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Liquid crystals and their defects

Soft Condensed Matter 2017-09-14 v3

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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@article{arxiv.1706.06861,
  title  = {Liquid crystals and their defects},
  author = {John M. Ball},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.06861},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

CIME lecture course, Cetraro, 2015

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