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Two-Dimensional Matter: Order, Curvature and Defects
Mark J. Bowick, Luca Giomi
Many systems in nature and the synthetic world involve ordered arrangements of units on two-dimensional surfaces. We review here the fundamental role payed by both the topology of…
Elastic Theory of Defects in Toroidal Crystals
Luca Giomi, Mark J. Bowick
We report a comprehensive analysis of the ground state properties of axisymmetric toroidal crystals based on the elastic theory of defects on curved substrates. The ground state is…
Toroidal Crystals
Luca Giomi, Mark J. Bowick
Crystalline assemblages of identical sub-units packed together and elastically bent in the form of a torus have been found in the past ten years in a variety of systems of surprisi…
Vacancy diffusion in the triangular lattice dimer model
Monwhea Jeng, Mark J. Bowick, Werner Krauth +2
We study vacancy diffusion on the classical triangular lattice dimer model, sub ject to the kinetic constraint that dimers can only translate, but not rotate. A single vacancy, i.e…