Physics
Our faculty collaborate with colleagues across the world and conduct experimental and theoretical research funded by sources including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Petroleum Research Fund.
Recent research awards include:- Professor Charles Agosta: National Science Foundation grant titled “Inhomogeneity and Charge Modulation in Unconventional Superconductors” Professor Michael Boyer: National Science Foundation grant titled “The Nanoscale Effects of Intrinsic and Externally-Applied Strain on Charge Density Wave States”
- Professor Arshad Kudrolli: National Science Foundation grant titled “Intruder dynamics in fluid saturated granular medium”
- Professor Alexander Petroff: American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) grant titled “Experimental Investigations of Oxygen Dynamics in Natural Sediment”
Submissions from 2025
Copper(II) complexes of hindered diazines: tetramethylpyrazine, Robert T. Butcher, Christopher Landee, Diane A. Dickie, and Mark M. Turnbull
Dipolar bosons in a twisted bilayer geometry, Chao Zhang, Zhijie Fan, Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone, and Youjin Deng
Submissions from 2024
Coordination complexes of isoquinoline with cobalt and nickel halides, Michelle A. Bellerive, Michael T. Kebede, Diane A. Dickie, Christopher Landee, Melanie Rademeyer, and Mark Turnbull
Copper(II) salts and complexes of 2-amino-5-nitropyridine*, Andrew G. Bellesis, Alexander J. Villani-Gale, Diane A. Dickie, Jerry P. Jasinki, Christopher Landee, Jan L. Wikaira, Roger D. Willett, and Mark M. Turnbull
Energetics of twisted elastic filament pairs, Julien Chopin, Animesh Biswas, and Arshad Kudrolli
Memory in cyclically crumpled sheets, Amit Dawadi and Arshad Kudrolli
Synthesis, coordination modes, structures, and magnetic properties of halogen-substituted 2-hydroxypyridine, Mathew R. Graci, Firas F. Awwadi, Diane A. Dickie, Christopher Landee, and Mark M. Turnbull
Thermocrystallization of lattice dipolar bosons coupled to a high-finesse cavity, Yaghmorassene Hebib, Chao Zhang, Massimo Boninsegni, and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Copper(II) complexes of hindered diazines: methylquinoxalines, Christopher Landee, Mark M. Turnbull, Diane A. Dickens, Brendan Twambley, and Jan L. Wikaira
Bendability parameter for twisted ribbons to describe longitudinal wrinkling and delineate the near-threshold regime, Madelyn Leembruggen, Jovana Andrejevic, Arshad Kudrolli, and Chris H. Rycroft
Settling of two rigidly connected spheres, Z. Maches and Morgane Houssais
Copper bromide complexes with triethylbenzylammonium (TEBA): the ladder complex (TEBA)2Cu2Br6, the polymorph dimer α-(TEBA)2Cu2Br6, and the monomeric salt (TEBA)2CuBr4, Jeffrey C. Monroe, Christopher Landee, and Mark M. Turnbull
Trapping and scattering of a multiflagellated bacterium by a hard surface, Alexander P. Petroff and Schuyler McDonough
Soft matter physics of the ground beneath our feet, Anne Voigtländer, Morgane Houssais, Karol A. Bacik, Ian C. Bourg, Justin C. Burton, Karen E. Daniels, Sujit S. Datta, Emanuela Del Gado, Nakul S. Deshpande, Olivier Devauchelle, Behrooz Ferdowsi, Rachel Glade, Lucas Goehring, Ian J. Hewitt, Douglas Jerolmack, Ruben Juanes, Arshad Kudrolli, Ching Yao Lai, Wei Li, Claire Masteller, Kavinda Nissanka, Allan M. Rubin, Howard A. Stone, Jenny Suckale, Nathalie M. Vriend, John S. Wettlaufer, and Judy Q. Yang
Submissions from 2023
Pyridyl-imidazole copper compounds, Alma Araujo Martinez, Christopher L. Landee, Diane Dickie, Jan L. Wikaira, Fan Xiao, and Mark M. Turnbull
A family of methoxide-bridged Cu(II) compounds with N-heterocyclic ligands: dimers and chains, Alma P. Araujo-Martinez, Kesli Faber, Diane A. Dickie, Christopher P. Landee, Mark M. Turnbull, Brendan Twamley, and Nathan Huynh
Halogen bond and polymorphism in trans-bis(2-iodo-5-halopyridine)dihalocopper(ii) complexes: crystallographic, theoretical and magnetic studies, Firas F. Awwadi, Manal I. Alwahsh, Mark M. Turnbull, and Christopher Landee
Copper(II) halide salts of 5-bromo-2-aminopyridine and 3,5-dibromo-2-aminopyridine: syntheses, structures and magnetic behavior, Charlotte P. Bedford, Christopher Landee, Mark M. Turnbull, and Jan L. Wikaira
Dynamics of magnetoelastic robots in water-saturated granular beds, Animesh Biswas, Trinh Huynh, Balaram Desai, Max Moss, and Arshad Kudrolli
Escape dynamics of confined undulating worms, Animesh Biswas and Arshad Kudrolli
The odd-even effect in n-carboxyalkylammonium-containing organic-inorganic hybrids of Mn(ii) halides: structural and magnetic characterisation, Shalene N. Bothma, Charles J. Sheppard, Mark M. Turnbull, Christopher P. Landee, and Melanie Rademeyer
Organic–Inorganic Manganese (II) Halide Hybrid Combining the Two Isomers Cis/Trans of [MnCl4(H2O)2]: Crystal Structure, Physical Properties, Pharmacokinetics and Biological Evaluation, Mansoura Bourwina, Sandra Walha, Najeh Krayem, Riadh Badraoui, Faten Brahmi, Mark M. Turnbull, Wejdan M. Alshammari, Mejdi Snoussi, Thierry Roisnel, and Houcine Naïli
Dissolution-driven propulsion of floating solids, Martin Chaigne, Michael Berhanu, and Arshad Kudrolli
Satellite ligand effects on magnetic exchange in dimers. A structural, magnetic and theoretical investigation of Cu2L2X4 (L = methylisothiazolinone and X = Cl−, Br−), Stefan Coetzee, Mark M. Turnbull, Christopher Landee, Jeffrey C. Monroe, Mercè Deumal, Juan J. Novoa, and Melanie Rademeyer
Closed ecosystems extract energy through self-organized nutrient cycles, Akshit Goyal, Avi I. Flamholz, Alexander P. Petroff, and Arvind Murugan
Quantum phases of lattice dipolar bosons coupled to a high-finesse cavity, Yaghmorassene Hebib, Chao Zhang, Jin Yang, and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Copper(II) halide complexes of aminopyridines: Synthesis, structure, and magnetic behavior of neutral compounds of 5-IAP: (5-IAP)2CuCl2·H2O, [(5-IAP)2CuBr2]2, (5-IAP)2CuBr2 and (5-IAP)3CuCl2·nH2O (5IAP = 2-amino-5-iodopyridine), Nathan V. Huynh, Lixin Li, Christopher Landee, Louise N. Dawe, Diane A. Dickie, Mark M. Turnbull, and Jan. L. Wikaira
Cluster scaling and critical points: A cautionary tale, W. Klein, Harvey Gould, and Sakib Matin
Superconductivity and Fermi Surface Studies of β″-(BEDT-TTF)2[(H2O)(NH4)2Cr(C2O4)3]·18-Crown-6, Brett Laramee, Raju Ghimire, David Graf, Lee Martin, Toby J. Blundell, and Charles Agosta
Computational model of twisted elastic ribbons, Madelyn Leembruggen, Jovana Andrejevic, Arshad Kudrolli, and Chris H. Rycroft
Tetrahalidocuprate(II) complexes with substituted pyridinium ions: effects of halide substitution, Lixin Li, Alexander Shapiro, Firas F. Awwadi, Christopher P. Landee, Mark M. Turnbull, and Jan L. Wikaira
Berezinskii—Kosterlitz—Thouless correlations in copper-based quasi-2D spin systems (Review Article), D. Opherden, F. Bärtl, M.S.J. Tepaske, C.P Landee, J. Wosnitza, and H. Kühne
Field-Tunable Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Correlations in a Heisenberg Magnet, D. Opherden, M.S.J. Tepaske, F. Bärtl, M. Weber, M.M Turnbull, T. Lancaster, S.J. Blundell, M. Baenitz, J. Wosnitza, C.P. Landee, R. Moessner, and D.J. Luitz
Density-mediated spin correlations drive edge-to-bulk flow transition in active chiral matter, Alexander P. Petroff, Christopher Whittington, and Arshad Kudrolli
Temperature evolution of domains and intradomain chirality in 1T- TaS2, Boning Yu, Ghilles Ainouche, Manoj Singh, Bishnu Sharma, James Huber, and Michael Boyer
Superconducting Transition Temperature of the Bose One-Component Plasma, Chao Zhang, Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone, Massimo Boninsegni, Nikolay V. Prokof'ev, and Boris V. Svistunov
Submissions from 2022
Nonadditive drag of tandem rods drafting in granular sediments, Brian Chang and Arshad Kudrolli
Tensional twist-folding of sheets into multilayered scrolled yarns, Julien Chopin and Arshad Kudrolli
A Database for Crystalline Organic Conductors and Superconductors, Owen Ganter, Kevin Feeny, Morgan Brooke-Debock, Stephen M. Winter, and Charles C. Agosta
Braiding properties of worldline configurations in hardcore lattice bosons, Fabio Lingua, Wei Wang, Liana Shpani, and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Phases of active matter composed of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria near a hard surface, Alexander Petroff, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon, Ben Roque, and Pradeep Kumar
Alcove formation in dissolving cliffs driven by density inversion instability, Ram Sudhir Sharma, Michael Berhanu, and Arshad Kudrolli
Lattice-driven chiral charge density wave state in 1T-TaS2, Manoj Singh, Boning Yu, James Huber, Bishnu Sharma, Ghilles Ainouche, Ling Fu, Jasper Van Wezel, and Michael C. Boyer
Supersolid phases of lattice dipoles tilted in three dimensions, Jin Zhang, Chao Zhang, Jin Yang, and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Submissions from 2021
Mitigating exhalation puffs during oxygen therapy for respiratory disease, Arshad Kudrolli, Brian Chang, Jade Consalvi, Anton Deti, Christopher Frechette, Helen Scoville, Geoffrey R. Sheinfeld, and William T. McGee
Drag anisotropy of cylindrical solids in fluid-saturated granular beds, Ankush Pal and Arshad Kudrolli
Ground states of two-dimensional tilted dipolar bosons with density-induced hopping, Chao Zhang, Jin Zhang, Jin Yang, and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Submissions from 2020
Aerial mucosalivary droplet dispersal distributions with implications for disease mitigation, Brian Chang, Ram Sudhir Sharma, Trinh Huynh, and Arshad Kudrolli
Unstable Invasion of Sedimenting Granular Suspensions, Arshad Kudrolli, Rausan Jewel, Ram Sudhir Sharma, and Alexander P. Petroff
Interplay of charge density wave states and strain at the surface of CeTe2, Bishnu Sharma, Manoj Singh, Burhan Ahmed, Boning Yu, Philip Walmsley, Ian R. Fisher, and Michael C. Boyer
Permutation cycles of hardcore Bose-Hubbard models on square and kagome lattices, L. Shpani, F. Lingua, W. Wang, and B. Capogrosso-Sansone
Asymmetry between Activators and Deactivators in Functional Protein Networks, Ammar Tareen, Ned S. Wingreen, and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Submissions from 2019
Cell geometry and leaflet bilayer asymmetry regulate domain formation in plasma membranes, Md Zulfikar Ali, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Ned S. Wingreen, and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Effective drag of a rod in fluid-saturated granular beds, Benjamin Allen and Arshad Kudrolli
Extraterrestrial prebiotic molecules: photochemistry vs. radiation chemistry of interstellar ices, Chris R. Arumainayagam, Robin T. Garrod, Michael C. Boyer, Aurland K. Hay, Si Tong Bao, Jyoti S. Campbell, Jingqiao Wang, Chris M. Nowak, Michael R. Arumainayagam, and Peter J. Hodge
Burrowing dynamics of aquatic worms in soft sediments, Arshad Kudrolli and Bernny Ramirez
Birth and decay of tensional wrinkles in hyperelastic sheets, Andreea Panaitescu, Meng Xin, Benny Davidovitch, Julien Chopin, and Arshad Kudrolli
Detection of methoxymethanol as a photochemistry product of condensed methanol, Hope Schneider, Anna Caldwell-Overdier, Sophie Coppieters 'T Wallant, Lan Dau, Jean Huang, Ifunanya Nwolah, Muhammad Kasule, Christina Buffo, Ella Mullikin, Lily Widdup, Aury Hay, Si Tong Bao, Jeniffer Perea, Mayla Thompson, Rhoda Tano-Menka, Mileva Van Tuyl, Amy Wang, Sophia Bussey, Nina Sachdev, Christine Zhang, Michael C. Boyer, and Christopher R. Arumainayagam
Density Wave Probes Cuprate Quantum Phase Transition, Tatiana A. Webb, Michael C. Boyer, Yi Yin, Debanjan Chowdhury, Yang He, Takeshi Kondo, T. Takeuchi, H. Ikuta, Eric W. Hudson, Jennifer E. Hoffman, and Mohammad H. Hamidian
Submissions from 2018
Inhomogeneous superconductivity in organic and related superconductors, Charles C. Agosta
Hidden long evolutionary memory in a model biochemical network, Md Zulfikar Ali, Ned S. Wingreen, and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Granular bed consolidation, creep, and armoring under subcritical fluid flow, Benjamin Allen and Arshad Kudrolli
Corner singularities and shape of stretched elastic sheets, Julien Chopin, Andreea Panaitescu, and Arshad Kudrolli
Magnetic-field-induced 1st order transition to FFLO state at paramagnetic limit in 2D superconductors, N. A. Fortune, C. C. Agosta, S. T. Hannahs, and J. A. Schleuter
Micromechanics of intruder motion in wet granular medium, Rausan Jewel, Andreea Panaitescu, and Arshad Kudrolli
Tension-dependent transverse buckles and wrinkles in twisted elastic sheets, A. Kudrolli and J. Chopin
Multiworm algorithm quantum Monte Carlo, F. Lingua, B. Capogrosso-Sansone, A. Safavi-Naini, A. J. Jahangiri, and V. Penna
Condensed-Phase Photochemistry in the Absence of Radiation Chemistry, Ella Mullikin, Pierce Van Mulbregt, Jeniffer Perea, Muhammad Kasule, Jean Huang, Christina Buffo, Jyoti Campbell, Leslie Gates, Helen M. Cumberbatch, Zoe Peeler, Hope Schneider, Julia Lukens, Si Tong Bao, Rhoda Tano-Menka, Subha Baniya, Kendra Cui, Mayla Thompson, Aury Hay, Lily Widdup, Anna Caldwell-Overdier, Justine Huang, Michael C. Boyer, Mahesh Rajappan, Geraldine Echebiri, and Christopher R. Arumainayagam
Persistence of Perfect Packing in Twisted Bundles of Elastic Filaments, Andreea Panaitescu, Gregory M. Grason, and Arshad Kudrolli
Modeling evolution of crosstalk in noisy signal transduction networks, Ammar Tareen, Ned S. Wingreen, and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Quantum Monte Carlo study of the long-range site-diluted XXZ model as realized by polar molecules, C. Zhang and B. Capogrosso-Sansone
Equilibrium phases of dipolar lattice bosons in the presence of random diagonal disorder, C. Zhang, A. Safavi-Naini, and B. Capogrosso-Sansone
Submissions from 2017
Calorimetric Measurements of Magnetic-Field-Induced Inhomogeneous Superconductivity above the Paramagnetic Limit, Charles C. Agosta, Nathanael A. Fortune, Scott T. Hannahs, Shuyao Gu, Lucy Liang, Ju Hyun Park, and John A. Schleuter
Depth resolved granular transport driven by shearing fluid flow, Benjamin Allen and Arshad Kudrolli
Headward growth and branching in subterranean channels, Arshad Kudrolli, Nikolay Ionkin, and Andreea Panaitescu
Thermometry of bosonic mixtures in Optical Lattices via Demixing, F. Lingua, B. Capogrosso-Sansone, F. Minardi, and V. Penna
Drag law for an intruder in granular sediments, Andreea Panaitescu, Xavier Clotet, and Arshad Kudrolli
Measuring geometric frustration in twisted inextensible filament bundles, Andreea Panaitescu, Gregory M. Grason, and Arshad Kudrolli
The Z2 toric-code and the double-semion topological order of hardcore Bose-Hubbard-type models in the strong-interaction limit, Wei Wang and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Physical model of protein cluster positioning in growing bacteria, Vaibhav Wasnik, Hui Wang, Ned S. Wingreen, and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Submissions from 2016
The Signature of Inhomogeneous Superconductivity, Charles C. Agosta, Logan Bishop-Van Horn, and Max Newman
The role of low-energy (≤ 20 eV) electrons in astrochemistry, Michael C. Boyer, Nathalie Rivas, Audrey A. Tran, Clarissa A. Verish, and Christopher R. Arumainayagam
Disclinations, e-cones, and their interactions in extensible sheets, Julien Chopin and Arshad Kudrolli
Suppression of Superfluid Density and the Pseudogap State in the Cuprates by Impurities, Unurbat Erdenemunkh, Brian Koopman, Ling Fu, Kamalesh Chatterjee, W. D. Wise, G. D. Gu, E. W. Hudson, and Michael C. Boyer
Origin of a superlattice observed in L i0.9 M o6 O17 by scanning tunneling microscopy, Ling Fu, Aaron M. Kraft, Martha Greenblatt, and Michael C. Boyer
Multiple charge density wave states at the surface of TbT e3, Ling Fu, Aaron M. Kraft, Bishnu Sharma, Manoj Singh, Philip Walmsley, Ian R. Fisher, and Michael C. Boyer
Evolution of Porosity and Channelization of an Erosive Medium Driven by Fluid Flow, Arshad Kudrolli and Xavier Clotet
Critical shear rate and torque stability condition for a particle resting on a surface in a fluid flow, Arshad Kudrolli, David Scheff, and Benjamin Allen
Sheared Dense Granular Flows, Andreea Panaitescu, Ashish V. Orpe, and Arshad Kudrolli
Quasi-molecular bosonic complexes-a pathway to SQUID with controlled sensitivity, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone, Anatoly Kuklov, and Vittorio Penna
Inter-species entanglement of Bose-Bose mixtures trapped in optical lattices, Wei Wang, Vittorio Penna, and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Submissions from 2015
Pearling and arching instabilities of a granular suspension on a super-absorbing surface, Julien Chopin and Arshad Kudrolli
Onset of erosion of a granular bed in a channel driven by fluid flow, Anyu Hong, Mingjiang Tao, and Arshad Kudrolli
Modeling curvature-dependent subcellular localization of the small sporulation protein spovm in bacillus subtilis, Vaibhav Wasnik, Ned S. Wingreen, and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Submissions from 2014
Quantum mechanics, objective reality, and the problem of consciousness, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Epitaxial growth of ordered and disordered granular sphere packings, Andreea Panaitescu and Arshad Kudrolli
Modeling the dynamics of dendritic actin waves in living cells, Vaibhav Wasnik and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Submissions from 2013
Helicoids, wrinkles, and loops in twisted ribbons, Julien Chopin and Arshad Kudrolli
Speed of a swimming sheet in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids, Moumita Dasgupta, Bin Liu, Henry C. Fu, Michael Berhanu, Kenneth S. Breuer, Thomas R. Powers, and Arshad Kudrolli
Effect of aspect ratio on the development of order in vibrated granular rods, Vikrant Yadav, Jean Yonnel Chastaing, and Arshad Kudrolli
