Cholesteric fingers are composite chiral solitons built from merons, with CF-2 as unit-charge bimerons and CF-1 as topologically trivial pairs, showing repulsive interactions in homogeneous states and attractive ones in conical backgrounds, with stability controlled by film thickness.
Derrick, Journal of Mathematical Physics5, 1252 (1964)
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Experiments have observed bright solitons in quasi-1D traps, elusive 2D Townes solitons, vortex solitons, and nonclassical signatures of modulational instability in attractive condensates.
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Cholesteric Fingers from a Magnetic Perspective: Topology, Energetics, and Interactions
Cholesteric fingers are composite chiral solitons built from merons, with CF-2 as unit-charge bimerons and CF-1 as topologically trivial pairs, showing repulsive interactions in homogeneous states and attractive ones in conical backgrounds, with stability controlled by film thickness.
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Attractive Multidimensional Condensates--Experiments
Experiments have observed bright solitons in quasi-1D traps, elusive 2D Townes solitons, vortex solitons, and nonclassical signatures of modulational instability in attractive condensates.