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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 103, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.127801
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- EC [215851]
- Slovenian Research Agency [P1-0099, J1-2335]
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We show that chiral ordering of the underlying complex fluid strongly influences defect formation and colloidal interactions. Nonsingular defect loops with a topological charge -2 are observed, with a cross section identical to hyperbolic vortices in magnetic systems. These loops are binding spontaneously formed pairs of colloidal particles and dimers, which are chiral objects. Chiral dimer-dimer interaction weakly depends on the chirality of dimers and leads to the assembly of 2D nematic colloidal crystals of pure or mixed chirality, intercalated with a lattice of nonsingular vortexlike defects.
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