Molecular rotations, multiscale order, hyperuniformity, and signatures of metastability during the compression/decompression cycles of amorphous ices

M Formanek, S Torquato, R Car… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We model, via large-scale molecular dynamics simulations, the isothermal compression of
low-density amorphous ice (LDA) to generate high-density amorphous ice (HDA) and the …

Computational design of anisotropic stealthy hyperuniform composites with engineered directional scattering properties

W Shi, D Keeney, D Chen, Y Jiao, S Torquato - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Disordered hyperuniform materials are an emerging class of exotic amorphous states of
matter that endow them with singular physical properties, including large isotropic photonic …

Simulated diffusion spreadability for characterizing the structure and transport properties of two-phase materials

M Skolnick, S Torquato - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Time-dependent diffusion processes between phases of heterogeneous materials are
ubiquitous in a variety of contexts in the physical, chemical, and biological sciences …

Disordered hyperuniform quasi-one-dimensional materials

D Chen, Y Liu, Y Zheng, H Zhuang, M Chen, Y Jiao - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Carbon nanotubes are quasi-one-dimensional systems that possess large electronic
conductance (for the metallic variants), high mechanical strength, selective emission and …

[HTML][HTML] Disordered hyperuniform solid state materials

D Chen, H Zhuang, M Chen, PY Huang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Disordered hyperuniform (DHU) states are recently discovered exotic states of condensed
matter. DHU systems are similar to liquids or glasses in that they are statistically isotropic …

Quantifying phase mixing and separation behaviors across length and time scales

M Skolnick, S Torquato - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Phase mixing and separation phenomena abound in the formation of natural and synthetic
material systems, including alloys, composites, granular media, geological media, complex …

Ultraefficient reconstruction of effectively hyperuniform disordered biphase materials via non-Gaussian random fields

Y Gao, Y Jiao, Y Liu - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Disordered hyperuniform systems are statistically isotropic and possess no Bragg peaks like
liquids and glasses, yet they suppress large-scale density fluctuations in a similar manner as …

Hyperuniformity of expected equilibrium density distributions of Brownian particles via designer external potentials

Y Jiao - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Disordered hyperuniformity (DHU) is a recently discovered novel state of many-body
systems that is characterized by vanishing normalized infinite-wavelength density …

Topological defects, inherent structures, and hyperuniformity

D Chen, Y Zheng, Y Jiao - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
A wide spectrum of disordered many-body systems that are inherent structures (ie, local
minima of potential energy landscape) was recently discovered to possess a novel hidden …

Vibrational properties of disordered stealthy hyperuniform 1D atomic chains

H Zhuang, D Chen, L Liu, D Keeney… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Disorder hyperuniformity is a recently discovered exotic state of many-body systems that
possess a hidden order in between that of a perfect crystal and a completely disordered …