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Soft matter physics of the ground beneath our feet
Anne Voigtländer, Morgane Houssais, Karol A. Bacik +24
Inspired by presentations by the authors during a workshop organized at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS) in January 2022, we present a perspective on some of the…
3D tracking of particles in a dusty plasma by laser sheet tomography
Wentao Yu, Justin C. Burton
The collective behavior of levitated particles in a weakly-ionized plasma (dusty plasma) has raised significant scientific interest. This is due to the complex array of forces acti…
Hydrodynamic Collapse of the Leidenfrost Vapor Layer
Dana Harvey, Justin C. Burton
During the Leidenfrost effect, a stable vapor film can separate a hot solid from an evaporating liquid. Eventually, after formation and upon cooling, the vapor layer cannot be sust…
Coalescing Clusters Unveil New Regimes of Frictional Fluid Mechanics
Haicen Yue, Justin C. Burton, Daniel M. Sussman
Droplet coalescence is essential in a host of biological and industrial processes, involving complex systems as diverse as cellular aggregates, colloidal suspensions, and polymeric…
The lifetime of charged dust in the atmosphere
Josh Méndez Harper, Dana Harvey, Tianshu Huang +3
Windblown dust plays critical roles in numerous geophysical and biological systems, yet current models fail to explain the transport of coarse-mode particles (>5 m) to great dis…
Dynamics of Mass Polar Spheroids During Sedimentation
Kavinda J. Nissanka, Xiaolei Ma, Justin C. Burton
The dynamics of sedimenting particles under gravity are surprisingly complex due to the presence of effective long-ranged forces. When the particles are polar with a well-defined s…
Extracting Forces from Noisy Dynamics in Dusty Plasmas
Wentao Yu, Jonathan Cho, Justin C. Burton
Extracting environmental forces from noisy data is a common yet challenging task in complex physical systems. Machine learning represents a robust approach to this problem, yet is…
Relaxation and Recovery in Hydrogel Friction on Smooth Surfaces
Brady Wu, Joshua Méndez Harper, Justin C. Burton
\textbf{Background} Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks that can absorb and retain a large fraction of liquid. Near a critical sliding velocity, hydrogels pressed against sm…
The Minimum Leidenfrost Temperature on Smooth Surfaces
Dana Harvey, Joshua Mendez Harper, Justin C. Burton
During the Leidenfrost effect, a thin insulating vapor layer separates an evaporating liquid from a hot solid. Here we demonstrate that Leidenfrost vapor layers can be sustained at…
Pore-size dependence and slow relaxation of hydrogel friction on smooth surfaces
Nicholas L. Cuccia, Suraj Pothineni, Brady Wu +2
Hydrogel consists of a crosslinked polymer matrix imbibed with a solvent such as water at volume fractions that can exceed 90\%. They are important in many scientific and engineeri…
How to make a giant bubble
Stephen Frazier, Xinyi Jiang, Justin C. Burton
Using mixtures of soap, water, and long chain polymers, free-floating soap bubbles can be formed with volumes approaching 100 m. Here we investigate how such thin films are cre…
Tuning contact line dynamics and deposition patterns in volatile liquid mixtures
Asher P. Mouat, Clay E. Wood, Justin E. Pye +1
The spreading of a pure, volatile liquid on a wettable substrate has been studied in extensive detail. Here we show that the addition of a miscible, non-volatile liquid can strongl…
Intermittent "Turbulence" in a Many-body System
Guram Gogia, Wentao Yu, Justin C. Burton
In natural settings, intermittent dynamics are ubiquitous and often arise from a coupling between external driving and spatial heterogeneities. A well-known example is the generati…
Universal Scaling of Polygonal Desiccation Crack Patterns
Xiaolei Ma, Janna Lowensohn, Justin C. Burton
Polygonal desiccation crack patterns are commonly observed in natural systems. Despite their quotidian nature, it is unclear whether similar crack patterns which span orders of mag…
Self-organized oscillations of Leidenfrost drops
Xiaolei Ma, Justin C. Burton
In the Leidenfrost effect, a thin layer of evaporated vapor forms between a liquid and a hot solid. The complex interactions between the solid, liquid, and vapor phases can lead to…
Precursors to Molecular Slip on Smooth Hydrophobic Surfaces
Justin E. Pye, Clay E. Wood, Justin C. Burton
Experiments and simulations suggest that simple liquids may experience slip while flowing near a smooth, hydrophobic surface. Here we show how precursors to molecular slip can be o…
Emergent Bistability and Switching in a Nonequilibrium Crystal
Guram Gogia, Justin Burton
Multistability is an inseparable feature of many physical, chemical and biological systems which are driven far from equilibrium. In these nonequilibrium systems, stochastic dynami…
Star-shaped Oscillations of Leidenfrost Drops
Xiaolei Ma, Juan-José Liétor-Santos, Justin C. Burton
We experimentally investigate the self-sustained, star-shaped oscillations of Leidenfrost drops. The drops levitate on a cushion of evaporated vapor over a heated, curved surface.…
Casimir effect between pinned particles in two-dimensional jammed systems
Justin C. Burton, Juan-José Liétor-Santos
The Casimir effect arises when long-ranged fluctuations are geometrically confined between two surfaces, leading to a macroscopic force. Traditionally, these forces have been obser…
Echoes from Anharmonic Normal Modes in Model Glasses
Justin C. Burton, Sidney R. Nagel
Glasses display a wide array of nonlinear acoustic phenomena at temperatures K. This behavior has traditionally been explained by an ensemble of weakly-coupled, two-l…
Coalescence of bubbles and drops in an outer fluid
Joseph D. Paulsen, Rémi Carmigniani, Anerudh Kannan +2
When two liquid drops touch, a microscopic connecting liquid bridge forms and rapidly grows as the two drops merge into one. Whereas coalescence has been thoroughly studied when dr…
Collision Dynamics of Particle Clusters in a Two-dimensional Granular Gas
Justin C. Burton, Peter Y. Lu, Sidney R. Nagel
In a granular gas, inelastic collisions produce an instability in which the constituent particles cluster heterogeneously. These clusters then interact with each other, further dec…
Energy Loss at Propagating Jamming Fronts in Granular Gas Clusters
Justin C. Burton, Peter Y. Lu, Sidney R. Nagel
We explore the initial moments of impact between two dense granular clusters in a two-dimensional geometry. The particles are composed of solid CO and are levitated on a hot…
The inexorable resistance of inertia determines the initial regime of drop coalescence
Joseph D. Paulsen, Justin C. Burton, Sidney R. Nagel +3
Drop coalescence is central to diverse processes involving dispersions of drops in industrial, engineering and scientific realms. During coalescence, two drops first touch and then…