3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Steering Active-Colloid Assembly by Biasing Dissipation
Chaoqun Du, Zhiyu Cao, Zhonghuai Hou
Complex nonequilibrium self-assembly enables the formation of materials with specific patterns and functions from the bottom up. How to directionally control the assembly to form t…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Universal trade-off between irreversibility and intrinsic timescale in thermal relaxation with applications to thermodynamic inference
Ruicheng Bao, Chaoqun Du, Zhiyu Cao +1
We establish a general lower bound for the entropy production rate (EPR) based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the Logarithmic-Sobolev constant that characterizes the time-s…
physics.bio-ph2025
Motorized Chromosome Models of Mitosis
Zhiyu Cao, Chaoqun Du, Zhonghuai Hou +1
During mitosis, near-spherical chromosomes reconfigure into rod-like structures to ensure their accurate segregation to daughter cells. We explore here, the interplay between the n…