Topological defects of cholesteric liquid crystals for volumes with spherical shape |
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| Authors: | M. V. Kurik O. D. Lavrentovich |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR , Kiev-28, Prospect, Nauki, 144, USSR |
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| Abstract: | The existence of the monopoles both with one x (+2) line and two x (+1) lines in cholesteric volumes with spherical shape is shown experimentally by microscopic observations with polarized light. The effect of disapperarnce of x lines near the cholesteric-smectic A transition is discovered. |
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