Principles of a classification of defects in ordered media 论文

详细信息

发表期刊/会议

Journal de Physique Lettres

发表日期

1976-01-01

发表年份

1976

摘要

A classification of defects in ordered media is presented. Based on purely topological concepts, it provides a distinction between elementary (topologically stable) and compound defects. This systematic classification recovers some previous empirically derived results and allows new predictions. It exhibits a striking connection between the nature of defects in an ordered phase and the critical phenomena at the phase transition.