Alignment tensor versus director: Description of defects in nematic liquid crystals
- 1 July 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 52 (1), 718-722
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.52.718
Abstract
The core structure of nematic defects cannot be represented by the usual director field, but requires the description by the full orial calculus.Keywords
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