Publications

Z. Kutnjak, S. Kralj, G. Lahajnar, and S. Žumer, Calorimetric study of 8CB liquid crystal confined to controlled-pore glass, Phys. Rev. E 68, 021705 (2003) [abstract] [PDF].

P. Ziherl and S. Žumer, Morphology and structure of thin liquid-crystalline films at nematic-isotropic transition, Euro. Phys. J. E 12, 3361-3635 (2003), [abstract] [PDF] [PS].

A. Borštnik Bračić;, K. Kočevar, I. Muševič, and S. Žumer, Capillary forces in a confined isotropic-nematic liquid crystal, Phys. Rev. E 68, 011708 (2003), [abstract] [PDF].

B. Markun and S. Žumer, Pseudo-Casimir force in chiral smectic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 68, 021704 (2003), [abstract] [PDF].

N. V. Priezjev, G. Skačej, R. A. Pelcovits, S. Žumer, External and intrinsic anchoring in nematic liquid crystals: A Monte Carlo study, Phys. Rev. E 68, 041709 (2003), [abstract] [PDF] [e-print].

Z. Bradač, S. Kralj, M. Svetec, and S. Žumer, Annihilation of nematic point defects: Postcollision scenarios, Phys. Rev. E 67, 050702(R) (2003) [abstract] [PDF].

C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, A. Šarlah, C. Zannoni, and S. Žumer, Structures and transitions in thin hybrid nematic films: A Monte Carlo study, Phys. Rev. E 67, 050703(R) (2003) [abstract] [PDF].

D. Svenšek, Backflow-affected reorientation dynamics in liquid crystals, (PhD thesis, Mar. 2003) [PDF].

D. Svenšek and S. Žumer, Hydrodynamics of pair-annihilating disclinations in SmC films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 155501 (2003), [abstract] [PDF].

T. Jin, G. P. Crawford, R. J. Crawford, S. Žumer, and D. Finotello, Surface ordering transitions at a liquid crystal-solid interface above the isotropic smectic A transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90,015504 (2003), [abstract] [PDF].

C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, G. Skačej, C. Zannoni, and S. Žumer, Nematics with dispersed polymer fibrils: A Monte Carlo study of the external field-induced switching, Phys. Rev. E 67, 010701(R) (2003), [abstract] [PDF].

P. Ziherl and S. Žumer, P. Ziherl and S. Žumer respond, Eur Phys J E 12, 373 (2003) [abstract] [PDF].