Chiral hedgehog textures in 2D XY-like ordered domains

Details Chiral hedgehog textures in 2D XY-like ordered domains Chiral hedgehog textures in 2D XY-like ordered domains

1999-08-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9908393v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 3 figures included, revised to include experimental findings which compares directly to theoretical results, submitte

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.62.5115

The textures associated with a point defect centered in a circular domain of a thin film with XY-like ordering have been analyzed. The family of equilibrium textures, both stable and metastable, can be classified by a new radial topological number in addition to the winding number of the defect. Chiral textures are supported in an achiral system as a result of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. Among these chiral textures, our theoretical analysis accurately describes two categories of recently discovered ``reversing spiral'' textures, ones that are energetically stable and metastable.

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