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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 98, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.057801
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Glycerol droplets at a nematic-liquid-crystal-air interface form two different lattices-hexagonal and dense quasi hexagonal-which are separated by the energy barrier and can coexist. Director distortions around each droplet form an elastic dipole. The first order transition between the two lattices is driven by a reduction of the dipole-dipole repulsion through reorientation of these dipoles. The elastic-capillary attraction is essential for the both lattices. The effect has a many-body origin.
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