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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 —

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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: New tools allowing controlled nanoscale assembly are sorely needed, as well as the physical understanding of how they work.

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. 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. 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. 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: 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. 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

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

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Nonlinear shallow-water waves with vertical odd viscosity. A. Doak, Guido Baardink, P.A. Milewski, Anton Souslov. April 2022. Abstract. The breaking of detailed balance in fluids through Coriolis forces or odd-viscous stresses has profound

12 Feb 2024: Search. Topological edge states in equidistant arrays of lithium niobate nano-waveguides. Andrey V. Gorbach, Jesper Beer, Anton Souslov. April 2023. Abstract. We report that equidistant 1D arrays of thin-film lithium niobate nano-waveguides

12 Feb 2024: Search. Active elastocapillarity in soft solids with negative surface tension. Jack Binysh, Thomas R. Wilks, Anton Souslov. March 2022. Abstract. Active solids consume energy to allow for actuation, shape change, and wave propagation not possible in

12 Feb 2024: Search. Oscillatory chiral flows in confined active fluids with obstacles. B. Zhang, Benjamin Hilton, Christopher Short, Anton Souslov, A. Snezhko. November 2020. Abstract. An active colloidal fluid comprised of self-propelled spinning particles

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: Here we introduce a new phenomenon that occurs with vaporizable soft solids - the elastic Leidenfrost effect. ... Our findings suggest a new strategy for injecting mechanical energy into a widely used class of soft materials, with potential relevance to

12 Feb 2024: Search. Odd elasticity. Colin Scheibner, Anton Souslov, D. Banerjee, Piotr Surowka, William T. M. Irvine, V. Vitelli. March 2020. Abstract. A passive solid cannot do work on its surroundings through any quasistatic cycle of deformations. This

12 Feb 2024: Search. Buckled colloidal monolayers connect geometric frustration in soft and hard matter. Y. Shokef, Y. Han, Anton Souslov, A.G. Yodh, T.C. Lubensky. January 2013. Abstract. Buckled monolayers of diameter-tunable microgel spheres constitute a

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. 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. Order by disorder in the antiferromagnetic Ising model on an elastic triangular lattice. Y. Shokef, Anton Souslov, T.C. Lubensky. January 2011. Abstract. Geometrically frustrated materials have a ground-state degeneracy that may be lifted by

12 Feb 2024: Search. Impact of single-particle compressibility on the fluid-solid phase transition for ionic microgel suspensions. M. Pelaez-Fernandez, Anton Souslov, L.A. Lyon, P.M. Goldbart, A. Fernández-Nieves. January 2015. Abstract. We study ionic microgel

12 Feb 2024: Search. Odd living matter defies golden rule of mechanics. Jack Binysh, Anton Souslov. July 2022. Abstract. Self-assembling ‘crystals’ of starfish embryos exhibit a curious behaviour termed odd elasticity, which seemingly violates Newton’s

12 Feb 2024: Search. Active solids sync up. Jack Binysh, Anton Souslov. August 2022. Abstract. An active solid composed of confined robots is reported. Through elastic interactions, the robots sync up to create novel states of coherent motion. Publication.

23 May 2024: About. Research. People. Events. Join us. Impact. Graduate teaching. Research students in TCM are able to take advantage of a wide range of courses offered by the University. Final year undergraduate (Part III) courses in both Physics and

12 Feb 2024: Search. Bacterial filamentation drives colony chirality. A. Aranda-Diaz, C. Rodrigues, A. Grote, J. Sun, C. Schreck, O. Hallatschek, Anton Souslov, W. Mobius, K.C. Huang. November 2021. Abstract. Chirality is ubiquitous in nature, with consequences

8 May 2024: Publications. 98. P. Ghosh, A.M. Alvertis, R. Chowdhury, P. Murto, A.J. Gillett, S. Dong, A.J. Sneyd, H.-H. Cho, E.W. Evans, B. Monserrat, F. Li, C. Schnedermann, H. Bronstein, R.H. Friend, and A. Rao. Decoupling excitons from high-frequency