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Why shaking faster does not untangle: frequency-selective extraction of filaments from tangled matter
Ishant Tiwari, Sutikshan Bansal, Rosalind Huang +4
Tangles of soft filaments are ubiquitous, from living worm blobs to the cables in a desk drawer. How do such tangles, held together by friction and entanglement, respond when one e…
Worm Blobs as Entangled Living Polymers: From Topological Active Matter to Flexible Soft Robot Collectives
Antoine Deblais, K. R. Prathyusha, Rosa Sinaasappel +4
Recently, long and slender living worms have garnered significant interest because of their impressive ability to exhibit diverse emergent behaviors in highly entangled physical an…
Self-learning mechanical circuits
Vishal P. Patil, Ian Ho, Manu Prakash
Adaptivity and learning are ubiquitous in living systems, from cytoplasm and biofilms to animal flocks. However, the problem of designing nonliving mechanical systems capable of se…
Ultrafast reversible self-assembly of living tangled matter
Vishal P. Patil, Harry Tuazon, Emily Kaufman +4
Tangled active filaments are ubiquitous in nature, from chromosomal DNA and cilia carpets to root networks and worm blobs. How activity and elasticity facilitate collective topolog…
Harmonic flow field representations of quantum bits and gates
Vishal P. Patil, Žiga Kos, Jörn Dunkel
We describe a general procedure for mapping arbitrary -qubit states to two-dimensional (2D) vector fields. The mappings use complex rational function representations of individu…
Chiral Edge Modes in Helmholtz-Onsager Vortex Systems
Vishal P. Patil, Jörn Dunkel
Vortices play a fundamental role in the physics of two-dimensional (2D) fluids across a range of length scales, from quantum superfluids to geophysical flows. Despite a history dat…
Discharging dynamics of topological batteries
Vishal P. Patil, Žiga Kos, Miha Ravnik +1
Topological constraints have long been known to provide efficient mechanisms for localizing and storing energy across a range of length scales, from knots in DNA to turbulent plasm…
Controlling fracture cascades through twisting and quenching
Ronald H. Heisser, Vishal P. Patil, Norbert Stoop +1
Fracture limits the structural stability of macroscopic and microscopic materials, from beams and bones to microtubules and nanotubes. Despite recent progress, fracture control con…