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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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cond-mat.soft2026★ 1 cited

Electrically controlled propulsion of skyrmions in chiral nematic

Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Design of soft matter capable of controllable microscale dynamics is a frontier of modern science. Jiahao Chen et al. demonstrate that an electric field can drive particle-like sol…

cond-mat.soft2026

Deformed states in paraelectric and ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Ground states of materials with orientational order ranging from solid ferromagnets and ferroelectrics to liquid crystals often contain spatially varying vector-like order paramete…

cond-mat.soft2026

Rheological properties and shear-induced structures of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

Ashish Chandra Das, Sathyanarayana Paladugu, Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Recently discovered ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals are fluids with a polar orientational order. The electric polarization vector can be aligned by an electric field and…

cond-mat.soft2025

Polar and apolar light-induced alignment of ferroelectric nematic at photosensitive polymer substrate

Ruslan Kravchuk, Oleksandr Kurochkin, Vassili G. Nazarenko +4

Surface alignment of a recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal (NF) is usually achieved by buffed polymer films, which produce a unidirectional polar alignment of…

cond-mat.soft2025

Helix alignment, chevrons, and edge dislocations in twist-bend ferroelectric nematics

Bijaya Basnet, Priyanka Kumari, Sathyanarayana Paladugu +6

We explore surface alignment and edge dislocations in the recently discovered twist-bend ferroelectric nematic, NTBF, in which the vector of spontaneous polarization follows an obl…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Multistable polar textures in geometrically frustrated nematic liquid crystals

Ufuoma I. Kara, Boyuan Chen, Simon Čopar +10

The ability to manipulate polar entities with multiple external fields opens exciting possibilities for emerging functionalities and novel applications in spin systems, photonics,…