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cond-mat.soft2024
Statistical mechanics of an active wheel rolling in circles
Shubham Sharma, Deepak Kumar
Vibrated granular matter constitutes a useful system for studying the physics of active matter. Usually, self-propulsion is induced in grains through suitable asymmetry in the part…
cond-mat.soft2024
Geometry-induced friction at a soft interface
Aashna Chawla, Deepak Kumar
Soft and biological matter come in a variety of shapes and geometries. When soft surfaces that do not fit into each other due to a mismatch in Gaussian curvatures form an interface…