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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 110, 期 35, 页码 14174-14179出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308225110
关键词
topological defects; homotopy theory; metamaterials
资金
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- University of Warwick
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1091175] Funding Source: researchfish
Knots and knotted fields enrich physical phenomena ranging from DNA and molecular chemistry to the vortices of fluid flows and textures of ordered media. Liquid crystals provide an ideal setting for exploring such topological phenomena through control of their characteristic defects. The use of colloids in generating defects and knotted configurations in liquid crystals has been demonstrated for spherical and toroidal particles and shows promise for the development of novel photonic devices. Extending this existing work, we describe the full topological implications of colloids representing nonorientable surfaces and use it to construct torus knots and links of type (p,2) around multiply twisted Mobius strips.
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