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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Simulations of Coulombic Fission of Charged Inviscid Drops
Justin C. Burton, Peter Taborek
We present boundary-integral simulations of the evolution of critically charged droplets. For such droplets, small ellipsoidal perturbations are unstable and eventually lead to the…