Solitons in Liquid Crystals
By: edited by Lui Lam, Jacques Prost
Contributors: Prost, Jacques
Series: Partially Ordered Systems; Partially ordered systems
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781461269465; 9781461209171
Subjects: Crystallography; Physics
Description: Solitons are a well-known and intriguing aspect of nonlinear behavior in a continuous system such as a fluid: a wave propagates through the medium without distortion. Liquid crystals are highly ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. Solitons in liquid crystals (sometimes referred to as "walls") have a wide variety of remarkable properties that are becoming important for practical applications such as electroluminescent display. This book, the first review of the subject to be published, contains not only surveys of the existing literature, but presents new results as well.
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