3 papers
cond-mat.soft2021
Topological Floppy Modes in Epithelial Tissues
Harry Liu, Di Zhou, Leyou Zhang +2
Recent advances in topological mechanics have revealed unusual phenomena such as topologically protected floppy modes and states of self-stress that are exponentially localized at…
cond-mat.soft2018
Topological mechanics in quasicrystals
Di Zhou, Leyou Zhang, Xiaoming Mao
We study topological mechanics in two-dimensional quasicrystalline parallelogram tilings. Topological mechanics has been studied intensively in periodic lattices in the past a few…
cond-mat.soft2018
Correlated rigidity percolation and colloidal gels
Shang Zhang, Leyou Zhang, Mehdi Bouzid +3
Rigidity percolation (RP) occurs when mechanical stability emerges in disordered networks as constraints or components are added. Here we discuss RP with structural correlations, a…