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A minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds
Olivia Pomerenk, Kenneth S. Breuer
Collective patterns of motion emerge across biological taxa: insects swarm, fish school, and birds flock. In particular, many large migratory bird species form distinctly ordered V…
A flat-band perspective on the boson peak in amorphous solids
Shivam Mahajan, Long-Zhou Huang, Cunyuan Jiang +4
The boson peak is a characteristic anomaly of amorphous solids broadly defined as a low-energy excess in the density of states and heat capacity compared to the textbook prediction…
Accurate Modeling of Interfacial Thermal Transport in van der Waals Heterostructures via Hybrid Machine Learning and Registry-Dependent Potentials
Wenwu Jiang, Hekai Bu, Ting Liang +4
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable thermal anisotropy due to their strong intralayer covalent bonding and weak interlayer van der Waals (vdW…
Moiré-Driven Interfacial Thermal Transport in Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Wenwu Jiang, Ting Liang, Hekai Bu +2
Cross-plane thermal conductivity in homogeneous transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibits a strong dependence on twist angle, originating from atomic reconstruction within m…
Atomistic mechanisms of dynamics in a two-dimensional dodecagonal quasicrystal
Kun Zhao, Matteo Baggioli, Wen-Sheng Xu +2
Quasicrystals have been observed in a variety of materials ranging from metal alloys to block copolymers. However, their structural and dynamical properties cannot be readily descr…
Vortex breakdown in the shear-driven flow in a rectangular cavity
H. Wang, X. Yu, S. T. Chan +3
The vortex dynamics of laminar flow past a rectangular cavity is investigated using simulations and experiments. The flow is three-dimensional and characterized by a large, dominan…