2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Emergent dimer-model topological order and quasi-particle excitations in liquid crystals: combinatorial vortex lattices
Cuiling Meng, Jin-Sheng Wu, Žiga Kos +3
Liquid crystals have proven to provide a versatile experimental and theoretical platform for studying topological objects such as vortices, skyrmions, and hopfions. In parallel, in…
cond-mat.soft2023
Symmetrically pulsating bubbles swim in an anisotropic fluid by nematodynamics
Sung-Jo Kim, Žiga Kos, Eujin Um +1
Swimming in low-Reynolds-number fluids requires the breaking of time-reversal symmetry and centrosymmetry. Microswimmers, often with asymmetric shapes, exhibit nonreciprocal motion…