Publication Date:
2012-10-02
Description:
Author(s): R. Barboza, U. Bortolozzo, G. Assanto, E. Vidal-Henriquez, M. G. Clerc, and S. Residori By sending circularly polarized light beams onto a homeotropic nematic liquid crystal cell with a photosensitive wall, we are able to locally induce spontaneous matter vortices that remain, each, stable and trapped at the chosen location. We discuss the dual light-matter nature of the created vortic... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 143901] Published Mon Oct 01, 2012
Keywords:
Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics
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