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12 Feb 2024: Our work points to a new class of classical topological phenomena in which the topological signature manifests itself in a structural property observed at finite temperature rather than a transport measurement.

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. 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: These results open up new possibilities for non-invasively manipulating macroscopic particles, tuning their interactions and directing their assembly.

29 May 2024: About. Research. People. Events. Join us. Impact. On-line Theses. This catalogue contains those TCM theses for which we are aware of the full text being publically available on-line. It is a small part of the total thesis output of the Group. Those

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

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.

6 Feb 2024: About. Research. People. Events. Join us. Impact. Balazs Pota. Balazs Pota. Member of Pembroke College. PhD student in Prof Payne's group. Office: 543 Mott Bld. TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory. 19 JJ Thomson Avenue,. Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK.

29 Oct 2023: We aim to design metamaterials with new properties, which push the limits of what is physically possible. ... One useful design principle for new metamaterials is topology, which deals with properties that remain invariant under continuous change.

4 Dec 2023: About. Research. People. Events. Join us. Impact. F Nur Ünal. Dr F Nur Ünal. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. Senior Postdoctoral Researcher of Trinity College. Postdoc in Prof Cooper's group. Office: 544 Mott Bld. Email: fnu20 @ cam.ac.uk. TCM

5 Jan 2024: If we can control the arrangement of the nuclei and interactions, we can tune and find new quantum phenomena. ... A key theme of my current research lies in exploiting the moiré modulation and performing calculations to predict new quantum phenomena in

4 Mar 2024: The recent synthesis of monolayer fullerene networks provides new opportunities for photovoltaics and photocatalysis because of their versatile crystal structures for further tailoring of electronic, optical, and chemical function.

6 Nov 2023: About. Research. People. Events. Join us. Impact. Postgraduate Admissions 2024. The Theory of Condensed Matter group usually accepts a little over half a dozen PhD students each year. Research areas include Electronic Structure Computation, Soft

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17 Mar 2024: Invited, Conference: New Trends in Topological Insulators 2019, Hiroshima, Japan (2019). ... APS March Meeting, Boston, MA, US (2019). DFG Research Unit 2414 Workshop, New Progress in Topological Phases, Paris, France (2019).

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

11 Dec 2023: Join us. Current Openings. Postdoctoral position (deadline January 20): Apply here. PhD students. We are always keen on hearing from students interested in joining our group. There are multiple funding routes available at the University of Cambridge,

12 Mar 2024: About. Research. People. Events. Join us. Impact. Bo Peng. Mr Bo Peng. Fellow of Magdelene College. Office: 537 Mott Bld. Email: bp432@cam.ac.uk. TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory. 19 JJ Thomson Avenue,. Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK. Research. Quantum

1 Mar 2024: About. Research. People. Events. Join us. Impact. Anthony Davolio. Anthony Davolio. Member of Churchill College. PhD student in Prof Payne's group. Office: 543 Mott Bld. Email: ajd247 @ cam.ac.uk. TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory. 19 JJ Thomson

7 Feb 2024: Our study unveils a new regime of topological phases where multi-gap topology and non-Abelian charges of band nodes play a crucial role in understanding semimetals with inter-connected multiple ... These phases are exclusively mapped out in this analysis

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. 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. Complete absorption of topologically protected waves. Guido Baardink, Gino Cassella, Luke Neville, P.A. Milewski, Anton Souslov. October 2020. Abstract. Chiral edge states can transmit energy along imperfect interfaces in a topologically

12 Feb 2024: Publication. New Journal of Physics. Associate Professor. I am interested in the theory of soft materials.

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. 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. Phonons and elasticity in critically coordinated lattices. T.C. Lubensky, C.L. Kane, X. Mao, Anton Souslov, K. Sun. January 2015. Abstract. Much of our understanding of vibrational excitations and elasticity is based upon analysis of frames

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. 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. 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. Surface phonons, elastic response, and conformal invariance in twisted kagome lattices. K. Sun, Anton Souslov, X. Mao, T.C. Lubensky. January 2012. Abstract. Model lattices consisting of balls connected by central-force springs provide much

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. 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. 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. 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: New Journal of Physics. Y.-W. Chang, M.S. Dimitriyev, Anton Souslov, S.V.

12 Feb 2024: Search. Mechanical properties of acoustically levitated granular rafts. M.X. Lim, B. VanSaders, Anton Souslov, H.M. Jaeger. April 2022. Abstract. We investigate a model system for the rotational dynamics of inertial many-particle clustering, in

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,

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. Localizing softness and stress along loops in 3D topological metamaterials. Guido Baardink, Anton Souslov, J. Paulose, V. Vitelli. January 2018. Abstract. Topological states can be used to control the mechanical properties of a material

12 Feb 2024: Search. Extreme thermodynamics with polymer gel tori: Harnessing thermodynamic instabilities to induce large-scale deformations. Y.-W. Chang, M.S. Dimitriyev, Anton Souslov, S.V. Nikolov, S.M. Marquez, A. Alexeev, P.M. Goldbart, A.

12 Feb 2024: Search. Modeling Leidenfrost Levitation of Soft Elastic Solids. Jack Binysh, Indrajit Chakraborty, Mykyta V. Chubynsky, Vicente Luis Diaz Melian, Scott R. Waitukaitis, James E. Sprittles, Anton Souslov. October 2023. Abstract. The elastic

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

10 May 2024: Fabian Grusdt, Eugene Demler - New theoretical approaches to Bose polarons6th April): Florian Marquardt et.