Ospiti
Dati personali :
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Lech Longa Jagellonian University, Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Krakow Pagina web personale |  |
Attivitą di ricerca
Research interest
# Computer Modelling of Soft Matter
# Deterministic chaos and synchronization
# Statistical Field Theory of Polymers and Liquid Crystals
# Chirality
# Stochastic Processes
# Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
Teaching (present and past)
# Statistical mechanics
# Computer Simulations (also in Brazil)
# Phase transitions and critical phenomena (also in Brazil and Italy)
# Symmetry and phase transitions (also in Italy)
# Theory of liquid crystals (also in Italy)
# Doing algebra with computer (Mathematica and Maple packages in action)
# Quantum chemistry
# Quantum mechanics with a computer
Present activity:
theoretical soft matter physics and chaotic dynamics:
exact statistical mechanics of two-dimensional Ising models with periodically distributed impurities;
theory of smectic phases and reentrant phase transitions in strongly polar liquid crystals;
elastic properties of liquid crystals;
Monte Carlo and Molecular dynamics simulations of orientational and positional order in liquid crystals;
orienting properties of surfaces and interfaces,
synchronization of chaotic deterministic systems,
induced and spontaneous chiral structures of soft matter
Periodi di soggiorno nel gruppo :
| [5] | ottobre 2008 | per una durata di 1 mese(i) (Metz-Nancy-Krakow collaboration) |
| [4] | dicembre 2008 | per una durata di 1 mese(i) (Metz-Nancy-Krakow collaboration) |
| [3] | dicembre 2010 | per una durata di 1 settimana(e) (collaboration) |
| [2] | dicembre 2011 | per una durata di 1 settimana(e) (collaboration) |
| [1] | febbraio 2012 | per una durata di 1 mese(i) (collaboration) |
Pubblicazioni in collaborazione coi membri del gruppo :
| [2] | Chiral symmetry breaking in bent-core liquid crystals. Longa L., Pajak G., Wydro T. Phys. Rev. E Rapid Communications 79 (2009) 040701(R) |
| [1] | Stability of biaxial nematic phase for systems with variable molecular shape anisotropy Longa L., Pająk G., Wydro T. Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 011703 |
ArXiv, IOP eprintweb, CiteBase, Scientific Commons, Scitation, Google Scholar.
Seminario(i) del gruppo e conferenza(e) al workshop
| [4] | 27/02/2012 | Biaxial nematic phase: a progress report |
| [3] | 19/01/2009 | Analogy between superconductivity and liquid crystals |
| [2] | 15/12/2008 | Chirality and phase transitions in liquid crystals |
| [1] | 10/11/2008 | Monte Carlo simulation of dipole-induced frustration in smectic layers |