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Unpublished Paper
Developed Smectics: When Exact Solutions Agree
Physical Review Letters (2012)
  • Gareth P. Alexander
  • Randall D. Kamien
  • Christian Santangelo
Abstract

In the limit where the bending modulus vanishes, we construct layer configurations with arbitrary dislocation textures by exploiting a connection between uniformly spaced layers in two dimensions and developable surfaces in three dimensions. We then show how these focal textures can be used to construct layer configurations with finite bending modulus.

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Publication Date
2012
Comments
Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.047802
Citation Information
Gareth P. Alexander, Randall D. Kamien and Christian Santangelo. "Developed Smectics: When Exact Solutions Agree" Physical Review Letters (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christian_santangelo/13/