2 papers
physics.optics2010
Local geometry of electromagnetic fields and its role in molecular multipole transitions
Nan Yang, Adam E. Cohen
Electromagnetic fields with complex spatial variation routinely arise in Nature. We study the response of a small molecule to monochromatic fields of arbitrary three-dimensional ge…
cond-mat.soft2004
Kinks, rings, and rackets in filamentous structures
Adam E. Cohen, L. Mahadevan
Carbon nanotubes and biological filaments each spontaneously assemble into kinked helices, rings, and "tennis racket" shapes due to competition between elastic and interfacial effe…