A string theory and graph Laplacian model recovers the Jiron-Castellon virtual volumes for nematic liquid crystals and predicts anisotropic thermal expansion and refractive indices to better than 0.06% accuracy with no fitted parameters.
Vafa,Chern-Simons theory, holography, and topological strings, arXiv:2505.09750 (2025)
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First-Principles Prediction of Material Properties from Topological Invariants
A string theory and graph Laplacian model recovers the Jiron-Castellon virtual volumes for nematic liquid crystals and predicts anisotropic thermal expansion and refractive indices to better than 0.06% accuracy with no fitted parameters.