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Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Wetting and Drop Dynamics

Chapter in Understanding Complex Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2010) 241-274

Authors:

Halim Kusumaatmaja, Julia M Yeomans
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Link invariants, the chromatic polynomial and the Potts model

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics International Press of Boston 14:2 (2010) 507-540

Authors:

Paul Fendley, Vyacheslav Krushkal
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Lord Flowers: 1924-2010 OBITUARY

ADVANCES IN PHYSICS 59:6 (2010) PII 927726568
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Low-temperature dynamical structure factor of the two-leg spin-1/2 Heisenberg ladder

PHYSICAL REVIEW B 82:10 (2010) ARTN 104417

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WD Goetze, U Karahasanovic, FHL Essler
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Mesoscopic modelling of colloids in chiral nematics.

Faraday Discuss 144 (2010) 159-169

Authors:

Miha Ravnik, Gareth P Alexander, Julia M Yeomans, Slobodan Zumer

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We present numerical modelling of colloidal particles in chiral nematics with cubic symmetry (blue phases) within the framework of the Landau-de Gennes free energy. The interaction potential of a single, nano-sized colloidal particle with a -1/2 disclination line is calculated as a generic trapping mechanism for particles within the cholesteric blue phases. The interaction potential is shown to be highly anisotropic and have threefold rotational symmetry. We discuss the equilibration of the colloidal texture with respect to particle positions and the unit cell size of the blue phase. We also describe how preservation of the liquid crystal volume and the number of particles allows blue phase colloidal structures with different unit cell sizes and configurations to be compared numerically.
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