Automated discovery of reprogrammable nonlinear dynamic metamaterials

Kavli Affiliate: Katia Bertoldi | First 5 Authors: Giovanni Bordiga, Eder Medina, Sina Jafarzadeh, Cyrill Boesch, Ryan P. Adams | Summary: Harnessing the rich nonlinear dynamics of highly-deformable materials has the potential to unlock the next generation of functional smart materials and devices. However, unlocking such potential requires effective strategies to spatially design optimal material […]


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Control of flow behavior in complex fluids using automatic differentiation

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Brenner | First 5 Authors: Mohammed Alhashim, Kaylie Hausknecht, Michael Brenner, , | Summary: Inverse design of complex flows is notoriously challenging because of the high cost of high dimensional optimization. Usually, optimization problems are either restricted to few control parameters, or adjoint-based approaches are used to convert the optimization problem into […]


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Quantum Many-Body Physics Calculations with Large Language Models

Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Haining Pan, Nayantara Mudur, Will Taranto, Maria Tikhanovskaya, Subhashini Venugopalan | Summary: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated an unprecedented ability to perform complex tasks in multiple domains, including mathematical and scientific reasoning. We demonstrate that with carefully designed prompts, LLMs can accurately carry out key […]


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Mechanics and wrinkling patterns of pressurized bent tubes

Kavli Affiliate: Ariel Amir | First 5 Authors: Cesar L. Pastrana, Luyi Qiu, John W. Hutchinson, Ariel Amir, Ulrich Gerland | Summary: Take a drinking straw and bend it from its ends. After sufficient bending, the tube buckles forming a kink, where the curvature is localized in a very small area. This instability, known generally […]


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Criticality in the Luria-Delbrück model with an arbitrary mutation rate

Kavli Affiliate: Ariel Amir | First 5 Authors: Deng Pan, Jie Lin, Ariel Amir, , | Summary: The Luria-Delbr"uck model is a classic model of population dynamics with random mutations, that has been used historically to prove that random mutations drive evolution. In typical scenarios, the relevant mutation rate is exceedingly small, and mutants are […]


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Proofreading mechanism for colloidal self-assembly

Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Qian-Ze Zhu, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Ella M. King, Michael P. Brenner, | Summary: Designing components that can robustly self-assemble into structures with biological complexity is a grand challenge for material science. Proofreading and error correction is required to improve assembly yield beyond equilibrium limits, using energy […]


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Tuning Colloidal Reactions

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Brenner | First 5 Authors: Ryan Krueger, Ella King, Michael Brenner, , | Summary: The precise control of complex reactions is critical for biological processes ranging from cell division to metabolism. Synthetic analogues of living materials suffer from our inability to tune chemical reactions with precise outcomes. Here, we leverage differentiable simulators […]


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Programmable patchy particles for materials design

Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Ella M. King, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Qian-Ze Zhu, Samuel S. Schoenholz, Michael P. Brenner | Summary: Direct design of complex functional materials would revolutionize technologies ranging from printable organs to novel clean energy devices. However, even incremental steps towards designing functional materials have proven challenging. If […]


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Using Large Language Models to Accelerate Communication for Users with Severe Motor Impairments

Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Shanqing Cai, Subhashini Venugopalan, Katie Seaver, Xiang Xiao, Katrin Tomanek | Summary: Finding ways to accelerate text input for individuals with profound motor impairments has been a long-standing area of research. Closing the speed gap for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices such as eye-tracking keyboards […]


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Optimal switching strategies for navigation in stochastic settings

Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: F. Mori, L. Mahadevan, , , | Summary: Inspired by the intermittent reorientation strategy seen in the behavior of the dung beetle, we consider the problem of the navigation strategy of an active Brownian particle moving in two dimensions. We assume that the heading of the particle […]


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