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12 Feb 2024: Search. Lab Overview. The Souslov lab is part of the Theory of Condensed Matter Group within the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. We are interested in modelling the mechanics of soft materials and designing

20 Oct 2023: Materials for Devices. The course runs during Michaelmas term as part of the IA Materials Science course in the Natural Sciences Tripos. This page contains a copy of the lecture notes, the problem sets, and the solutions to the problems. Lecture

15 Dec 2023: science. Our article in Scientific Reports was the most downloaded article across all Nature Publishing Group journals in December 2011, exceeding 100,000 PDF downloads and HTML page views in the ... The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the

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12 Feb 2024: Search. Chiral Active Metamaterials. Date. 31 Aug 2017 10:00. Event. Workshop “Out of Equilibrium Dynamics in Soft and Condensed Matter”. Location. International Institute of Physics (IIP), Natal, Brazil. Associate Professor. I am interested in

12 Feb 2024: We have moved to the University of Cambridge. We are now part of the Theory of Condensed Matter group within the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Brook Salter joins the group. Welcome Brook! Jamie

12 Feb 2024: Search. Active Fluids as Topological Metamaterials. Date. 15 May 2018 00:00. Event. Workshop “Topological Protection in Messy Matter”. Location. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. Associate Professor. I am interested in the

12 Feb 2024: Search. UK Metamaterials Network. 28 Apr 2021. The UK Metamaterials Network will help build the UK metamaterials community. Within the network, the Horizon Scanning and Disruptive Concepts Forum will work to identify emerging concepts and disruptive

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12 Feb 2024: Search. Active solids. 29 Oct 2023. We are interested in how the mechanics of solids can change when active elements such as motors are embedded inside. In a recent project, we considered what happens when an active surface is wrapped around a soft

12 Feb 2024: Search. Topological waves and odd viscosity in chiral active fluids. Date. 27 Apr 2019 00:00. Event. Workshop “Hydrodynamics Across the Scales”. Location. University of Chicago, IL, USA. Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft

12 Feb 2024: Search. Absorption of topological waves. 27 Oct 2020. At the point where two different boundaries meet, topological waves can disappear. This suggests novel applications of topology for absorption and acoustic shielding. Publications:. Associate

12 Feb 2024: Search. Brook Salter. PhD Student. University of Bath. Brook is working on topological fibre optics, including twisted fibre. Before Bath, he studied at the University of Nottingham. Education. Master's in Mathematical Physics, 2022. University of

12 Feb 2024: Search. Jack Binysh joins the group. 2 Mar 2020. Welcome Jack! Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft materials. Published with Wowchemy — the free, open source website builder that empowers creators.

12 Feb 2024: Search. SouslovLab YouTube Channel has been launched! 27 Oct 2020. Here is the link, which includes the Supplementary Movies for our latest preprints:Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft materials. Published with Wowchemy —

12 Feb 2024: Search. New website launch. 14 Jul 2019. Today the group website is launched! Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft materials. Published with Wowchemy — the free, open source website builder that empowers creators.

12 Feb 2024: Search. Odd elasticity in soft active solids. Date. 14 May 2019 00:00. Event. Workshop “Optimal design of soft matter”. Location. Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft

12 Feb 2024: Search. Nathan Roberts joins the group. 28 Sep 2020. Welcome Nathan! Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft materials. Published with Wowchemy — the free, open source website builder that empowers creators.

12 Feb 2024: Search. Topological Fibre Optics. 1 Jan 0001. Topological states in fibre at different wavelengths. We designed and created the first optical fibre which propagates light using a topological state. We explore the limits of topological robustness by

12 Feb 2024: Search. Between materials and robots. Date. 17 May 2021 18:00. Event. Creating and detecting life with tech. Location. Pint of Science UK (YouTube). Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft materials. Published with Wowchemy —

12 Feb 2024: Search. Brook Salter joins the group. 1 May 2023. Welcome Brook! Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft materials. Published with Wowchemy — the free, open source website builder that empowers creators.

12 Feb 2024: Search. Jamie Mclauchlan joins the group. 1 Oct 2021. Welcome Jamie! Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft materials. Published with Wowchemy — the free, open source website builder that empowers creators.

12 Feb 2024: Search. Hydrodynamic correlation functions of chiral active fluids. D. Banerjee, Anton Souslov, V. Vitelli. April 2022. Abstract. The success of spectroscopy to characterize equilibrium fluids, for example the heat-capacity ratio, suggests a

12 Feb 2024: Search. Anton Souslov. Associate Professor. I am an Associate Professor (in the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge) working on the theory of soft materials, including mechanical metamaterials, active matter,

12 Feb 2024: Search. Single-shot measurement of photonic topological invariant. Nathan Roberts, Guido Baardink, Anton Souslov, Peter J. Mosley. May 2023. Abstract. Topological design enables physicists to engineer robustness into a system. When connected to a

12 Feb 2024: Search. Elasticity and response in nearly isostatic periodic lattices. Anton Souslov, A.J. Liu, T.C. Lubensky. January 2009. Abstract. The square and kagome lattices with nearest-neighbor springs of spring constant k are isostatic with a number of

12 Feb 2024: Search. Emergent tilt order in Dirac polymer liquids. Anton Souslov, B. Loewe, P.M. Goldbart. January 2015. Abstract. We study a liquid of zigzagging two-dimensional directed polymers with bending rigidity, i.e., polymers whose conformations follow

12 Feb 2024: Search. Jack Binysh. Postdoctoral Researcher. University of Bath. Jack was a postdoctoral researcher at Bath during 2020-2023 and has since been a Marie Currie fellow at the University of Amsterdam. Website: jackbinysh.github.io. Education. PhD in

12 Feb 2024: Search. We have moved to the University of Cambridge. 1 Oct 2023. We are now part of the Theory of Condensed Matter group within the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Associate Professor. I am interested in

12 Feb 2024: Search. Geometry for mechanics. Anton Souslov, V. Vitelli. July 2019. Abstract. The mechanics of many materials can be modelled by a network of balls connected by springs. A bottom-up approach based on differential geometry now captures changes in

12 Feb 2024: Search. Organization of strongly interacting directed polymer liquids in the presence of stringent constraints. Anton Souslov, D.Z. Rocklin, P.M. Goldbart. January 2013. Abstract. The impact of impenetrable obstacles on the energetics and

12 Feb 2024: Search. Topological Waves in Fluids with Odd Viscosity. Anton Souslov, K. Dasbiswas, M. Fruchart, S. Vaikuntanathan, V. Vitelli. March 2019. Abstract. Fluids in which both time reversal and parity are broken can display a dissipationless viscosity

12 Feb 2024: Search. Topological Protection Can Arise from Thermal Fluctuations and Interactions. R.P. Pedro, J. Paulose, Anton Souslov, M. Dresselhaus, V. Vitelli. January 2019. Abstract. Topological quantum and classical materials can exhibit robust properties

12 Feb 2024: Search. Cluster formation by acoustic forces and active fluctuations in levitated granular matter. M.X. Lim, Anton Souslov, V. Vitelli, H.M. Jaeger. March 2019. Abstract. Mechanically agitated granular matter often serves as a prototype for

12 Feb 2024: Search. Nathan Roberts. PhD Student. University of Bath. Nathan started as a PhD student at Bath in September 2020. He finished his Master’s degree at Bath with a research placement in Japan at NTT. Education. Master's in Physics, 2020. University

12 Feb 2024: Search. Odd viscosity in chiral active fluids. D. Banerjee, Anton Souslov, A.G. Abanov, V. Vitelli. January 2017. Abstract. We study the hydrodynamics of fluids composed of self-spinning objects such as chiral grains or colloidal particles subject

12 Feb 2024: Search. Guido Baardink. PhD Student. University of Bath. Guido completed his PhD thesis at Bath in 2023, titled Design Principles for Active Solids. Before that, Guido obtained Master’s degrees in Theoretical Physics from Leiden University,

12 Feb 2024: Search. Anisotropic odd viscosity via a time-modulated drive. Anton Souslov, Andrey Gromov, V. Vitelli. May 2020. Abstract. At equilibrium, the structure and response of ordered phases are typically determined by the spontaneous breaking of spatial

12 Feb 2024: Search. Jamie Mclauchlan. PhD Student. University of Bath. Jamie started as a PhD student at Bath in September 2021 through the CDT in Aerosol Science. He moved to Bristol and Bath from Edinburgh, where he finished his Master’s degree in

12 Feb 2024: Search. Sonic Landau Levels and Synthetic Gauge Fields in Mechanical Metamaterials. H. Abbaszadeh, Anton Souslov, J. Paulose, H. Schomerus, V. Vitelli. January 2017. Abstract. Mechanical strain can lead to a synthetic gauge field that controls the

12 Feb 2024: Search. Topological sound in active-liquid metamaterials. Anton Souslov, B.C. Van Zuiden, D. Bartolo, V. Vitelli. January 2017. Abstract. Liquids composed of self-propelled particles have been experimentally realized using molecular, colloidal or

12 Feb 2024: Search. Mechanical instability at finite temperature. X. Mao, Anton Souslov, C.I. Mendoza, T.C. Lubensky. January 2015. Abstract. Many physical systems including lattices near structural phase transitions, glasses, jammed solids and biopolymer gels

12 Feb 2024: Search. Anisotropic polymer nanoparticles with controlled dimensions from the morphological transformation of isotropic seeds. Z. Hua, J.R. Jones, M. Thomas, M.C. Arno, Anton Souslov, T.R. Wilks, R. K. O'Reilly. November 2019. Abstract.

12 Feb 2024: Search. Optimal power and efficiency of odd engines. E. Fodor, Anton Souslov. December 2021. Abstract. Odd materials feature antisymmetric response to perturbations. This anomalous property can stem from the nonequilibrium activity of their

12 Feb 2024: Search. Soft topological modes protected by symmetry in rigid mechanical metamaterials. H. Kedia, Anton Souslov, D.Z. Rocklin. February 2021. Abstract. Topological mechanics can realize soft modes in mechanical metamaterials in which the number of

12 Feb 2024: Search. Topological active matter. S. Shankar, Anton Souslov, M.J. Bowick, M.C. Marchetti, V. Vitelli. May 2022. Abstract. In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces or motion at the microscale,

12 Feb 2024: Search. Odd Cosserat elasticity in active materials. Piotr Surowka, Anton Souslov, Frank Julicher, Debarghya Banerjee. October 2022. Abstract. Stress-strain constitutive relations in solids with an internal angular degree of freedom can be modelled

12 Feb 2024: Search. Topological supermodes in photonic crystal fibre. Nathan Roberts, Guido Baardink, Josh Nunn, Peter J. Mosley, Anton Souslov. December 2022. Abstract. Topological states enable robust transport within disorder-rich media through integer

12 Feb 2024: Search. Beads on a string: Structure of bound aggregates of globular particles and long polymer chains. Anton Souslov, J.E. Curtis, P.M. Goldbart. January 2015. Abstract. Macroscopic properties of suspensions, such as those composed of globular

12 Feb 2024: Search. Scalable 3D printing for topological mechanical metamaterials. Achilles Bergne, Guido Baardink, Evripides G Loukaides, Anton Souslov. December 2022. Abstract. Mechanical metamaterials are structures designed to exhibit an exotic response,