3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
The Free-Energy Barrier of Precritical Nuclei in Hard Spheres is Consistent with Predictions
Lars Kürten, Antoine Castagnède, Frank Smallenburg +1
Predicting crystal nucleation is among the most significant long--standing challenges in condensed matter. In the system most studied (hard sphere colloids), the comparison between…
cond-mat.soft2025
Tuning Higher Order Structure in Colloidal Fluids
Xiaoyue Wu, Fiona C. Meldrum, Katherine Skipper +2
Colloidal particles self assemble into a wide range of structures under external AC electric fields due to induced dipolar interactions [Yethiraj and Van Blaaderen Nature 421 513 (…
cond-mat.soft2025
Non-reciprocal interactions drive emergent chiral crystallites
S. J. Kole, Xichen Chao, Abraham Mauleon-Amieva +3
We study a new type of 2D active material that exhibits macroscopic phases with two emergent broken symmetries: self-propelled achiral particles that form dense hexatic clusters, w…