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most citedCell sorting by active forces in a phase-field model of cell monolayers

9 citations · 12 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Spatial self-organization driven by temporal noise

Satyam Anand, Guanming Zhang, Stefano Martiniani

The counterintuitive emergence of order from noise is a central phenomenon in science, ranging from pattern formation and synchronization to order-by-disorder in frustrated systems…

cond-mat.soft2025

A unifying approach to self-organizing systems interacting via conservation laws

Frank Barrows, Guanming Zhang, Satyam Anand +5

We present a unified framework for embedding and analyzing dynamical systems using generalized projection operators rooted in local conservation laws. By representing physical, bio…

cs.LG2025

Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning As Neural Manifold Packing

Guanming Zhang, David J. Heeger, Stefano Martiniani

Contrastive self-supervised learning based on point-wise comparisons has been widely studied for vision tasks. In the visual cortex of the brain, neuronal responses to distinct sti…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Emergent universal long-range structure in random-organizing systems

Satyam Anand, Guanming Zhang, Stefano Martiniani

Self-organization through noisy interactions is ubiquitous across physics, mathematics, and machine learning, yet how long-range structure emerges from local noisy dynamics remains…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Absorbing state dynamics of stochastic gradient descent

Guanming Zhang, Stefano Martiniani

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a fundamental tool for training deep neural networks across a variety of tasks. In self-supervised learning, different input categories map to…

physics.bio-ph2024★ 9 cited

Cell sorting by active forces in a phase-field model of cell monolayers

James N. Graham, Guanming Zhang, Julia M. Yeomans

Cell sorting, the segregation of cells with different properties into distinct domains, is a key phenomenon in biological processes such as embryogenesis. We use a phase-field mode…

physics.bio-ph2023

Stress-shape misalignment in confluent cell layers

Mehrana R. Nejad, Liam J. Ruske, Molly McCord +4

This study investigates the relationship between cell shape and cell-generated stresses in confluent cell layers. Using simultaneous measurements of cell shape orientation and cell…

cond-mat.soft2021

Active forces in confluent cell monolayers

Guanming Zhang, Julia M. Yeomans

We use a computational phase-field model together with analytical analysis to study how inter-cellular active forces can mediate individual cell morphology and collective motion in…