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SUBMITTER: Li BX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6704189 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Bing-Xiang BX Xiao Rui-Lin RL Paladugu Sathyanarayana S Shiyanovskii Sergij V SV Lavrentovich Oleg D OD
Nature communications 20190821 1
Production of stable multidimensional solitary waves is a grand challenge in modern science. Steering their propagation is an even harder problem. Here we demonstrate three-dimensional solitary waves in a nematic, trajectories of which can be steered by the electric field in a plane perpendicular to the field. The steering does not modify the properties of the background that remains uniform. These localized waves, called director bullets, are topologically unprotected multidimensional solitons ...[more]