Principles of condensed matter physics
- P. Chaikin, T. Lubensky
- Physics
- 1 September 2000
Preface 1. Overview 2. Structure and scattering 3. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics 4. Mean-field theory 5. Field theories, critical phenomena, and the renormalization group 6. Generalized…
Nonlinear elasticity in biological gels
- C. Storm, J. Pastore, F. MacKintosh, T. Lubensky, P. Janmey
- BiologyNature
- 1 June 2004
A molecular theory that accounts for strain-stiffening in a range of molecularly distinct gels formed from cytoskeletal and extracellular proteins and that reveals universal stress–strain relations at low to intermediate strains is reported.
Topological boundary modes in isostatic lattices
- C. Kane, T. Lubensky
- PhysicsNature Physics
- 2 August 2013
Frames, or lattices consisting of mass points connected by rigid bonds or central-force springs, are important model constructs that have applications in such diverse fields as structural…
State-dependent diffusion: Thermodynamic consistency and its path integral formulation.
- A. Lau, T. Lubensky
- PhysicsPhysical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and…
- 15 July 2007
This work shows that the requirement that a particle's distribution function approach the Boltzmann distribution at long times dictates that a drift term must be added to the Langevin equation, and derives a path integral representation for arbitrary interpretation of the noise.
Microrheology, stress fluctuations, and active behavior of living cells.
- A. Lau, B. Hoffman, A. Davies, J. Crocker, T. Lubensky
- PhysicsPhysical Review Letters
- 1 March 2003
The first measurements of the intrinsic strain fluctuations of living cells are reported using a recently developed tracer correlation technique along with a theoretical framework for interpreting such data in heterogeneous media with nonthermal driving, indicating that the cytoskeleton can be treated as a course-grained continuum with power-law rheology.
TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS AND INTERACTIONS IN NEMATIC EMULSIONS
- T. Lubensky, D. Pettey, Nathan Currier, H. Stark
- Physics
- 11 July 1997
Inverse nematic emulsions, in which surfactant-coated water droplets are dispersed in a nematic host fluid, have distinctive properties that set them apart from dispersions of two isotropic fluids or…
Brownian Motion of an Ellipsoid
- Y. Han, A. Alsayed, M. Nobili, J. Zhang, T. Lubensky, A. Yodh
- PhysicsScience
- 13 March 2006
The Brownian motion of isolated ellipsoidal particles in water confined to two dimensions is studied and the effects of coupling between rotational and translational motion are elucidated by using digital video microscopy and Langevin theory and numerical simulations.
Interactions between membrane Inclusions on Fluctuating Membranes
- Jeong-Man Park, T. Lubensky
- Biology
- 3 January 1996
This work considers the interactions between transmembrane proteins that respect up-down (reflection) symmetry of bilayer membranes and that have circular or non-circular cross-sectional areas in the tangent-plane of membranes, and finds non-entropic 1/R 4 interactions between reflection-symmetry-breaking transmemBRane proteins with circular cross-section that do not break up- down symmetry in agreement with previous calculations.
First-order phase transitions in superconductors and smectic-A liquid crystals
- B. Halperin, T. Lubensky, Shang‐keng Ma
- Physics
- 11 February 1974
The superconducting phase transition is predicted to be weakly first order, because of effects of the intrinsic fluctuating magnetic field, according to a Wilson-Fisher e-expansion analysis, as well…
Granular shear flow dynamics and forces: experiment and continuum theory.
- L. Bocquet, W. Losert, D. Schalk, T. Lubensky, J. Gollub
- Physics, EngineeringPhysical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and…
- 19 December 2000
The functional forms of the velocity and fluctuation profiles predicted by the model agree with the experimental results, especially for the following key features of granular flow: the flow is confined to a small shear band, fluctuations decay approximately exponentially away from the sheared wall, and theShear stress is approximately independent of the shear velocity.
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