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  • Title: Theory of skyrmion states in liquid crystals.
    Author: Leonov AO, Dragunov IE, Rößler UK, Bogdanov AN.
    Journal: Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys; 2014 Oct; 90(4):042502. PubMed ID: 25375510.
    Abstract:
    Within the Oseen-Frank theory we derive numerically exact solutions for axisymmetric localized states in chiral liquid crystal layers with homeotropic anchoring. These solutions describe recently observed two-dimensional skyrmions in confinement-frustrated chiral nematics [P. J. Ackerman et al., Phys. Rev. E 90, 012505 (2014)]. We stress that these solitonic states arise due to a fundamental stabilization mechanism responsible for the formation of skyrmions in cubic helimagnets and other noncentrosymmetric condensed-matter systems.
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