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.
For CF–1, this instability is accompanied by a systematic increase of the structural anglesθ 1 andθ 2
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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.