Liquid crystals and their defects

2017/06/21 by Ball, John M. · 4 citations
#76A15 #82D30 #FOS: Physical sciences #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1706.06861

Abstract

These lecture notes discuss classical models of liquid crystals, and the different ways in which defects are described according to the different models.

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