Conservation of disclination strength in two-dimensional lattice models of liquid crystalline textures |
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| Authors: | Tsunehisa Kimura |
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| Institution: | Department of Chemistry, Pulp and Paper Research Centre , McGill University , 3420 University Street, Montreal, QC, Canada , H3A 2A7 |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The disclination strength defined on the boundary of textures generated by recently proposed simple modelling methods appears to be the sum of the strengths of primitive disclinations inside the boundary. In this paper, a rationalization is provided for these observations in two dimensions using an analytical expression for the conservation law for wedge type disclinations. |
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