2 papers
physics.class-ph2026
A Shape-Preserving Shell Theorem
Penelope Messinger, Stephany M. Rodriguez, Trung V. Phan
We identify all radial interaction potentials that generalize Newton's exterior shell theorem, for which a uniformly distributed spherical shell is indistinguishable from a point-s…
cond-mat.soft2025
Digitization Can Stall Swarm Transport: Commensurability Locking in Quantized-Sensing Chains
Caroline N. Cappetto, Penelope Messinger, Kaitlyn S. Yasumura +7
We present a minimal model for autonomous robotic swarms in one- and higher-dimensional spaces, where identical, field-driven agents interact pairwise to self-organize spacing and…