Soft Condensed Matter

Authors and titles for cond-mat.soft in Oct 2023

[1]  arXiv:2310.00079 [pdf, other]

Title: Inclusions, Boundaries and Disorder in Scalar Active Matter

Authors: Omer Granek, Yariv Kafri, Mehran Kardar, Sunghan Ro, Alexandre Solon, Julien Tailleur

Comments: Review article, feedback is welcome

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[2]  arXiv:2310.00203 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Photosynthetically-powered phototactic active nematic fluids and gels

Authors: Andrii Repula, Colin Gates, Jeffrey C. Cameron, Ivan I. Smalyukh

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[3]  arXiv:2310.00408 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic analysis of conversion-limited phase separation

Authors: Paul C Bressloff

Comments: 23 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[4]  arXiv:2310.00844 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Emergence of compact-disordered phase in a polymer Potts model

Authors: Ryo Nakanishi, Koji Hukushima

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[5]  arXiv:2310.01021 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Crystal nucleation in a vapor deposited Lennard-Jones mixture

Authors: Fabio Leoni, Hajime Tanaka, John Russo

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[6]  arXiv:2310.01026 [pdf, other]

Title: An OrthoBoXY-Method for Various Alternative Box Geometries

Authors: Johanna Busch, Dietmar Paschek

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures. Corrected typos and errors and added an additional new equation (now eq 7). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2307.01591

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[7]  arXiv:2310.01115 [pdf, other]

Title: Emergent reprogrammable mechanical memory in soft rods network via friction tuning

Authors: Harsh Jain, Shankar Ghosh

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[8]  arXiv:2310.01388 [pdf, other]

Title: Cartan media: geometric continuum mechanics in homogeneous spaces

Authors: Lukas Kikuchi, Ronojoy Adhikari

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[9]  arXiv:2310.01559 [pdf, other]

Title: Mechanical Forces Quench Frontal Polymerization: Experiments and Theory

Authors: Xuanhe Li, Tal Cohen

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[10]  arXiv:2310.01572 [pdf, other]

Title: Microhydrodynamics of an autophoretic particle near a plane interface

Authors: Günther Turk, Ronojoy Adhikari, Rajesh Singh

Comments: 25 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[11]  arXiv:2310.01579 [pdf, other]

Title: Titration in Canonical and Grand-Canonical Ensembles

Authors: Amin Bakhshandeh, Yan Levin

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[12]  arXiv:2310.01620 [pdf, other]

Title: Patchy landscapes promote stability of small groups

Authors: Gianni Jacucci, Davide Breoni, Sandrine Heijnen, José Palomo, Philip Jones, Hartmut Löwen, Giorgio Volpe, Sylvain Gigan

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Optics (physics.optics)

[13]  arXiv:2310.01716 [pdf, other]

Title: Active motion of tangentially-driven polymers in periodic array of obstacles

Authors: Mohammad Fazelzadeh, Ehsan Irani, Zahra Mokhtari, Sara Jabbari-Farouji

Comments: 12 pages, 15 figures

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[14]  arXiv:2310.01829 [pdf, other]

Title: Active Caustics

Authors: Rahul Chajwa, Rajarshi, Sriram Ramaswamy, Rama Govindarajan

Comments: 8 main pages, 11 supplementary pages, 3 main figures, 8 supplementary figures, 1 supplementary table

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[15]  arXiv:2310.01919 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle pinning as a method to manipulate marginal stability

Authors: Kumpei Shiraishi, Yusuke Hara

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[16]  arXiv:2310.02400 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Crosslinker energy landscape effects on dynamic mechanical properties of ideal polymer hydrogels

Authors: Eesha Khare, Amadeus Alcantara, Nic Lee, Munir S. Skaf, Markus J. Buehler

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[17]  arXiv:2310.02425 [pdf, other]

Title: Controlling the size and adhesion of DNA droplets using surface-active DNA molecules

Authors: Daqian Gao, Sam Wilken, Anna Nguyen, Gabrielle R. Abraham, Tim Liedl, Omar A. Saleh

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[18]  arXiv:2310.02460 [pdf, other]

Title: Chain trajectories, domain shapes and terminal boundaries in block copolymers

Authors: Benjamin R. Greenvall, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Gregory M. Grason

Comments: 19 pages, 15 figures

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[19]  arXiv:2310.02463 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Ionic Strength on the Morphology, Scattering, and Mechanical Response of Neurofilament-Derived Protein Brushes

Authors: Takashi J. Yokokura, Chao Duan, Erika A. Ding, Sanjay Kumar, Rui Wang

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[20]  arXiv:2310.02475 [pdf, other]

Title: Estimating viscoelastic, soft material properties using a modified Rayleigh cavitation bubble collapse time

Authors: Jin Yang, Alexander McGhee, Griffin Radtke, Mauro Rodriguez Jr., Christian Franck

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[21]  arXiv:2310.02636 [pdf, other]

Title: A Molecular Theory for Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Nematic Ordering, Shape Deformation and Mechanical Response

Authors: Luofu Liu, Rui Wang

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[22]  arXiv:2310.02683 [pdf, other]

Title: Force renormalization for probes immersed in an active bath

Authors: Jeanine Shea, Gerhard Jung, Friederike Schmid

Journal-ref: Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 1767-1785

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[23]  arXiv:2310.02841 [pdf, other]

Title: Droplet tilings in precessive fields: hysteresis, elastic defects, and annealing

Authors: Anton Molina, Manu Prakash

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[24]  arXiv:2310.02929 [pdf, other]

Title: Giant Activity-Induced Stress Plateau in Entangled Polymer Solutions

Authors: Davide Breoni, Christina Kurzthaler, Benno Liebchen, Hartmut Löwen, Suvendu Mandal

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures, and 1 supplemental movie

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[25]  arXiv:2310.03134 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical penetration depth and periodic motion of a photomechanical strip

Authors: Ameneh Maghsoodi, Kaushik Bhattacharya

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Optics (physics.optics)