Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics

LL Ma, CY Li, JT Pan, YE Ji, C Jiang, R Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Frontiers in multidimensional self-trap** of nonlinear fields and matter

YV Kartashov, GE Astrakharchik, BA Malomed… - Nature Reviews …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Abstract 2D and 3D solitons and related states, such as quantum droplets, can appear in
optical systems, atomic Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) and liquid crystals, among other …

Nature‐inspired emerging chiral liquid crystal nanostructures: from molecular self‐assembly to DNA mesophase and nanocolloids

L Wang, AM Urbas, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Skyrmion-electronics: writing, deleting, reading and processing magnetic skyrmions toward spintronic applications

X Zhang, Y Zhou, KM Song, TE Park… - Journal of Physics …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The field of magnetic skyrmions has been actively investigated across a wide range of topics
during the last decades. In this topical review, we mainly review and discuss key results and …

Creation and observation of Hopfions in magnetic multilayer systems

N Kent, N Reynolds, D Raftrey, ITG Campbell… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Among topological solitons, magnetic skyrmions are two-dimensional particle-like objects
with a continuous winding of the magnetization, and magnetic Hopfions are three …

Two-dimensional skyrmion bags in liquid crystals and ferromagnets

D Foster, C Kind, PJ Ackerman, JSB Tai, MR Dennis… - Nature Physics, 2019‏ - nature.com
Reconfigurable, ordered matter offers great potential for future low-power computer memory
by storing information in energetically stable configurations. Among these, skyrmions …

Knots and other new topological effects in liquid crystals and colloids

II Smalyukh - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Humankind has been obsessed with knots in religion, culture and daily life for millennia,
while physicists like Gauss, Kelvin and Maxwell already involved them in models centuries …

Hopfions, heliknotons, skyrmions, torons and both abelian and nonabelian vortices in chiral liquid crystals

JS Wu, II Smalyukh - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Widely known for their uses in displays and electro-optics, liquid crystals are more than just
technological marvels. They vividly reveal the topology and structure of various solitonic and …

Binding a hopfion in a chiral magnet nanodisk

Y Liu, RK Lake, J Zang - Physical Review B, 2018‏ - APS
Hopfions are three-dimensional (3D) topological textures characterized by the integer Hopf
invariant QH. Here we present the realization of a zero-field, stable hopfion spin texture in a …

Magnon scattering modulated by omnidirectional hopfion motion in antiferromagnets for meta-learning

Z Zhang, K Lin, Y Zhang, A Bournel, K **a, M Kläui… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Neuromorphic computing is expected to achieve human-brain performance by reproducing
the structure of biological neural systems. However, previous neuromorphic designs based …