Despite progress in the understanding of crystal nucleation and crystal growth since the first
theories for nucleation were developed, an exact quantitative prediction of the nucleation …

Contrary to continuous phase transitions, where renormalization group theory provides a
general framework, for discontinuous phase transitions such a framework seems to be …

We have studied the crystallization behavior of colloidal cubes by means of tunable
depletion interactions. The colloidal system consists of novel micron-sized cubic particles …

In a recent commentary, JM Kosterlitz described how D. Thouless and he got motivated to
investigate melting and suprafluidity in two dimensions [Kosterlitz JM (2016) J Phys …

We discuss qualitative and quantitative aspects of the effective interactions between
micrometer-sized colloids of different types trapped at fluid interfaces, with a particular …

While the melting of crystals is in general not understood in detail on a microscopic scale,
there is a microscopic theory for a class of two‐dimensional crystals, which is based on the …

Topological defects play a pivotal role in the physics of liquid crystals and represent one of
the most prominent and well studied aspects of mesophases. While in two-dimensional …

We study the pattern formation in a two-dimensional system of superparamagnetic colloids
interacting via spatially coherent induced interactions driven by an external precessing …

We present the technical details of an experimental method to realize a model system for
two-dimensional (2D) phase transitions and the glass transition. The system consists of …

Two-dimensional hard-particle systems are rather easy to simulate but surprisingly difficult to
treat by theory. Despite their importance from both theoretical and experimental points of …