Hydrodynamics of Defects in the Abelianβ
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GΓΌnter Kurz; Sarben Sarkar
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The Abelian Higgs model is the basis for a gauge covariant form of the distortion free energy for nematic liquid crystals. This is used to derive a new form of the Ericksen Leslie equations incorporating the dynamics of disclinations in nematic films. The zero liquid flow case is treated in detail f