Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Properties of Rouse polymers with actively driven regions Authors: Dino Osmanovic J. Chem. Phys. 149, 164911 (2018), DOI: 10.1063/1.5045686 2. Delayed Excitations Induce Polymer Looping and Coherent Motion Authors: Andriy Goychuk, Deepti Kannan, and Mehran Kardar Phys Rev Lett, v. 133, 078101 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.0781016 3. Role of Charge Sequence in Polyampholyte Aggregation Authors: […]

Quantum gas microscopy of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang superdiffusion Authors: David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Kritsana Srakaew, Simon Hollerith, Jun Rui, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Norman Y. Yao, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher arXiv:2107.00038 Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Nonequilibrium Diffusive Dynamics. Authors:A. Aminov, Y. Kafri, and M. Kardar Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 230602(2015) Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Oxford University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2015_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2015_02

Collective Dynamics of Dividing Chemotactic Cells. Authors: Anatolij Gelimson and Ramin Golestanian. Phys.Rev.Lett. 114,028101(2015) Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_03

Pressure and Phase Equilibria in Interacting Active Brownian Spheres. Authors: A. P. Solon, J. Stenhammar, R. Wittkowski, M. Kardar, Y. Kafri, M. E. Cates, J. Tailleur. arXiv:1412.5475 Recommended with a commentary by Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_01

Quorum sensing allows T cells to discriminate between self and nonself Authors: Thomas Charles Butler, Mehran Kardar, and Arup K. Chakraborty Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110, 11833-11838 (2013). Recommended with a commentary by Alex Levine, UCLA |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_03

Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse. Authors: L. Dai, D. Vorselen, K.S. Korolev, J. Gore, Science 336, 1175 (2012). Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) |. DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2013_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2013_03

1. Growing interfaces uncover universal fluctuations behind scale invariance Authors: Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Masaki Sano, Tomohiro Sasamoto and Herbert Spohn Scientic Reports 1, 34 (2011) 2. Universal fluctuations of growing interfaces: evidence in turbulent liquid crystals Authors: Kazumasa A. Takeuchi and Masaki Sano Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230601 (2010) 3. One-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation: an exact […]

1. Robust ecological pattern formation induced by demographic noise Authors: Thomas Butler and Nigel Goldenfeld, Phys. Rev. E 80, 030902(R) (2009) 2. Stochastic Turing patterns in the Brusselator model Authors: Tommaso Biancalani, Duccio Fanelli and Francesca Di Patti http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4984 (2010) Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2010_01 […]

1. Direct measurement of critical Casimir forces Authors: C. Hertlein, L. Helden, A. Gambassi, S. Dietrich, and C. Bechinger, Nature 451, 172 (2008) 2. Critical Casimir Forces in Colloidal Suspensions on Chemically Patterned Surfaces Authors: Florin Soyka, Olga Zvyagolskaya, Christopher Hertlein, Laurent Helden, and Clemens Bechinger, arXiv:0810.1866 Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 208301 (2008) Recommended with […]

Optimization of the antimicrobial activity of magainin peptides by modification of charge Authors: Margitta Dathe, Heike Nikolenko, Jana Meyer, Michael Beyermann, and Michael Bienert FEBS Letters 501, 146-150 (2001) and Physical Basis of Membrane-Charge Selectivity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides Authors: Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 168101-1–16801-4 (2007) Recommended with a commentary […]

Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University | View Contributions | Vivek Aji, University of California, Riverside |  View Contributions | Jason Alicea, California Institute of Technology | View Contributions | David Andelman, Tel Aviv University | View Contributions | Philip Anderson, Princeton University, Princeton | View Contributions | Arezoo M. Ardekani, University of Notre Dame | View Contributions | […]

1. Stochastic gene expressionin a fluctuating environment Authors: M. Thattai and A. van Oudenaarden Science, vol. 167, 523 (2004) 2. Phenotypic diversity, population growth, and information in fluctuating environments Authors: E. Kussell and S. Liebler Science, vol. 309, 2075 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_August06_01)

Authors: M.B. Short, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 018501 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT, and Wim van Saarloos, Institute-Lorentz, Leiden University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_June05_01)

Authors: A. Najafi and R. Golestanian http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0402070 Phys. Rev. E 69, 062901 (2004) Recommended and Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Sep04_02)