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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.soft2021★ 10 cited

Modulated phases of nematic liquid crystals induced by tetrahedral order

Michely P. Rosseto, Jonathan V. Selinger

Recent theoretical research has developed a general framework to understand director deformations and modulated phases in nematic liquid crystals. In this framework, there are four…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 10 cited

Dynamic control of speed and trajectories of active droplets in a nematic environment by electric field and focused laser beam

Mojtaba Rajabi, Hend Baza, Hao Wang +1

One objective of active matter science is to unveil principles by which chaotic microscale dynamics could be transformed into useful work. A nematic liquid crystal environment offe…

cond-mat.soft2021

Coarse-grained theory for motion of solitons and skyrmions in liquid crystals

Cheng Long, Jonathan V. Selinger

Recent experiments have found that applied electric fields can induce motion of skyrmions in chiral nematic liquid crystals. To understand the magnitude and direction of the induce…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 2 cited

A model liquid crystal cell in an RC circuit

Eugene C. Gartland

A nematic liquid-crystal cell subject to an electric field created by electrodes held at constant potential is modeled as a variable capacitor in an RC circuit. The state of the sy…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 81 cited

Director Deformations, Geometric Frustration, and Modulated Phases in Liquid Crystals

Jonathan V. Selinger

This article analyzes modulated phases in liquid crystals, from the long-established cholesteric and blue phases to the recently discovered twist-bend, splay-bend, and splay nemati…

cond-mat.soft2021

Impedance Matching in an Elastic Actuator

Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray

We optimize the performance of an elastic actuator consisting of an active core in a host which performs mechanical work on a load. The system, initially with localized elastic ene…