Dr. Daniel de las Heras

2025

Perayil, Aneena Rinu; Kuświk, Piotr; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Akhundzada, Sapida; Ehresmann, Arno; de las Heras, Daniel; Fischer, Thomas
Topological sorting of magnetic colloidal bipeds
In: Soft Matter Bd. 21 (2025) Heft 14. - S. 2716-2722
doi:10.1039/D4SM01480D ...

Rossi, Anna Maria; Märker, Thomas; Stuhlmüller, Nico C. X.; Kuświk, Piotr; Stobiecki, Feliks; Urbaniak, Maciej; Akhundzada, Sapida; Vereijken, Arne J.; Ehresmann, Arno; de las Heras, Daniel; Fischer, Thomas
Topologically cloaked magnetic colloidal transport
In: Nature Communications Bd. 16 (2025) Heft 1
doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57004-4 ...

2024

Stuhlmüller, Nico C. X.; Fischer, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel
Competition between drift and topological transport of colloidal particles in twisted magnetic ...
In: New Journal of Physics Bd. 26 (2024)
doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ad2a81 ...

Farrokhzad, Farzaneh; Stuhlmüller, Nico C. X.; Kuświk, Piotr; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Akhundzada, Sapida; Ehresmann, Arno; de las Heras, Daniel; Fischer, Thomas
Magnetic colloidal single particles and dumbbells on a tilted washboard moiré pattern in a prec ...
In: Soft Matter Bd. 20 (2024) Heft 46. - S. 9312-9318
doi:10.1039/D4SM01183J ...

Zimmermann, Toni; Sammüller, Florian; Hermann, Sophie; Schmidt, Matthias; de las Heras, Daniel
Neural force functional for non-equilibrium many-body colloidal systems
In: Machine Learning: Science and Technology Bd. 5 (2024) Heft 3
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00008156 ...

Elschner, Jonas; Farrokhzad, Farzaneh; Kuświk, Piotr; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Akhundzada, Sapida; Ehresmann, Arno; de las Heras, Daniel; Fischer, Thomas
Topologically controlled synthesis of active colloidal bipeds
In: Nature Communications Bd. 15 (2024)
doi:10.1038/s41467-024-50023-7 ...

2023

Eckert, Tobias; Schmidt, Matthias; de las Heras, Daniel
Effect of sample height and particle elongation in the sedimentation of colloidal rods
In: Soft Matter Bd. 19 (2023) Heft 12. - S. 2214-2223
doi:10.1039/d3sm00191a ...

Sammüller, Florian; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Inhomogeneous steady shear dynamics of a three-body colloidal gel former
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 158 (2023) Heft 5
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007667 ...

Sammüller, Florian; Hermann, Sophie; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Neural functional theory for inhomogeneous fluids : Fundamentals and applications
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Bd. 120 (2023)
doi:10.1073/pnas.2312484120 ...

Sammüller, Florian; Hermann, Sophie; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Noether-Constrained Correlations in Equilibrium Liquids
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 130 (2023)
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.268203 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Zimmermann, Toni; Sammüller, Florian; Hermann, Sophie; Schmidt, Matthias
Perspective: How to overcome dynamical density functional theory
In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Bd. 35 (2023) Heft 27
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007641 ...

Renner, Johannes; Schmidt, Matthias; de las Heras, Daniel
Reduced-variance orientational distribution functions from torque sampling
In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Bd. 35 (2023) Heft 23
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007638 ...

Stuhlmüller, Nico C. X.; Farrokhzad, Farzaneh; Kuświk, Piotr; Stobiecki, Feliks; Urbaniak, Maciej; Akhundzada, Sapida; Ehresmann, Arno; Fischer, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel
Simultaneous and independent topological control of identical microparticles in non-periodic en ...
In: Nature Communications Bd. 14 (2023)
doi:10.1038/s41467-023-43390-0 ...

2022

Stuhlmüller, Nico C. X.; Fischer, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel
Enhanced colloidal transport in twisted magnetic patterns
In: Communications Physics Bd. 5 (2022)
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006642 ...

Schmidt, Matthias; de las Heras, Daniel; Eckert, Tobias
Sedimentation of colloidal plate-sphere mixtures and inference of particle characteristics from ...
In: Physical Review Research Bd. 4 (2022) Heft 1
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006887 ...

Eckert, Tobias; Schmidt, Matthias; de las Heras, Daniel
Sedimentation path theory for mass-polydisperse colloidal systems
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 157 (2022) Heft 23
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007084 ...

2021

Lachner, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel; Fischer, Thomas
Braiding with magnetic octupoles
In: Physical Review Research Bd. 3 (2021) Heft 1
doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013043 ...

Renner, Johannes; Schmidt, Matthias; de las Heras, Daniel
Custom flow in molecular dynamics
In: Physical Review Research Bd. 3 (2021) Heft 1
doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013281 ...

Eckert, Tobias; Schmidt, Matthias; de las Heras, Daniel
Gravity-induced phase phenomena in plate-rod colloidal mixtures
In: Communications Physics Bd. 4 (2021)
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006027 ...

Hermann, Sophie; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Phase separation of active Brownian particles in two dimensions : anything for a quiet life
In: Molecular Physics Bd. 119 (2021) Heft 10. - S. e1902585
doi:10.1080/00268976.2021.1902585 ...

Mirzaee-Kakhki, Mahla; Ernst, Adrian; de las Heras, Daniel; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Tomita, Andreea; Huhnstock, Rico; Koch, Iris; Ehresmann, Arno; Holzinger, Dennis; Fischer, Thomas
Gauge invariant and gauge dependent aspects of topological walking colloidal bipeds
In: Soft Matter Bd. 17 (2021) Heft 6. - S. 1663-1674
doi:10.1039/D0SM01670E ...

2020

Mirzaee-Kakhki, Mahla; Ernst, Adrian; de las Heras, Daniel; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Tomita, Andreea; Huhnstock, Rico; Koch, Iris; Gördes, Jendrik; Ehresmann, Arno; Holzinger, Dennis; Reginka, Meike; Fischer, Thomas
Colloidal trains
In: Soft Matter Bd. 16 (2020) Heft 6. - S. 1594-1598
doi:10.1039/C9SM02261A ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Flow and Structure in Nonequilibrium Brownian Many-Body Systems
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 125 (2020) Heft 1
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.018001 ...

Mirzaee-Kakhki, Mahla; Ernst, Adrian; de las Heras, Daniel; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Gördes, Jendrik; Reginka, Meike; Ehresmann, Arno; Fischer, Thomas
Simultaneous polydirectional transport of colloidal bipeds
In: Nature Communications Bd. 11 (2020)
doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18467-9 ...

Geigenfeind, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Superadiabatic demixing in nonequilibrium colloids
In: Communications Physics Bd. 3 (2020)
doi:10.1038/s42005-020-0287-5 ...

2019

de las Heras, Daniel; Renner, Johannes; Schmidt, Matthias
Custom flow in overdamped Brownian dynamics
In: Physical Review E Bd. 99 (2019) Heft 2
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.99.023306 ...

González-Pinto, Miguel; Renner, Johannes; de las Heras, Daniel; Martínez-Ratón, Yuri; Velasco, Enrique
Defects in vertically vibrated monolayers of cylinders
In: New Journal of Physics Bd. 21 (2019)
doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ab060b ...

Massana-Cid, Helena; Ernst, Adrian; de las Heras, Daniel; Jarosz, Adam; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Tomita, Andreea; Huhnstock, Rico; Koch, Iris; Ehresmann, Arno; Holzinger, Dennis; Fischer, Thomas
Edge transport at the boundary between topologically equivalent lattices
In: Soft Matter Bd. 15 (2019) . - S. 1539-1550
doi:10.1039/C8SM02005A ...

Rossi, Anna Maria; Bugase, Jonas; Lachner, Thomas; Ernst, Adrian; de las Heras, Daniel; Fischer, Thomas
Hard topological versus soft geometrical magnetic particle transport
In: Soft Matter Bd. 15 (2019) . - S. 8543-8551
doi:10.1039/C9SM01401B ...

Hermann, Sophie; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Non-negative Interfacial Tension in Phase-Separated Active Brownian Particles
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 123 (2019) Heft 26
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.268002 ...

Hermann, Sophie; Krinninger, Philip; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Phase coexistence of active Brownian particles
In: Physical Review E Bd. 100 (2019) Heft 5
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.100.052604 ...

Geigenfeind, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel
Principal component analysis of the excluded area of two-dimensional hard particles
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 150 (2019) Heft 18
doi:10.1063/1.5092865 ...

Brütting, Moritz; Trepl, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Superadiabatic Forces via the Acceleration Gradient in Quantum Many-Body Dynamics
In: Molecules Bd. 24 (2019) Heft 20
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00004695 ...

2018

de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Better Than Counting : Density Profiles from Force Sampling
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 120 (2018) Heft 21
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.218001 ...

Löhr, Johannes; de las Heras, Daniel; Jarosz, Adam; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Tomita, Andreea; Huhnstock, Rico; Koch, Iris; Ehresmann, Arno; Holzinger, Dennis; Fischer, Thomas
Colloidal topological insulators
In: Communications Physics Bd. 1 (2018)
doi:10.1038/s42005-017-0004-1 ...

Geigenfeind, Thomas; Dias, C. S.; Telo da Gama, Margarida M.; de las Heras, Daniel; Araújo, Nuno A. M.
Crossover from three- to six-fold symmetry of colloidal aggregates in circular traps
In: Soft Matter Bd. 14 (2018) Heft 46. - S. 9411-9417
doi:10.1039/C8SM01867G ...

Treffenstädt, Lucas L.; Araújo, Nuno A. M.; de las Heras, Daniel
Percolation of functionalized colloids on patterned substrates
In: Soft Matter Bd. 14 (2018) Heft 18. - S. 3572-3580
doi:10.1039/C8SM00406D ...

Stuhlmüller, Nico C. X.; Eckert, Tobias; de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Structural Nonequilibrium Forces in Driven Colloidal Systems
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 121 (2018) Heft 9
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.098002 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Velocity Gradient Power Functional for Brownian Dynamics
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 120 (2018) Heft 2
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.028001 ...

2017

Löhr, Johannes; de las Heras, Daniel; Lönne, Michael; Bugase, Jonas; Jarosz, Adam; Urbaniak, Maciej; Stobiecki, Feliks; Tomita, Andreea; Huhnstock, Rico; Koch, Iris; Ehresmann, Arno; Holzinger, Dennis; Fischer, Thomas M.
Lattice symmetries and the topologically protected transport of colloidal particles
In: Soft Matter Bd. 13 (2017) Heft 29. - S. 5044-5075
doi:10.1039/c7sm00983f ...

Geigenfeind, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel
The role of sample height in the stacking diagram of colloidal mixtures under gravity
In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Bd. 29 (2017) Heft 6
doi:10.1088/1361-648X/aa4e04 ...

2016

de las Heras, Daniel; Brader, Joseph M; Fortini, Andrea; Schmidt, Matthias
Particle conservation in dynamical density functional theory
In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Bd. 28 (2016) Heft 24
doi:10.1088/0953-8984/28/24/244024 ...

Seiferling, Felix; de las Heras, Daniel; Telo da Gama, Margarida M.
Percolation in binary and ternary mixtures of patchy colloids
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 145 (2016) Heft 7
doi:10.1063/1.4960808 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Treffenstädt, Lucas L.; Schmidt, Matthias
Reentrant network formation in patchy colloidal mixtures under gravity
In: Physical Review E Bd. 93 (2016) Heft 3
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.030601 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; da Gama, Margarida M Telo
Temperature (de)activated patchy colloidal particles
In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Bd. 28 (2016) Heft 24
doi:10.1088/0953-8984/28/24/244008 ...

Löhr, Johannes; Lönne, Michael; Ernst, Adrian; de las Heras, Daniel; Fischer, Thomas M.
Topological protection of multiparticle dissipative transport
In: Nature Communications Bd. 7 (2016)
doi:10.1038/ncomms11745 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Löhr, Johannes; Lönne, Michael; Fischer, Thomas M.
Topologically protected colloidal transport above a square magnetic lattice
In: New Journal of Physics Bd. 18 (2016)
doi:10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/105009 ...

2015

de las Heras, Daniel; Velasco, Enrique; Martínez-Ratón, Yuri
Capillary and winding transitions in a confined cholesteric liquid crystal
In: Soft Matter Bd. 11 (2015) Heft 35. - S. 7038-7045
doi:10.1039/C5SM01036E ...

Geigenfeind, Thomas; Rosenzweig, Sebastian; Schmidt, Matthias; de las Heras, Daniel
Confinement of two-dimensional rods in slit pores and square cavities
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 142 (2015) Heft 17
doi:10.1063/1.4919307 ...

Müller, Thomas; de las Heras, Daniel; Rehberg, Ingo; Huang, Kai
Ordering in granular-rod monolayers driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium
In: Physical Review E Bd. 91 (2015) Heft 6
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.062207 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Sedimentation stacking diagram of binary colloidal mixtures and bulk phases in the plane of che ...
In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Bd. 27 (2015) Heft 19
doi:10.1088/0953-8984/27/19/194115 ...

2014

de las Heras, Daniel; Velasco, Enrique
Domain walls in two-dimensional nematics confined in a small circular cavity
In: Soft Matter Bd. 10 (2014) Heft 11. - S. 1758-1766
doi:10.1039/C3SM52650J ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Full Canonical Information from Grand-Potential Density-Functional Theory
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 113 (2014) Heft 23
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.238304 ...

Fortini, Andrea; de las Heras, Daniel; Brader, Joseph M.; Schmidt, Matthias
Superadiabatic Forces in Brownian Many-Body Dynamics
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 113 (2014) Heft 16
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.167801 ...

2013

de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
Bulk fluid phase behaviour of colloidal platelet–sphere and platelet–polymer mixtures
In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Bd. 371 (2013) Heft 1988
doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0259 ...

Rovigatti, Lorenzo; de las Heras, Daniel; Tavares, José Maria; Telo da Gama, Margarida M.; Sciortino, Francesco
Computing the phase diagram of binary mixtures : A patchy particle case study
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 138 (2013) Heft 16
doi:10.1063/1.4802026 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Schmidt, Matthias
The phase stacking diagram of colloidal mixtures under gravity
In: Soft Matter Bd. 9 (2013) Heft 36. - S. 8636-8641
doi:10.1039/C3SM51491A ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Martínez-Ratón, Yuri; Mederos, Luis; Velasco, Enrique
Two-dimensional nematics in bulk and confined geometries
In: Journal of Molecular Liquids Bd. 185 (2013) . - S. 13-19
doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2012.08.014 ...

2012

de las Heras, Daniel; Tavares, José Maria; Telo da Gama, Margarida M.
Bicontinuous and mixed gels in binary mixtures of patchy colloidal particles
In: Soft Matter Bd. 8 (2012) Heft 6. - S. 1785-1794
doi:10.1039/C1SM06948A ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Doshi, Nisha; Cosgrove, Terence; Phipps, Jonathan; Gittins, David I.; van Duijneveldt, Jeroen S.; Schmidt, Matthias
Floating nematic phase in colloidal platelet-sphere mixtures
In: Scientific Reports Bd. 2 (2012)
doi:10.1038/srep00789 ...

Gnan, Nicoletta; de las Heras, Daniel; Tavares, José Maria; Telo da Gama, Margarida M.; Sciortino, Francesco
Properties of patchy colloidal particles close to a surface : A Monte Carlo and density functio ...
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 137 (2012) Heft 8
doi:10.1063/1.4746428 ...

2011

de las Heras, Daniel; Varga, Szabolcs; Vesely, Franz J.
Mesophase formation in a system of top-shaped hard molecules : Density functional theory and Mo ...
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 134 (2011) Heft 21
doi:10.1063/1.3596749 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Tavares, José Maria; da Gama, Margarida M. Telo
Phase diagrams of binary mixtures of patchy colloids with distinct numbers and types of patches ...
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 134 (2011) Heft 10
doi:10.1063/1.3561396 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Tavares, José Maria; Telo da Gama, Margarida M.
Phase diagrams of binary mixtures of patchy colloids with distinct numbers of patches: the netw ...
In: Soft Matter Bd. 7 (2011) Heft 12. - S. 5615-5626
doi:10.1039/C0SM01493A ...

2010

de las Heras, Daniel; Martínez-Ratón, Yuri; Velasco, Enrique
Phase transitions in nanoconfined binary mixtures of highly oriented colloidal rods
In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Bd. 12 (2010) Heft 36. - S. 10831-10841
doi:10.1039/C003448G ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Martínez-Ratón, Yuri; Velasco, Enrique
Surface and smectic layering transitions in binary mixtures of parallel hard rods
In: Physical Review E Bd. 81 (2010) Heft 2
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.81.021706 ...

2009

de las Heras, Daniel; Mederos, Luis; Velasco, Enrique
Capillary and anchoring effects in thin hybrid nematic films and connection with bulk behavior
In: Physical Review E Bd. 79 (2009) Heft 1
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.79.011712 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Mederos, Luis; Velasco, E.
Density-functional study of defects in two-dimensional circular nematic nanocavities
In: Liquid Crystals Bd. 37 (2009) Heft 1. - S. 45-56
doi:10.1080/02678290903362840 ...

de las Heras, Daniel; Velasco, E.; Mederos, Luis
Topological defects in a two-dimensional liquid crystal confined in a circular nanocavity
In: Physical Review E Bd. 79 (2009) Heft 6
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061703 ...

2007

de las Heras, Daniel; Martínez-Ratón, Yuri; Velasco, Enrique
Demixing and orientational ordering in mixtures of rectangular particles
In: Physical Review E Bd. 76 (2007) Heft 3
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031704 ...

2006

de las Heras, Daniel; Velasco, E.; Mederos, Luis
Capillary effects in a confined smectic phase of hard spherocylinders : Influence of particle e ...
In: Physical Review E Bd. 74 (2006) Heft 1
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011709 ...

2005

de las Heras, Daniel; Velasco, E.; Mederos, Luis
Capillary Smectization and Layering in a Confined Liquid Crystal
In: Physical Review Letters Bd. 94 (2005) Heft 1
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.017801 ...

2004

de las Heras, Daniel; Velasco, E.; Mederos, Luis
Effects of wetting and anchoring on capillary phenomena in a confined liquid crystal
In: The Journal of Chemical Physics Bd. 120 (2004) Heft 10. - S. 4949-4957
doi:10.1063/1.1646374 ...

2003

de las Heras, Daniel; Mederos, Luis; Velasco, E.
Wetting properties of a hard-spherocylinder fluid on a substrate
In: Physical Review E Bd. 68 (2003) Heft 3
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.68.031709 ...