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cond-mat.soft2026
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…
cond-mat.soft2025
Topological flowscape reveals state transitions in nonreciprocal living matter
Hyunseok Lee, EliseAnne Koskelo, Shreyas Gokhale +7
Nonreciprocal interactions -- where forces between entities are asymmetric -- govern a wide range of nonequilibrium phenomena, yet their role in structural transitions in living an…