Exotic states of matter at room temperature in out of equilibrium liquid crystal cell

Valeska Zambra; Marcel Clerc; Michal Kowalczyk

doi:10.1117/12.2568897

20 August 2020 Exotic states of matter at room temperature in out of equilibrium liquid crystal cell

Valeska Zambra, Marcel Clerc, Michal Kowalczyk

Proceedings Volume 11472, Liquid Crystals XXIV; 1147218 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2568897
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2020, Online Only

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We investigate topological states of matter in a system with injection and dissipation of energy. In an experiment involving a liquid crystal cell under the influence of a low frequency oscillatory electric field, we observe a transition from no vortex state to a state in which vortices persist. Depending on the period and the type of the forcing, the vortices self-organize forming square lattices, glassy states, and disordered vortex structures. Our results show that the matter maintained out of equilibrium by means of the temporal modulation of parameters can exhibit exotic states at room temperature.

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Valeska Zambra, Marcel Clerc, and Michal Kowalczyk "Exotic states of matter at room temperature in out of equilibrium liquid crystal cell", Proc. SPIE 11472, Liquid Crystals XXIV, 1147218 (20 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2568897

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