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Quantum liquid-crystal order in resonant atomic gases
Leo Radzihovsky
I review recent studies that predict quantum liquid-crystalline orders in resonant atomic gases. As examples of such putative systems I will discuss an s-wave resonant imbalanced F…
Smectic-glass transition in a liquid crystal cell with a "dirty" substrate
Quan Zhang, Leo Radzihovsky
We explore the smectic liquid crystal order in a cell with a "dirty" substrate imposing random pinnings. Within harmonic elasticity we find a subtle three-dimensional surface disor…
Competition between commensurate and incommensurate magnetic ordering in Fe(1+y)Te
D. Parshall, G. Chen, L. Pintschovius +4
The Fe1+y Te1-x Sex compounds belong to the family of iron-based high temperature superconductors, in which superconductivity often appears upon doping antiferromagnetic parent com…
Finite-momentum superfluidity and phase transitions in a p-wave resonant Bose gas
Sungsoo Choi, Leo Radzihovsky
We study a degenerate two-species gas of bosonic atoms interacting through a p-wave Feshbach resonance as for example realized in a Rb85-Rb87 mixture. We show that in addition to a…
Fluctuations and phase transitions in Larkin-Ovchinnikov liquid crystal states of population-imbalanced resonant Fermi gas
Leo Radzihovsky
Motivated by a realization of imbalanced Feshbach-resonant atomic Fermi gases, we formulate a low-energy theory of the Fulde-Ferrell and the Larkin-Ovchinnikov (LO) states and use…
Nonlinear smectic elasticity of a helical state in cholesterics and helimagnets
Leo Radzihovsky, T. C. Lubensky
General symmetry arguments, dating back to de Gennes dictate that at scales longer than the pitch, the low-energy elasticity of a chiral nematic liquid crystal (cholesteric) and of…