Julia M. Yeomans

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that confinement can serve as a mechanical guidance to achieve distinct modes of collective invasion when combined with growth dynamics and the intrinsic activity of biological materials, and further characterise the mechanical mechanisms underlying the crossovers between different modes of invasion and quantify their impact on the overall invasion speed.

TL;DR: In this paper, an interface in the three-dimensional Blume-Capel model is studied using low-temperature series and mean-field theory, and it is shown that the interface wets through an infinite sequence of layering transitions which become quasicontinuous as the bulk phase boundary is approached.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered the neutral, one-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model at zero temperature in the limit of a large electron ion attractive potential, and they showed that the ground state exhibits the behaviour of a complete devil's staircase.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors numerically investigate how spatial variations of extensile or contractile active stress affect bulk active nematic systems in two and three dimensions, and they find that active torques robustly align + 1/2 defects parallel to activity gradients, with defect heads pointing towards contractile regions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a solvable Lagrangian model for non-axisymmetric droplet bouncing is proposed, where asymmetries in the velocity, initial droplet shape and contact line drag acting on the droplet and show that asymmetry can often lead to reduced contact time and lift-off in an elongated shape.