Disclinations, dislocations and continuous defects: a reappraisal

Details Disclinations, dislocations and continuous defects: a reappraisal Disclinations, dislocations and continuous defects: a reappraisal

2007-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3055v1

Rev. Mod. Phys. January-March 2008, 80, 61-115

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

72 pages, 36 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/RevModPhys.80.61

Disclinations, first observed in mesomorphic phases, are relevant to a number of ill-ordered condensed matter media, with continuous symmetries or frustrated order. They also appear in polycrystals at the edges of grain boundaries. They are of limited interest in solid single crystals, where, owing to their large elastic stresses, they mostly appear in close pairs of opposite signs. The relaxation mechanisms associated with a disclination in its creation, motion, change of shape, involve an interplay with continuous or quantized dislocations and/or continuous disclinations. These are attached to the disclinations or are akin to Nye's dislocation densities, well suited here. The notion of 'extended Volterra process' takes these relaxation processes into account and covers different situations where this interplay takes place. These concepts are illustrated by applications in amorphous solids, mesomorphic phases and frustrated media in their curved habit space. The powerful topological theory of line defects only considers defects stable against relaxation processes compatible with the structure considered. It can be seen as a simplified case of the approach considered here, well suited for media of high plasticity or/and complex structures. Topological stability cannot guarantee energetic stability and sometimes cannot distinguish finer details of structure of defects.

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