3 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.soft2024
Chirality, anisotropic viscosity and elastic anisotropy in three-dimensional active nematic turbulence
Nika Kralj, Miha Ravnik, Žiga Kos
Various active materials exhibit strong spatio-temporal variability of their orientational order known as active turbulence, characterised by irregular and chaotic motion of topolo…
cond-mat.soft2024
Many-defect solutions in planar nematics: interactions, spiral textures and boundary conditions
Simon Äopar, Žiga Kos
From incompressible flows to electrostatics, harmonic functions can provide solutions to many two-dimensional problems and, similarly, the director field of a planar nematic can be…