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Computational Study of Emergent Behavior in Active Matter Systems with Particle Shape
(2020)
Murmurations of birds, schools of fish, and herds of migrating animals are macroscale examples of self-propelled units exhibiting emergent collective behavior. We call such systems ``active matter''. On the colloidal scale, ...
On-Shell Methods and Effective Field Theory
(2020)
Effective field theory methods are now widely used, in both formal and phenomenological contexts, to efficiently study universal aspects of low-energy physics. In many cases, the computational complexity associated with ...
Design Principles for Nanocrystal Assembly Using Anisotropic Building Blocks
(2020)
Self-assembly of soft matter is a phenomena that can be influenced by multiple factors including particle shape, ligand decoration and thermodynamic properties such as temperature and pressure. In this highly anisotropic ...
The Permeation Behavior of Nanoparticles in Lipid Membranes
(2020)
The number of engineered nanoparticles for applications in the biomedical arena has grown tremendously over the last years due to advances in the science of synthesis and characterization. For most applications, the crucial ...
Dynamical Constraints of Galaxy Clusters via Spectroscopic Observations
(2020)
Galaxy Clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe, residing at the boundary between the expansive push of dark energy in the vacuum and the attractive pull of dark matter the fills the halo in ...
The Study of Exciton-Polariton Phase Transitions Through Spontaneous Vortices and First-Order Correlation
(2020)
Phase transitions are among the most fascinating phenomena discovered in the last century, with collective molecular dynamics leading to novel observations such as superconductivity and superfluidity. Yet even in the ...
A Data-Driven Understanding of Plasma Transport in Saturn's Magnetic Environment
(2020)
In 2004 the Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn. As the first ever Saturn
orbiter, Cassini collected data reaching from the largest moon, Titan, at 20 Saturn
radii (Rs), to the atmosphere during its death plunge in ...