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cond-mat.soft2024
Rigidity transition of a highly compressible granular medium
Samuel Poincloux, Kazumasa A. Takeuchi
A wide range of disordered materials, from biological to geological assemblies, feature discrete elements undergoing large shape changes. How significant geometrical variations at…
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Vortex reversal is a precursor of confined bacterial turbulence
Daiki Nishiguchi, Sora Shiratani, Kazumasa A. Takeuchi +1
Active turbulence, or chaotic self-organized collective motion, is often observed in concentrated suspensions of motile bacteria and other systems of self-propelled interacting age…
cond-mat.soft2024
Approach and rotation of reconnecting topological defect lines in liquid crystal
Yohei Zushi, Cody D. Schimming, Kazumasa A. Takeuchi
Topological defects are a universal concept across many disciplines, such as crystallography, liquid-crystalline physics, low-temperature physics, cosmology, and even biology. In n…