Fusion and fission of particle-like chiral nematic vortex knots
Materials and sample preparation The chiral LC mixture used was prepared from 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl (5CB, EM Chemicals), doped with…
Experimentally achieving minimal dissipation via thermodynamically optimal transport
We begin by implementing a translation and compression protocol—a simple yet highly controllable process — to experimentally characterize…