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Role of friction in multidefect ordering

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arxiv 2005.01164 v2 pith:HBXSPS3Y submitted 2020-05-03 cond-mat.soft

Kristian Thijssen , Mehrana R. Nejad , Julia M. Yeomans This is my paper · ORCID
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We use continuum simulations to study the impact of friction on the ordering of defects in an active nematic. Even in a frictionless system, +1/2 defects tend to align side-by-side and orient antiparallel reflecting their propensity to form, and circulate with, flow vortices. Increasing friction enhances the effectiveness of the defect-defect interactions, and defects form dynamically evolving, large scale, positionally and orientationally-ordered structures which can be explained as a competition between hexagonal packing, preferred by the -1/2 defects, and rectangular packing preferred by the +1/2 defects.

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