2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Reentrant melting of scarred odd crystals by self-shear
Uttam Tiwari, Pragya Arora, A K Sood +3
Spatial confinement can induce geometrical frustration in condensed phases, giving rise to topological defects that confer materials with new and exotic properties. Here, we experi…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
A Single-granule Stirling Heat Engine
Niloyendu Roy, Pragya Arora, A K Sood +1
Single-particle heat engines at atomic and colloidal scales obey the universal thermodynamic bounds on work and efficiency. Here, we translate these principles to the macroscale by…