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Department of Complex Matter
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Dynamics of Quantum matter

We explore non-equilibrium many-body dynamics in quantum systems that experience symmetry-breaking, topological, or jamming transitions. These systems encompass superconductors, charge-density wave, and magnetic materials.

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The research is conducted within the “Light and Matter” research program. The interaction of light with matter is one of the most important fields of physics and optical processes are indispensable in many branches of modern industry.

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Chirality and Magnetism: First General Workshop of COST Action Chiromag

Chirality and Magnetism: First General Workshop of COST Action Chiromag

April 5, 2025
We are excited to share that our department successfully hosted the First General Workshop of the COST Action Chiromag. The event took place at the scenic Hotel Špik in Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia, from March 31 to April ...
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Field-controlled structures in ferromagnetic cholesteric liquid crystals
Peter Medle Rupnik, Darja Lisjak, Martin Čopič, Simon Čopar, Alenka Mertelj

Science advances, vol. 3, no. 10 (2017), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701336, COBISS.SI-ID: 30900775

Dynamic magneto-optic coupling in a ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystal
Tilen Potisk, Daniel Svenšek, Helmut R. Brand, Harald Pleiner, Darja Lisjak, Natan Osterman, Alenka Mertelj

Physical review letters, vol. 119, no. 9 (2017), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.097802, COBISS.SI-ID: 30734631

Distinctive dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystal dimers : [invited]
Nerea Sebastián, Robles-Hernández Beatriz, Sergio Diez-Berart, Josep Salud, Geoffrey R. Luckhurst, David A. Dunmur, David Orencio López, Maria Rosario de la Fuente

Liquid crystals, vol. 44, no. 1 (2017), DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1218963, COBISS.SI-ID: 30686503

Emergence of polar order and tilt in terephthalate based bent-core liquid crystals
Nerea Sebastián, Sebastian Belau, Alexey Eremin, Mohamed Alaasar, Marko Prehm, Carsten Tschierske

PCCP. Physical chemistry chemical physics : a journal of European Chemical Societies, vol. 19, no. 8 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C6CP08145B, COBISS.SI-ID: 30686247

Doping of nematic cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals with mesogen-hybridized magnetic nanoparticles
Ingo Appel, Hajnalka Nádasi, Christian Reitz, Nerea Sebastián, Horst Hahn, Alexey Eremin, Ralf Stannarius, Slike S. Behrens

PCCP. Physical chemistry chemical physics : a journal of European Chemical Societies, vol. 19, no. 19 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CP01438D, COBISS.SI-ID: 30685991

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution
H. Meyer, Aleksander Drenik, Jernej Kovačič, Natan Osterman, Matjaž Panjan, Gregor Primc, Matic Resnik, Rok Zaplotnik, Stefan Costea

Nuclear fusion, vol. 57, no. 10 (2017), DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/aa6084, COBISS.SI-ID: 30616615

Amphiphilic coatings for the protection of upconverting nanoparticles against dissolution in aqueous media
Olivija Plohl, Slavko Kralj, Boris Majaron, Eleonor Fröhlich, Maja Ponikvar-Svet, Darko Makovec, Darja Lisjak

Dalton transactions, vol. 46, no. 21 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/c7dt00529f, COBISS.SI-ID: 30501671

Optothermally driven colloidal transport in a confined nematic liquid crystal
Miha Škarabot, Natan Osterman, Igor Muševič

Soft matter, vol. 13, no. 13 (2017), DOI: 10.1039/c7sm00136c, COBISS.SI-ID: 30397479

Magnetic-field tuning of whispering gallery mode lasing from ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystal microdroplets
Maruša Mur, Junaid Sofi, Ivan Kvasić, Alenka Mertelj, Darja Lisjak, Vidur Niranjan, Igor Muševič, Surajit Dhara

Optics express, vol. 25, no. 2 (2017), DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.001073, COBISS.SI-ID: 30156583

Optical properties of biomimetic probes engineered from erythrocytes
Joshua M. Burns, Rolf Saager, Boris Majaron, Wangcun Jia, Bahman Anvari

Nanotechnology, vol. 28, no. 3 (2017), DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/28/3/035101, COBISS.SI-ID: 30071591

Silicon crystallinity control during laser direct microstructuring with bursts of picosecond pulses
Jaka Mur, Luka Pirker, Natan Osterman, Rok Petkovšek

Optics express, vol. 25, nr. 21 (2017), DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.026356, COBISS.SI-ID: 15709467

High precision laser direct microstructuring system based on bursts of picosecond pulses
Jaka Mur, Jaka Petelin, Natan Osterman, Rok Petkovšek

Journal of physics. D, Applied physics, vol. 50 (2017), DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aa7b5a, COBISS.SI-ID: 15571227

Active turbulence in a gas of self-assembled spinners
Gašper Kokot, Shibananda Das, Roland G. Winkler, Gerhard Gompper, Igor S. Aranson, Alexey Snezhko

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 114, no. 49 (2017), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1710188114, COBISS.SI-ID: 3326052

Dynamic self-assembly and self-organized transport of magnetic micro-swimmers
Gašper Kokot, German V. Kolmakov, Igor S. Aranson, Alexey Snezhko

Scientific reports, vol. 7, art. no. 14726 (2017), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15193-z, COBISS.SI-ID: 3325796

Elucidating the fine details of cholesteric liquid crystal shell reflection patterns
Yong Geng, JungHyun Noh, Irena Drevenšek Olenik, Romano Anton Rupp, Jan P. F. Lagerwall

Liquid crystals, vol. 44, iss. 12/13 (2017), DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2017.1363916, COBISS.SI-ID: 3119972

Optical nonlinear and electro-optical coefficients in bulk aluminium nitride single crystals
Aleksej Majkić, Alexander Franke, Ronny Kirste, Raoul Schlesser, Ramón Collazo, Zlatko Sitar, Marko Zgonik

Physica status solidi. B, Basic research, vol. 254, art. no. 1700077 (2017), DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201700077, COBISS.SI-ID: 3101796

Neutron diffraction from superparamagnetic colloidal crystals
Matjaž Ličen, Irena Drevenšek Olenik, Lucija Čoga, Sašo Gyergyek, Slavko Kralj

The Journal of physics and chemistry of solids, vol. 110 (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2017.05.002, COBISS.SI-ID: 3083364

Electrically tunable generation of vectorial vortex beams with micro-patterned liquid crystal structures
Zhichao Ji, Xinzheng Zhang, Yujiao Zhang, Zhenhua Wang, Irena Drevenšek Olenik, Romano Anton Rupp, Wei Li, Qiang Wu, Jingjun Xu

Chinese optics letters, vol. 15, iss. 7 (2017), DOI: 10.3788/COL201715.070501, COBISS.SI-ID: 3080548

Molecular recognition of a lipophilic guanosine derivative in Langmuir films at the air-water interface
Lucija Čoga, Lea Spindler, Stefano Masiero, Irena Drevenšek Olenik

Biochimica et biophysica acta (G). General subjects, vol. 1861, iss. 5, part b (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.11.038, COBISS.SI-ID: 3041636

A novel strain energy relationship for red blood cell membrane skeleton based on spectrin stiffness and its application to micropipette deformation
Saša Svetina, Gašper Kokot, Tjaša Švelc, Boštjan Žekš, Richard E. Waugh

Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, vol. 15, iss. 3 (2016), DOI: 10.1007/s10237-015-0721-x, COBISS.SI-ID: 32194777

Influence of the chain length on the nematic-to-isotropic phase transition for the odd members of a highly non-symmetric pyrene-based series of liquid crystal dimers : J. Salud ... [et al.]
Josep Salud, David Orencio López, Nerea Sebastián, Maria Rosario de la Fuente, Sergio Diez-Berart, M. B. Ros

Liquid crystals, vol. 43, no. 1 (2016), DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2015.1066890, COBISS.SI-ID: 30017319

Development of polar order in the liquid crystal phases of a 4-cyanoresorcinol-based bent-core mesogen with fluorinated azobenzene wings
Mohamed Alaasar, Marko Prehm, Tamba Maria-Gabriela, Nerea Sebastián, Alexey Eremin, Carsten Tschierske

ChemPhysChem, vol. 17, no. 2 (2016), DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500891, COBISS.SI-ID: 30015271

Polar order and symmetry breaking at the boundary between bent-core and rodlike molecular forms : when 4-cyanoresorcinol meets the carbosilane end group
Eduard Westphal, Hugo Gallardo, Giovanni Finoto Caramori, Nerea Sebastián, Tamba Maria-Gabriela, Alexey Eremin, Susumu Kawauchi, Marko Prehm, Carsten Tschierske

Chemistry : A European Journal, vol. 22, no. 24 (2016), DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503901, COBISS.SI-ID: 30015015

Miscibility studies of two twist-bend nematic liquid crystal dimers with different average molecular curvatures. A comparison between experimental data and predictions of a Landau mean-field theory for the N([sub]-(TB))[sup]N phase transition
David Orencio López, Robles-Hernández Beatriz, Josep Salud, Fuente M. Rosario de la, Nerea Sebastián, Sergio Diez-Berart, X. Jaen, David A. Dunmur, Geoffrey R. Luckhurst

PCCP. Physical chemistry chemical physics : a journal of European Chemical Societies, vol. 18, no. 6 (2016), DOI: 10.1039/C5CP07605F, COBISS.SI-ID: 30010919