Two-dimensional skyrmions and other solitonic structures in confinement-frustrated chiral nematics

Nucleation, stability and current-induced motion of isolated magnetic skyrmions in nanostructures

(2013) J. Sampaio et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Current-induced skyrmion dynamics in constricted geometries

(2013) Junichi Iwasaki et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Topological properties and dynamics of magnetic skyrmions

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Optical generation, templating, and polymerization of three-dimensional arrays of liquid-crystal defects decorated by plasmonic nanoparticles

(2013) Julian S. Evans et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Topology and Origin of Effective Spin Meron Pairs in Ferromagnetic Multilayer Elements

(2013) Sebastian Wintz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Generating the Hopf Fibration Experimentally in Nematic Liquid Crystals

(2013) Bryan Gin-ge Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Unwinding of a Skyrmion Lattice by Magnetic Monopoles

(2013) P. Milde et al.   SCIENCE

Shape-Dependent Oriented Trapping and Scaffolding of Plasmonic Nanoparticles by Topological Defects for Self-Assembly of Colloidal Dimers in Liquid Crystals

(2012) Bohdan Senyuk et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical generation of crystalline, quasicrystalline, and arbitrary arrays of torons in confined cholesteric liquid crystals for patterning of optical vortices in laser beams

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Spontaneous atomic-scale magnetic skyrmion lattice in two dimensions

(2011) Stefan Heinze et al.   Nature Physics

Quasi-two-dimensional Skyrmion lattices in a chiral nematic liquid crystal

(2011) Jun-ichi Fukuda et al.   Nature Communications

Production and application of electron vortex beams

(2010) J. Verbeeck et al.   NATURE

Generation of electron beams carrying orbital angular momentum

(2010) Masaya Uchida et al.   NATURE

Three dimensional optical manipulation and structural imaging of soft materials by use of laser tweezers and multimodal nonlinear microscopy

(2010) Rahul P. Trivedi et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of triple-twisted particle-like excitations in anisotropic fluids

(2009) Ivan I. Smalyukh et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet

(2009) S. Muhlbauer et al.   SCIENCE

Linked and knotted beams of light

(2008) William T. M. Irvine et al.   Nature Physics

Knots in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

(2008) Yuki Kawaguchi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Geometrical frustration and defects in condensed matter systems

(2007) Rémy Mosseri   COMPTES RENDUS CHIMIE