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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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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…

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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,…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Spontaneous Cholesteric Phase in Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals: Preference for Integer Number of Pitches

Lincoln Paik, Jonathan V. Selinger

In a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, the electrostatic interaction can induce a spontaneous cholesteric helix, even if the material is not chiral. If the liquid-crystal cell…

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Liquid crystalline structures formed by sphere-rod amphiphilic molecules in solvents

Nilanthi P. Haputhanthrige, Yifan Zhou, Jingfan Wei +3

Self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules is an important phenomenon attracting a broad range of research. In this work, we study the self-assembly of KTOF4 sphere-rod amphiphilic mol…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 18 cited

Twist, splay, and uniform domains in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

Maxim O. Lavrentovich, Priyanka Kumari, Oleg D. Lavrentovich

The newly-discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal exhibits a variety of unique defect phenomena. The depolarization field in the material favors spontaneous spatial variati…