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The cosmological kibble mechanism in the laboratory: string formation in liquid crystals.

M J Bowick, L Chandar, E A Schiff, A M Srivastava.   

Abstract

The production of strings (disclination lines and loops) has been observed by means of the Kibble mechanism of domain (bubble) formation in the isotropic-nematic phase transition of the uniaxial nematic liquid crystal 4-cyano-4'-n-pentylbiphenyl. The number of strings formed per bubble is about 0.6. This value is in reasonable agreement with a numerical simulation of the experiment in which the Kibble mechanism is used for the order parameter space of a uniaxial nematic liquid crystal.

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Year:  1994        PMID： 17758635     DOI： 10.1126/science.263.5149.943

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


  18 in total

1.  Materials science: Deft tricks with liquid crystals.

Authors:  Ivan I Smalyukh
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2011-10-19       Impact factor: 49.962

2.  Reconfigurable interactions and three-dimensional patterning of colloidal particles and defects in lamellar soft media.

Authors:  Rahul P Trivedi; Ivan I Klevets; Bohdan Senyuk; Taewoo Lee; Ivan I Smalyukh
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2012-03-12       Impact factor: 11.205

3.  Lensing effects in a nematic liquid crystal with topological defects.

Authors:  C Sátiro; F Moraes
Journal:  Eur Phys J E Soft Matter       Date:  2006-06-16       Impact factor: 1.890

4.  Mutually tangled colloidal knots and induced defect loops in nematic fields.

Authors:  Angel Martinez; Miha Ravnik; Brice Lucero; Rayshan Visvanathan; Slobodan Zumer; Ivan I Smalyukh
Journal:  Nat Mater       Date:  2014-01-05       Impact factor: 43.841

5.  Quasi-two-dimensional Skyrmion lattices in a chiral nematic liquid crystal.

Authors:  Jun-ichi Fukuda; Slobodan Zumer
Journal:  Nat Commun       Date:  2011       Impact factor: 14.919

6.  Splitting, linking, knotting, and solitonic escape of topological defects in nematic drops with handles.

Authors:  Mykola Tasinkevych; Michael G Campbell; Ivan I Smalyukh
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2014-11-04       Impact factor: 11.205

7.  Dynamics of topological monopoles annihilation on a fibre in a thick and thin nematic layer.

Authors:  M Nikkhou; M Škarabot; S Čopar; I Muševič
Journal:  Eur Phys J E Soft Matter       Date:  2016-10-23       Impact factor: 1.890

8.  Topological colloids.

Authors:  Bohdan Senyuk; Qingkun Liu; Sailing He; Randall D Kamien; Robert B Kusner; Tom C Lubensky; Ivan I Smalyukh
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2012-12-23       Impact factor: 49.962

9.  Optical physics: A laser model for cosmology.

Authors:  Stefan Rotter
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2017-09-13       Impact factor: 49.962

10.  Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, a century in waiting.

Authors:  Oleg D Lavrentovich
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2020-06-15       Impact factor: 11.205
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