Dislocations and fibrations: the topological structure of knotted defects in smectic liquid crystals

In this work, we investigate the topological properties of knotted defects in smectic liquid crystals. Our story begins with screw dislocations, whose radial surface structure can be smoothly accommodated on S ^3 for fibred knots by using the corresponding knot fibration. To understand how a smectic...

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Main Authors: Paul G Severino, Randall D Kamien, Benjamin Bode
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/addde1
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