Direct observation of the Brownian motion of a liquid-crystal topological defect
- 10 February 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (6) , 804-807
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.804
Abstract
Optical study of point disclinations in the two-dimensional director field of freely suspended smectic-C liquid-crystal films shows that these defects exhibit Brownian spontanous positional fluctuations.Keywords
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