Fig. 8: Defect density and time correlation for hypocycloid rings.
From: Defect dynamics in active smectics induced by confining geometry and topology
Sample time evolution of defect number density and the results of autocorrelation Cn(τ) (each averaged over 80 runs for t = 105–106 with system grid size 512 × 512) for various hypocycloid rings at v0 = 0.31. Sample snapshots of the ψ field spatial profile are also shown, with the white-circled region corresponding to the local defect trapping near a cusp of n = 6 hypocycloid ring as seen in Supplementary Movie 8.
