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 …

The physics of soft-matter systems controlled by external fields is reviewed and previewed.
Particular emphasis is placed on statistical properties of well-characterized colloidal …

We describe a simple method for creating multiple optical tweezers from a single laser beam
using diffractive optical elements. As a demonstration of this technique, we have …

We study the phase behavior of a charged two-dimensional colloidal system in the presence
of a periodic light field composed of two interfering laser beams. Above a certain light …

We present results from an extensive series of simulations and analytical work on driven
vortex lattices interacting with periodic arrays of pinning sites. An extremely rich variety of …

We investigate the phase behavior of a two-dimensional suspension of charge stabilized
polystyrene spheres in the presence of a one-dimensional periodic light field. With …

We show, using numerical simulations, that a rich variety of novel colloidal crystalline states
are realized on square and triangular two-dimensional periodic substrates which can be …

The physics of colloidal suspensions confined in slits and cavities has significantly
advanced during the last twenty years. In particular, freezing transitions in confinement have …

We demonstrate that particles confined to two dimensions (2D) and subjected to a one-
dimensional (1D) periodic potential exhibit a rich phase diagram, with both “locked floating …

We analyze a bubble-forming system composed of particles with competing long-range
repulsive and short-range attractive interactions driven over a quasi-one-dimensional …