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Entangling macroscopic diamonds at room temperature: Bounds on the continuous-spontaneous-localization parameters
S. Belli, R. Bonsignori, G. D'Auria +5
A recent experiment [K. C. Lee et al., Science 334, 1253 (2011)] succeeded in detecting entanglement between two macroscopic specks of diamonds, separated by a macroscopic distance…
Cholesterics of colloidal helices: Predicting the macroscopic pitch from the particle shape and thermodynamic state
Simone Dussi, Simone Belli, René van Roij +1
Building a general theoretical framework to describe the microscopic origin of macroscopic chirality in (colloidal) liquid crystals is a long-standing challenge. Here, we combine c…
Density Functional Theory for Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals
S. Belli, S. Dussi, M. Dijkstra +1
Even though chiral nematic phases were the first liquid crystals experimentally observed more than a century ago, the origin of the thermodynamic stability of cholesteric states is…
Critical Casimir Forces and Colloidal Phase Transitions in a Near-Critical Solvent : A Simple Model Reveals a Rich Phase Diagram
John R. Edison, Nikos Tasios, Simone Belli +3
From experimental studies it is well-known that colloidal particles suspended in a near-critical binary solvent exhibit interesting aggregation phenomena, often associated with col…
Free Minimization of the Fundamental Measure Theory Functional: Freezing of Parallel Hard Squares and Cubes
S. Belli, M. Dijkstra, R. van Roij
Due to remarkable advances in colloid synthesis techniques, systems of squares and cubes, once an academic abstraction for theorists and simulators, are nowadays an experimental re…
Depletion-induced biaxial nematic states of boardlike particles
Simone Belli, Marjolein Dijkstra, René van Roij
With the aim of investigating the stability conditions of biaxial nematic liquid crystals, we study the effect of adding a non-adsorbing ideal depletant on the phase behavior of co…