Research & Publications

`Research interests`

molecular motors (dynein)

critical phenomena in low-dimensional systems
colloidal systems
melting of 2D molecular crystals

structural forces, van der Waals forces
collective fluctuations in liquid crystals
wetting
phase and structural transitions
dynamic light scattering

More extensive information: curriculum vitae, bibliography, and research statement (April 2, 2009)

`Publications & preprints`

13.	A. Sarlah, E. Frey, and T. Franosch, Spin models for orientational ordering of colloidal molecular crystals, Phys. Rev. E. 75, 021402 (2007) + Virtual Journal of Nanoscience & Technology 15 (2007). [abstract] [manuscript]
12.	M. Conradi, P. Ziherl, A. Sarlah and I. Musevic, Colloids on free-standing smectic films, Eur. Phys. J. E. 20, 231 (2006). [abstract]
11.	A. Sarlah, T. Franosch, and E. Frey, Melting of colloidal molecular crystals on triangular lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 088302 (2005). [abstract][manuscript]
10.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer, Introduction to micro- and macroscopic descriptions of nematic liquid crystalline films: Structural and fluctuation forces, Chapter in a book Surfaces and Interfaces of Liquid Crystals, Th. Rasing and I. Musevic (Eds.), 211-247, (Springer, Berlin, 2004).
9.	C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, A. Sarlah, C. Zannoni, and S. Zumer, Structures and transitions in thin hybrid nematic films: A Monte Carlo study, Phys. Rev. E. 67 , 050703(R) (2003) [manuscript (272 kB)] (PDF file) [abstract]
8.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer, Forces in constrained nematic liquid crystals, submitted [manuscript (2842 kB)]
7.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer, Van der Waals interaction mediated by optically uniaxial layer, Phys. Rev. E. 64, 051606 (2001) [manuscript (147 kB)] (PDF file) [abstract]
6.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer, Casimir interactions and stability of thin nematic films, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 364, 443 (2001). [manuscript (242 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file) [pdf (191 kB)]
5.	S. Zumer, A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and R. Podgornik, Orientational fluctuations and pseudo-Casimir force in confined nematic liquid crystals, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 358, 83 (2001). [manuscript (139 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file)
4.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer, Equilibrium structures and pretransitional fluctuations in a very thin hybrid nematic film, Phys. Rev. E. 60, 1821 (1999). [manuscript (356 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file) [abstract]
3.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer, Soft modes in confined nematic liquid crystals, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 329, 413 (1999). [manuscript (164 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file)
2.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer, Fluctuations in confined liquid crystals and pretransitional evanescent light scattering, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 320, 231 (1998). [manuscript (132 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file)
1.	P. Ziherl, A. Sarlah, and S. Zumer, Collective fluctuations and wetting in nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 58, 602 (1998). [manuscript (322 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file) [abstract]

`PhD Thesis`

October 27, 2001
Effect of confining substrates on the nematic order-fluctuations in liquid crystals
[complete manuscript (1631 kB)] (extended abstract in Slovene and the thesis in English), [extended abstract (575 kB)] (in Slovene), [thesis (1392 kB)] (in English)

`Invited talks`

4.	Liquid crystalline colloidal dispersions, September 2003, lecture given at Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany
3.	Phase transitions, liquid crystals & colloids, June 2003, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
2.	Effect of the confining substrates on nematic order-fluctuations in liquid crystals, May 2002, lecture given at Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany
1.	Effect of the confining substrates on nematic order-fluctuations in liquid crystals, November 2001, lecture given at Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bologna, Italy

`Conference contributions`

21.	A. Sarlah, T. Franosch, and E. Frey Taljenje koloidnih molekulskih kristalov na trikotnih mrezah Poster presented at the 4th Slovene National Conference for Physicists in Basic Research; November 14 2004, Cerkno, Slovenia
20.	A. Sarlah, T. Franosch, and E. Frey Phase behavior of a 2D colloidal system on a triangular lattice Poster presented at the conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, ECIS'04; September 19-24 2004, Almerimar (Almeria), Spain [abstract (40 kB)] and [slides]
19.	A. Sarlah, T. Franosch, and E. Frey Phase behavior of a 2D colloidal system on a triangular lattice Poster presented at the International liquid crystal conference, ILCC'04; July 4-9 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia [abstract (40 kB)] and [slides]
18.	A. Sarlah, T. Franosch, and E. Frey Phase behavior of a 2D colloidal system on a triangular lattice Poster presented at the Conference Colloidal dispersions in external fields, CODEF; March 29-April 1 2004, Bonn, Germany [abstract (13 kB)] and [poster]
17.	A. Sarlah, T. Franosch, and E. Frey Phase behavior of a 2D colloidal system on a triangular lattice Oral contribution at the Meeting of the German Physical Society: Spring meeting of the Condensed matter section; March 8-12 2004, Regensburg, Germany [abstract (40 kB)] and [slides]
16.	A. Sarlah and E. Frey Phase behavior of a 2D colloidal system under the influence of 2D periodic external potentials Poster presented at the ESF Exploratory Workshop: Liquid crystalline colloidal dispersions; August 28-30 2003, Bled, Slovenia [abstract (22 kB)] and [poster]
15.	A. Sarlah in S. Zumer Van der Waalsova sila med makroskopskimi telesi v urejenem tekocem kristalu Poster presented at the 3rd Slovene National Conference for Physicists in Basic Research; October 11 2002, Lasko, Slovenia [abstract (22 kB)] and [poster (580 kB)] (PDF files in Slovene)
14.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer Van der Waals interaction and stability of multilayered liquid-crystalline systems Poster presented at the EPS: Liquid Matter Conference, Liquids'02; September 14-18 2002, Konstanz, Germany [abstract (15 kB)] and [poster (577 kB)] (PDF files)
13.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer Van der Waals interaction and stability of multilayered liquid-crystalline systems Oral contribution at the International Liquid Crystal Conference, ILCC'02; July 1-5 2002, Edinburgh, UK [abstract(20 kB)] and [slides (3569 kB)] (PDF file/PowerPointShow file)
12.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer Van der Waals interaction between anisotropic dielectric bodies Poster presented at the CNLS 21st Annual International Conference, Principles of Soft Matter; May 21-25 2001, Santa Fe (NM), USA [abstract (20 kB)] and [poster (1669 kB)] (PDF files)
11.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer Van der Waals and structural forces: stability of thin liquid-crystalline films Poster presented at the European Conference on Liquid Crystals, ECLC'01; March 25-30 2001, Halle (Saale), Germany [abstract (8 kB)] and [poster (1804 kB)] (PDF files)
10.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer Strukturne sile in stabilnost tankih nematskih filmov (Slovene) Oral contribution presented at the 2nd Slovene National Conference for Physicists in Basic Research; November 9 2000, Zrece, Slovenia [abstract (31 kB)] and [slides (1453 kB)] (PDF files) (Slovene)
9.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer Structural forces and instability of very thin hybrid nematic depositions Poster presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer simulations of defects in liquid crystals and their relation to experiment and theory; September 18-24 2000, Erice, Italy [abstract (24 kB)] and [poster (1067 kB)] (PDF files)
8.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer Structures and structural forces in a very thin hybrid nematic film Oral contribution presented at the SILC Mini School; April 15-18 2000, Portoroz, Slovenia [slides (306 kB)] (PDF file)
7.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer Collective fluctuations in a very thin hybrid nematic film and evanescent light scattering Oral contribution presented at the 8th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, OLC'99; September 26-October 1 1999, Humacao, Puerto Rico [abstract (24 kB)] and [slides (307 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file/PDF file)
6.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer Pretransitional fluctuations in highly frustrated hybrid nematic film Poster presented at the conference of the European Physical Society, EPS-11: Trends in Physics; September 6-10 1999, London, UK (Prize-winning poster of the Young Physicists Poster Prize Competition) [abstract (23 kB)] and [poster (459 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript files)
5.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer Pretransitional ordering and dynamics in a hybrid nematic film Poster presented at the European Conference on Liquid Crystals, ECLC'99; April 25-30 1999, Hersonissos (Crete), Greece [abstract (29 kB)] and [poster (567 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript files)
4.	A. Sarlah and S. Zumer Pretransitional fluctuations in a very thin hybrid film Oral contribution presented at the meeting of the European networks Copernicus and Salc-Net; February 14-21 1999, Moena (Trento), Italy [slides (208 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file)
3.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer Mehki fluktuacijski nacini v ograjenih nematskih tekocih kristalih (Slovene) Poster presented at the 1st Slovene National Conference for Physicists in Basic Research; October 14 1998, Ljubljana, Slovenia [poster (312 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript file) (Slovene)
2.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer Soft modes in confined nematic liquid crystals Poster presented at the International Liquid Crystal Conference, ILCC'98; July 18-24 1998, Strasbourg, France [abstract (15 kB)] and [poster (329 kB)] (ZIP-compressed PostScript files)
1.	A. Sarlah, P. Ziherl, and S. Zumer Pretransitional fluctuations in thin partially ordered nematic films Oral contribution presented at the OLC'97 in Heppenheim, September 1997

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Last update: June 2, 2009.
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