Espalhamento de ondas acústicas em defeitos topológicos

Abstract

Research on topological defects has been of increasing interest in recent years, since no laboratory-produced crystal is perfect, that is, it will always present a remarkable number of defects in its structure. Topological defects have different names that depend particularly on the symmetry breaking of the system. Thus, in this work we investigate the acoustic scattering by rigid scatter included in media with topological defects such as declination and global monopole. For these media the acoustic scattering by solid scatter and isotropic included in liquid crystals in the nematic phase with disclination as well as global monopole defects were investigated. In these systems, the amplitude and the scattering patterns were computed as well as the cross section. The results revealed that for low frequencies and �� < 1 the backscattered wave is dominant, however for values of �� > 1 the spread wave becomes dominant, where �� is the default parameter. For high frequencies, when the value of �� approaches to 0.1 we found that the backscattered wave becomes dominant. We conclude that both the disclination and the global monopoles media have a great advantage in the use in devices that make use of acoustic wave scattering because of the large amplitudes that can be achieved using these cylindrical and spherical structures included in defective fluids.