Physics in ordered and disordered colloidal matter composed of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles

PJ Yunker, K Chen, MD Gratale, MA Lohr… - Reports on Progress …, 2014‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This review collects and describes experiments that employ colloidal suspensions to probe
physics in ordered and disordered solids and related complex fluids. The unifying feature of …

Colloquium: Ice rule and emergent frustration in particle ice and beyond

A Ortiz-Ambriz, C Nisoli, C Reichhardt… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019‏ - APS
Geometric frustration and the ice rule are two concepts that are intimately connected and
widespread across condensed matter. The first refers to the inability of a system to satisfy …

Electrochemically reconfigurable architected materials

X **a, A Afshar, H Yang, CM Portela, DM Kochmann… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
Architected materials can actively respond to external stimuli—such as mechanical forces,
hydration and magnetic fields—by changing their geometries and thereby achieve novel …

Design principles for nonequilibrium self-assembly

M Nguyen, S Vaikuntanathan - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
We consider an important class of self-assembly problems, and using the formalism of
stochastic thermodynamics, we derive a set of design principles for growing controlled …

Emergent disorder and mechanical memory in periodic metamaterials

C Sirote-Katz, D Shohat, C Merrigan, Y Lahini… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Ordered mechanical systems typically have one or only a few stable rest configurations, and
hence are not considered useful for encoding memory. Multistable and history-dependent …

Displacive Jahn–Teller Transition in NaNiO2

LAV Nagle-Cocco, AR Genreith-Schriever… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Below its Jahn–Teller transition temperature, T JT, NaNiO2 has a monoclinic layered
structure consisting of alternating layers of edge-sharing NaO6 and Jahn–Teller-distorted …

Pseudo-goldstone modes and dynamical gap generation from order by thermal disorder

S Khatua, MJP Gingras, JG Rau - Physical Review Letters, 2023‏ - APS
Accidental ground state degeneracies—those not a consequence of global symmetries of
the Hamiltonian—are inevitably lifted by fluctuations, often leading to long-range order, a …

Everything is a quantum Ising model

R Verresen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2301.11917, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
This work shows that any $ k $-local Hamiltonian of qubits can be obtained from a 4-
state'Ising'model with $ k $-local diagonal interactions and a single-site transverse field …

Simulations of frustrated Ising Hamiltonians using quantum approximate optimization

PC Lotshaw, H Xu, B Khalid… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Novel magnetic materials are important for future technological advances. Theoretical and
numerical calculations of ground-state properties are essential in understanding these …

Intermediate magnetization state and competing orders in Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7

RA Borzi, FA Gómez Albarracín, HD Rosales… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Among the frustrated magnetic materials, spin-ice stands out as a particularly interesting
system. Residual entropy, freezing and glassiness, Kasteleyn transitions and …