Uniform triangular crystals are the ground state for particles that interact isotropically in two dimensions. However, when immersed in an external potential, for example, one arising from an electric field, a flow field, ...

We investigate the self-assembly of vortices in a type-II superconducting disk subjected to highly nonuniform confining potentials produced by inhomogeneous magnetic textures. Using a series of numerical experiments performed ...

A theoretical and experimental analysis of a spatial instability developing in a homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal film is presented. The explanation for the existence of this instability is supplied through ...

Electrically driven nematic liquid crystals layers are ideal contexts for studying the interactions of local topological defects, umbilical defects. In homogeneous samples the number of defects is expected to decrease ...

A focusing Kerr Fabry-P´erot cavity operating in a negative diffraction regime exhibits transverse propagating fronts connecting two different nematic liquid crystal molecule average orientations. Under an inhomogeneous spatial ...

We report on the critical current density J c and the vortex dynamics of pristine and 3 MeV proton irradiated (cumulative dose equal to cm-2) β-FeSe single crystals. We also analyze a remarkable dependence of the superconducting ...

When nonequilibrium extended homogeneous systems exhibit multistability, it leads to the presence of domain walls between the existing equilibria. Depending on the stability of the steady states, the dynamics differs. Here, ...