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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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Our work featured in Result of the Month June 2024 on Scienta Omicron

June 21, 2024
Results of our recent paper in Nature Communications titled “Manipulation of Fractionalized Charge in the Metastable Topologically Entangled State of a Doped Wigner Crystal” are featured as a Result of the Month ...
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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

Molecular dynamics of a binary mixture of twist-bend nematic liquid crystal dimers studied by dielectric spectroscopy
Robles-Hernández Beatriz, Nerea Sebastián, Josep Salud, Sergio Diez-Berart, David A. Dunmur, Geoffrey R. Luckhurst, David Orencio López, Fuente M. Rosario de la

Physical review. E, vol. 93, no. 6 (2016), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.062705, COBISS.SI-ID: 30010663

Mesophase structure and behaviour in bulk and restricted geometry of a dimeric compound exhibiting a nematic-nematic transition
Nerea Sebastián

PCCP. Physical chemistry chemical physics : a journal of European Chemical Societies, vol. 18, no. 28 (2016), DOI: 10.1039/C6CP03899A, COBISS.SI-ID: 30010407

Molybdenum carbide nanowires : facile synthesis, a new hybrid phase and their use as transparent electrodes
Damjan Vengust, Jan Ravnik, Aleš Mrzel, Mojca Vilfan

RSC advances, vol. 6, no. 93 (2016), DOI: 10.1039/C6RA18650E, COBISS.SI-ID: 29785895

Dissolution mechanism of upconverting AYF[sub]4:Yb,Tm (A = Na or K) nanoparticles in aqueous media
Darja Lisjak, Olivija Plohl, Janja Vidmar, Boris Majaron, Maja Ponikvar-Svet

Langmuir, vol. 32, no. 32 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02675, COBISS.SI-ID: 29679655

Dynamic assembly of magnetic colloidal vortices
Tomaž Mohorič, Gašper Kokot, Natan Osterman, Alexey Snezhko, Andrej Vilfan, Dušan Babič, Jure Dobnikar

Langmuir, vol. 32, no. 20 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00722, COBISS.SI-ID: 29511463

Thiol click chemistry on gold-decorated MoS[sub]2 : elastomer composites and structural phase transitions
Peter Topolovšek, Luka Cmok, Christoph Gadermaier, Miloš Borovšak, Janez Kovač, Aleš Mrzel

Nanoscale, vol. 8, no. 19 (2016), DOI: 10.1039/c6nr01490a, COBISS.SI-ID: 29499687

Spontaneous liquid crystal and ferromagnetic ordering of colloidal magnetic nanoplate
M. Shuai, Alenka Mertelj, Darja Lisjak, Martin Čopič

Nature communications, vol. 7 (2016), DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10394, COBISS.SI-ID: 29253927

One-pass manufacturing of multimaterial colloidal particles using optical recognition-enhanced laser direct imaging lithography
Blaž Kavčič, Gašper Kokot, Igor Poberaj, Dušan Babič, Natan Osterman

Applied physics express, vol. 9 (2016), DOI: 10.7567/APEX.9.026501, COBISS.SI-ID: 29246247