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20052023
most citedLarge work extraction and the Landauer limit in a continuous Maxwell demon

136 citations

16 papers

q-bio.BM2023★ 12 cited

Towards Parsimonious Generative Modeling of RNA Families

Francesco Calvanese, Camille N. Lambert, Philippe Nghe +2

Generative probabilistic models emerge as a new paradigm in data-driven, evolution-informed design of biomolecular sequences. This paper introduces a novel approach, called Edge Ac…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 26 cited

Shear-thickening in presence of adhesive contact forces: the singularity of cornstarch

Anais Gauthier, Guillaume Ovarlez, Annie Colin

A number of dense particle suspensions experience a dramatic increase in viscosity with the shear stress, up to a solid-like response. This shear-thickening process is understood a…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 10 cited

Emulsion Destabilization by Squeeze Flow

Riande I Dekker, Antoine Deblais, Krassimir P Velikov +5

There is a large debate on the destabilization mechanism of emulsions. We present a simple technique using mechanical compression to destabilize oil-in-water emulsions. Upon compre…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 27 cited

A new pressure sensor array for local normal stress measurement in complex fluids

Gauthier Anaïs, Pruvost Mickaël, Gamache Olivier +1

A new pressure sensor array, positioned on the bottom plate of a standard torsional rheometer is presented. It is built from a unique piezo-capacitive polymeric foam, and consists…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 19 cited

Percus-Yevick Structure Factors Made Simple

Robert Botet, Sylvie Kwok, Bernard Cabane

Measuring the structure factor, S(q), of a dispersion of particles by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering provides a unique method to investigate the spatial arrangement of colloidal part…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020

Work extraction, information-content and the Landauer bound in the continuous Maxwell Demon

Marco Ribezzi-Crivellari, Felix Ritort

In a recent paper we have introduced a continuous version of the Maxwell demon (CMD) that is capable of extracting large amounts of work per cycle by repeated measurements of the s…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 136 cited

Large work extraction and the Landauer limit in a continuous Maxwell demon

Marco Ribezzi-Crivellari, Felix Ritort

The relation between entropy and information dates back to the classical Maxwell demon (MD) paradox, a thought experiment proposed in 1867 by J. C. Maxwell to violate the second la…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 4 cited

Apollonian Emulsions

Sylvie Kwok, Robert Botet, Abdulwahed Shglabow +1

We have discovered the existence of extremely polydisperse High Internal-Phase-Ratio Emulsions (HIPE) in which the internal-phase droplets, present at 95% volume fraction, remain s…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 16 cited

Packing polydisperse colloids into crystals: when charge-dispersity matters

Guillaume Bareigts, Pree-Cha Kiatkiakajorn, Joaquim Li +5

Monte-Carlo simulations and small-angle x-ray scattering experiments were used to determine the phase diagram of aqueous dispersions of titratable nano-colloids with a moderate siz…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 13 cited

Apollonian Packing in Polydisperse Emulsions

Sylvie Kwok, Robert Botet, Lewis Sharpnack +1

We have discovered the existence of polydisperse High Internal-Phase-Ratio Emulsions (HIPE) in which the internal-phase droplets, present at 95% volume fraction, remain spherical a…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 50 cited

Tunable active rotational diffusion in swimming droplets

Adrien Izzet, Pepijn Moerman, Jan Groenewold +2

Here we characterize the motility of athermal swimming droplets within the framework of active rotational diffusion. Just like active colloids, their trajectories can be modeled wi…

q-bio.PE2017★ 2 cited

Natural selection in compartmentalized environment with reshuffling

Anton S. Zadorin, Yannick Rondelez

The emerging field of high-throughput compartmentalized in vitro evolution is a promising new approach to protein engineering. In these experiments, libraries of mutant genotypes a…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 71 cited

Hiding in plain view: Colloidal self-assembly from polydisperse populations

Bernard Cabane, Joaquim Li, Franck Artzner +5

We report small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments on aqueous dispersions of colloidal silica with a broad monomodal size distribution (polydispersity 18%, size 8 nm). Over…

q-bio.PE2015★ 41 cited

Hierarchy and extremes in selections from pools of randomized proteins

Sébastien Boyer, Dipanwita Biswas, Ananda Kumar Soshee +3

Variation and selection are the core principles of Darwinian evolution, yet quantitatively relating the diversity of a population to its capacity to respond to selection is challen…

q-bio.CB2014★ 105 cited

Individuality and universality in the growth-division laws of single E. coli cells

Andrew S. Kennard, Matteo Osella, Avelino Javer +5

The mean size of exponentially dividing E. coli cells cultured in different nutrient conditions is known to depend on the mean growth rate only. However, the joint fluctuations rel…

math.NT2005

A new algorithm to search for small nonzero |x^3 - y^2| values

I. Jimenez Calvo, J. Herranz, G. Saez

In relation to Hall's conjecture, a new algorithm is presented to search for small k = |x^3 -y^2| values. Thirteen new values of k < x^(1/2) are reported.