Liu Research Group

Recent Publications

N. Xu, T. K. Haxton, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Equivalence of glass transition and colloidal glass transition in the hard-sphere limit, arXiv:0910.0666.
A. Souslov, A. J. Liu, and T. C. Lubensky, Elasticity and response in nearly isostatic periodic lattices, arXiv:0906.2750.
Z. Zeravcic, N. Xu, A. J. Liu, S. R. Nagel, and W. Van Saarloos, Excitations of ellipsoid packings near jamming, EPL 87 26001.
Z. Zhang, N. Xu, D. T. N. Chen, P. Yunker, A. M. Alsayed, K. B. Aptowicz, P. Habdas, A. J. Liu, S. R. Nagel, and A. G. Yodh, Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition, Nature 459 230 (May 2009).
L. E. Silbert, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Normal modes in model jammed systems in three dimensions, Phys. Rev. E 79 021308 (Feb. 2009).
N. Xu, V. Vitelli, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Energy transport in jammed sphere packings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 038001 (Jan. 2009).
K.-C. Lee and A. J. Liu, New proposed mechanism of actin-polymerization-driven motility, Biophys. J. 95 4529 (Nov. 2008).
T. K. Haxton and A. J. Liu, Activated dynamics and effective temperature in a steady state sheared glass, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 195701 (Nov. 2007).
R. D. Kamien and A. J. Liu, Why is random close packing reproducible?, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 155501 (Oct. 2007).
See also a commentary on this paper by D. Frenkel at the Condensed Matter Journal Club.
A. Gopinathan, K. C. Lee, J. M. Schwartz, and A. J. Liu, Branching, capping, and severing in dynamic actin structures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 058103 (Aug. 2007).
N. Xu, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Excess vibrational modes and the Boson peak in model glasses, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 175502 (Apr. 2007).
See also a commentary on this paper by W. van Saarloos at the Condensed Matter Journal Club.
A. B. Harris and A. J. Liu, Cluster probability in bootstrap percolation, arXiv:cond-mat/0609713.
L. E. Silbert, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Structural signatures of the unjamming transition at zero temperature, Phys. Rev. E 73 041304 (Apr. 2006).
J. M. Schwartz, A. J. Liu, and L. Q. Chayes, The onset of jamming as the sudden emergence of an infinite k-core cluster, Europhys. Lett. 73 560 (Feb. 2006).
L. E. Silbert, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Vibrations and diverging length scales near the unjamming transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 098301 (Aug. 2005).
I. Borukhov, R. F. Bruinsma, W. M. Gelbart, and A. J. Liu, Structural polymorphism of the cytoskeleton: A model of linker-assisted filament aggregation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102 3673 (Mar. 2005).
C. S. O'Hern, L. E. Silbert, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Reply to "Comment on 'Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder' ", Phys. Rev. E 70 043302 (Oct. 2004).
C. S. O'Hern, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Effective temperatures in driven systems: Static versus time-dependent relations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 165702 (Oct. 2004).
K. C. Lee, I. Borukhov, W. M. Gelbart, A. J. Liu, and M. J. Stevens, Effect of mono- and multivalent salts on angle-dependent attractions between charged rods, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 128101 (Sept. 2004).
R. P. Ojha, P.-A. Lemieux, P. K. Dixon, A. J. Liu and D. J. Durian, Statistical mechanics ofa gas-fluidized particle, Nature 427 521 (Feb. 2004).
C. S. O'Hern, L. E. Silbert, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder, Phys. Rev. E 68 011306 (Jul. 2003).
I. K. Ono, S. Tewari, S. A. Langer, and A. J. Liu, Velocity fluctuations in a steadily sheared model foam, Phys. Rev. E 67 061503 (Jun. 2003).
I. K. Ono, C. S. O'Hern, D. J. Durian, S. A. Langer, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Effective temperatures of a driven system near jamming, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 095703 (Aug. 2002).
I. Borukhov, K.-C. Lee, R. F. Bruinsma, W. M. Gelbart, A. J. Liu, and M. J. Stevens, Association of two semiflexible polyelectrolytes by interchain linkers: Theory and simulations, J. Chem. Phys. 117 462 (July 2002).
C. S. O'Hern, S. A. Langer, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Random packings of frictionless particles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 075507 (Feb. 2002).
C. Barentin and A. J. Liu, Shear thickening in dilute solutions of wormlike micelles, Europhys. Lett. 55 432 (Aug. 2001).
I. Borukhov, R. F. Bruinsma, W. M. Gelbart, and A. J. Liu, Elastically driven linker aggregation between two semiflexible polyelectrolytes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 2182 (Mar. 2001).
B.-Y. Ha and A. J. Liu, Effect of nonzero chain diameter on "DNA" condensation, Phys. Rev. E 63 021503 (Jan. 2001).
C. S. O'Hern, S. A. Langer, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, Force distributions near jamming and glass transitions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 111 (Jan. 2001).
S. A. Langer and A. J. Liu, Sheared foam as a supercooled liquid?, Europhys. Lett. 49 68 (Jan. 2000).
S. Tewari, D. Schiemann, D. J. Durian, C. M Knobler, S. A. Langer, and A. J. Liu, Statistics of shear-induced rearrangements in a two-dimensional model foam, Phys. Rev. E 60 4385 (Oct. 1999).