Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions

While flocking and schooling are more often associated with birds and fish, these types of behaviour can also be observed in inanimate systems. Here the authors demonstrate schooling of topological solitons in a liquid crystal system powered by oscillating electric fields.

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Main Authors: Hayley R. O. Sohn, Changda D. Liu, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/57ddb2620fba4c0dbf99f1ec3d8ce396
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