Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Effects of topological constraints on linked ring polymers in solvents of varying quality Authors: Z. Dehaghani, I. Chubak, C. Likos, and M. Ejtehadi Soft Matter 16, p. 3029 (2020); DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02374G 2. Circular Polycatenanes: Supramolecular Structures with Topologically Tunable Properties Authors: L. Tubiana, F. Ferrari, and E. Orlandini Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 227801 (2022); […]

Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Paking in d = 2 and d = 3 Authors: Alessio Zaccone Physical Review Letters 128, 028002 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.028002 Recommended with a commentary by Christos Likos, University of Vienna |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_02

1. Active topological glass Authors: Jan Smrek, Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, and Kurt Kremer Nature Communications, 11: 26, 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13696-z 2. Emergence of active topological glass through directed chain dynamics and nonequilibrium phase separation Authors: Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, Kurt Kremer, and Jan Smrek Physical Review Research, 2: 043249, 2020; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043249 […]

Organizers: Alexander GrosbergNew York University Chandra M. Varma, Chief organizerEmeritus, University of California, Riverside Advisory Committee: Paul Chaikin, NYU Steven Girvin, Yale University Andrew Millis, Columbia University Correspondents in the last two years: Anton Akhmerov, Delft University of Technology | View Contributions | Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley | View Contributions | Daniel Arovas, University of […]

Authors: Bianca M. Mladek, Dieter Gottwald, Gerhard Kahl, Martin Neumann, Christos N. Likos http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0511172 Phys. Rev. Lett 96, 45701 (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Daan Frenkel, FOM, Amsterdam. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar06_02)