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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 90, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.032503
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- European Union (EC ITN Marie Curie research network HIERARCHY, NAMASTE Center of Excellence)
- Slovenian Research Agency [P1-0099]
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Lattice-based Monte Carlo simulations are performed to study a confined liquid crystal system with a topological disclination line entangling a colloidal nanoparticle. In our microscopic study the disclination line is stretched by moving the colloid, as in laser tweezing experiments, which results in a restoring force attempting to minimize the disclination length. From constant-force simulations we extract the corresponding disclination line tension, estimated as similar to 50 pN, and observe its decrease with increasing temperature.
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