes of string theory, in which de…
Grain Boundary Scars and Spherical Crystallography
A. R. Bausch, M. J. Bowick, A. Cacciuto +6
We describe experimental investigations of the structure of two-dimensional spherical crystals. The crystals, formed by beads self-assembled on water droplets in oil, serve as mode…