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Janus skyrmion: Interfacial quasiparticle with two-faced helicity
Xichao Zhang, Rui Zhang, Qiming Shao +4
Janus particles are functional particles with at least two surfaces showing asymmetric properties. We show at the interface between two magnetic regions with different antisymmetri…
Emergent discrete space-time crystal of Majorana-like quasiparticles in chiral liquid crystals
Hanqing Zhao, Rui Zhang, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Time crystals spontaneously break the time translation symmetry, as recently has been frequently reported in quantum systems. Here we describe the observation of classical analogue…
Quorum sensing of light-activated colloids in nematic liquid crystals
Antonio Tavera-Vázquez, David Martin, Haijie Ren +5
Motile living organisms routinely probe their surroundings to adapt in ever-evolving environments. Although synthetic microswimmers offer surrogates for self-propelled living entit…
Omnidirectionally manipulated skyrmions in an orientationally chiral system
Jiahao Chen, Wentao Tang, Xingzhou Tang +7
Skyrmions, originally from condensed matter physics, have been widely explored in various physical systems, including soft matter. A crucial challenge in manipulating topological s…
Diffusion asymmetry of repulsive skyrmions in structured environment
Xichao Zhang, Charles Reichhardt, Cynthia J. O. Reichhardt +5
The diffusion of matter in structured environments can give rise to emergent phenomena that do not occur in unstructured environments. Here, we report the asymmetric diffusion of m…
Topological Defects Mediate Collective Transport of Confluent Cells
Jiusi Zhang, Chung Wing Chan, Bo Li +1
Collective cell migration governs a range of physiological and pathological processes, from tissue morphogenesis to cancer invasion, in which topological defects arise as an inevit…
Elongated vortex quantum droplets in binary Bose-Einstein condensates
Guilong Li, Zibin Zhao, Rui Zhang +4
Stability of elongated (``slender") quantum droplets (QDs) with embedded unitary and multiple vorticity is a problem that was not solved previously. In this work, we propose a solu…