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The Cosmological Kibble Mechanism in the Laboratory: String Formation in Liquid Crystals
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The production of strings (disclination lines and loops) has been observed by means of the Kibble mechanism of domain (bubble) formation in the isotropic-nematic phase transition of the uniaxial nematic liquid crystal 4-cyano-4′- n -pentylbiphenyl. The number of strings formed per bubble is about 0.6. This value is in reasonable agreement with a numerical simulation of the experiment in which the Kibble mechanism is used for the order parameter space of a uniaxial nematic liquid crystal.
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- Bowick, M. J., Chandar, L., Schiff, E. A., & Srivastava, A. M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1994-02-18
- Volume
- 263
- Issue
- 5149
- Pages
- 943-945
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1982308279
- Cited by
- 393
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 11.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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