Squirming motion of baby skyrmions in nematic fluids
A skyrmion is a topological object originally introduced to model elementary particles and a baby skyrmion is its two-dimensional counterpart which can be realized as a defect in liquid crystals. Here the authors show that an electric field can drive uniform motion of baby skyrmions in liquid crysta...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-09-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00659-5 |