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Apex Exponents for Polymer--Probe Interactions
Michael Slutsky, Roya Zandi, Yacov Kantor +1
We consider self-avoiding polymers attached to the tip of an impenetrable probe. The scaling exponents and , characterizing the number of configurations for the attachme…
Symmetry-Breaking Motility
Allen Lee, Ha Youn Lee, Mehran Kardar
Locomotion of bacteria by actin polymerization, and in vitro motion of spherical beads coated with a protein catalyzing polymerization, are examples of active motility. Starting fr…
Statistics of lines of natural images and implications for visual detection
Ha Youn Lee, Mehran Kardar
As borders between different regions, lines are an important element of natural images. Already at the level of the mammalian primary visual cortex (V1), neurons respond best to li…
Untangling influences of hydrophobicity on protein sequences and structures
Mehdi Yahyanejad, Christopher B. Burge, Mehran Kardar
We fit the Fourier transforms of solvent accessibility and hydrophobicity profiles of a representative set of proteins to a joint multi-variable Gaussian. This allows us to separat…
Casimir forces, surface fluctuations, and thinning of superfluid films
Roya Zandi, Joseph Rudnick, Mehran Kardar
Recent experiments on the wetting of He have shown that the film becomes thinner at the transition, and in the superfluid phase. The difference in thickness above and bel…