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On extracting momentum from supports: the bullet in the beam problem
Xiaoyu Zheng, Tianyi Guo, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
To gain insights into momentum transfer from the supporting environment, we consider the simple problem of a bullet, fired from below, into a wooden beam resting on two supports. T…
On quantifying the spin angular momentum density of light
Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
In addition to energy, light carries linear and angular momentum. These are key quantities in rapidly developing optics research and in technologies focusing on light induced force…
The effects of network architecture on the photomechanical performance of azo-acrylate liquid crystal elastomers
Anastasiia Svanidze, Sudarshan Kundu, Olena Iadlovska +3
Azo-containing liquid crystal elatomers are photomechanical materials which can be actuated by illumination. The photomechanical response is a result of the photoisomerization of t…
Anticlinic order of long-range repulsive rod-like magnetic particles in 2D
Xiaoyu Zheng, Obeng Appiagyei Addai, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
In the field of liquid crystals, it is well-known that rod-like molecules interacting via long-range attractive interactions or short-range repulsive potentials can exhibit orienta…
Cavity volume and free energy in many-body systems
Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga +2
Within this work we derive and analyse an expression for the free energy of a single-species system in the thermodynamic limit in terms of a generalised cavity volume, that is exac…
The Freedericksz transition in a spatially varying magnetic field
Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Much is known about the Freedericksz transition induced by uniform electric and magnetic fields in nematic liquid crystals. Here we study the effects of a spatially varying field o…