activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Orientational bistability and field-controlled switching of a superparamagnetic dimer

James R. N. Tett, Finlay Johnston, Brennan Sprinkle +1

We study the orientational dynamics of superparamagnetic colloidal dimers that carry both an induced magnetic moment, proportional to the applied field, and an effective permanent…

cond-mat.soft2025

Collective Hard Core Interactions Leave Multiscale Signatures in Number Fluctuation Spectra

Eleanor K. R. Mackay, Anna Drummond Young, Adam Carter +2

A full understanding of transport in dense, interacting suspensions requires analysis frameworks sensitive to self and collective dynamics across all relevant spatial and temporal…

cond-mat.soft2025

Decoding Noise in Nanofluidic Systems: Adsorption versus Diffusion Signatures in Power Spectra

Anna Drummond Young, Alice L. Thorneywork, Sophie Marbach

Adsorption processes play a fundamental role in molecular transport through nanofluidic systems, but their signatures in measured signals are often hard to distinguish from other p…

cond-mat.soft2025

Measuring collective diffusion properties by counting particles in boxes

Adam Carter, Eleanor K. R. Mackay, Brennan Sprinkle +2

The collective diffusion coefficient is a key quantity for describing the macroscopic transport properties of soft matter systems. However, measuring $D_\mathrm{c…

cond-mat.soft2024

Interpreting the power spectral density of a fluctuating colloidal current

Stuart F. Knowles, Eleanor K. R. Mackay, Alice L. Thorneywork

The transport of molecules through biological and synthetic nanopores is governed by multiple stochastic processes that lead to noisy, fluctuating currents. Disentangling the chara…

cond-mat.soft2024

The Countoscope: Measuring Self and Collective Dynamics without Trajectories

Eleanor K. R. Mackay, Sophie Marbach, Brennan Sprinkle +1

Driven by physical questions pertaining to quantifying particle dynamics, microscopy can now resolve complex systems at the single particle level, from cellular organisms to indivi…