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A Population Dynamics Model for Clonal Diversity in a Germinal Center

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

A Stevedore's protein knot

scientific article

A simple model for how the risk of pandemics from different virus families depends on viral and human traits

scientific article published on 06 November 2021

Active Particles with Soft and Curved Walls: Equation of State, Ratchets, and Instabilities

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Analytical results on Casimir forces for conductors with edges and tips

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Anisotropic Scaling in Depinning of a Flux Line

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Anomalous diffusion with absorbing boundary.

scientific article published on 20 December 2007

Anomalous dynamics of forced translocation

article

Anomalous dynamics of translocation

article

Apex Exponents for Polymer-Probe Interactions

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Attractive Casimir Forces in a Closed Geometry

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Attractive and repulsive polymer-mediated forces between scale-free surfaces

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Avalanches, hydrodynamics, and discharge events in models of sandpiles

article

Burgers equation with correlated noise: Renormalization-group analysis and applications to directed polymers and interface growth.

scientific article published in March 1989

Capturing knots in polymers

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Casimir Forces between Arbitrary Compact Objects

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Casimir Interaction between a Plate and a Cylinder

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Casimir force at a knife’s edge

article

Casimir forces between compact objects: The scalar case

scholarly article

Casimir forces between cylinders and plates

article

Casimir forces between cylinders at different temperatures

scholarly article

Casimir forces beyond the proximity approximation

Casimir forces in a piston geometry at zero and finite temperatures

scholarly article

Casimir forces, surface fluctuations, and thinning of superfluid film.

scientific article published on 4 October 2004

Collapse of Stiff Polyelectrolytes due to Counterion Fluctuations

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Commensurate-Incommensurate Phase Diagrams for Overlayers from a Helical Potts Model

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Commensurate-Incommensurate Transitions with Quenched Random Impurities

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Comment on "Criticality of the Anisotropic Quantum Heisenberg Model on a Self-Dual Hierarchical Lattice"

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Competing Criticality of Short- and Infinite-Range Interactions on the Cayley Tree

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Configurations of polymers attached to probes

Constraints on stable equilibria with fluctuation-induced (Casimir) forces.

scientific article published on 12 August 2010

Correlation and Cross-Linking Effects in Imprinting Sites for Divalent Adsorption in Gels†

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Correlation functions near modulated and rough surfaces

scientific article published on 03 April 2002

Critical dynamics of contact line depinning

article

Crossover to equivalent-neighbor multicritical behavior in arbitrary dimensions

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 28 no. 1, July 1983

Crumpled and collapsed conformation in graphite oxide membranes

scientific article published in Nature

Defects in nematic membranes can buckle into pseudospheres

article

Depinning by Quenched Randomness

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Diffraction Patterns from Thin Hexatic Films

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Diffusion in correlated random potentials, with applications to DNA.

scientific article published in June 2004

Dilution and resonance-enhanced repulsion in nonequilibrium fluctuation forces

Dimensional reduction with correlated random fields. A superspace renormalization-group calculation

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 27 no. 9, May 1983

Directed paths on percolation clusters

Directed waves in random media

scientific article published on 01 June 1992

Directed waves in random media

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Disorder-induced unbinding of a flux line from an extended defect

scientific article published on 01 May 1994

Dissipative transport in open systems: An investigation of self-organized criticality.

scientific article

Domain walls subject to quenched impurities (invited)

article by Mehran Kardar published 15 April 1987 in Journal of Applied Physics

Driven Depinning in Anisotropic Media

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Dynamic relaxation of drifting polymers: A phenomenological approach

scientific article published on 01 August 1993

Dynamic roughening of directed lines

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Dynamic scaling of growing interfaces.

scientific article published in March 1986

Dynamic scaling phenomena in growth processes

Dynamics of tumor growth and combination of anti-angiogenic and cytotoxic therapies.

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Effective membrane model of the immunological synapse.

scientific article published on 10 November 2003

Effects of surface enhancement on fluctuation-induced interactions

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Elastic antiferromagnets on a triangular lattice

Elasticity and melting of vortex crystals in anisotropic superconductors: Beyond the continuum regime

scholarly article by M.-Carmen Miguel & Mehran Kardar published 1 September 2000 in Physical Review B

Electromagnetic Casimir forces of parabolic cylinder and knife-edge geometries

scholarly article

Energy Barriers to Motion of Flux Lines in Random Media

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Entropic force of polymers on a cone tip

Erratum: Diffusion in correlated random potentials, with applications to DNA [Phys. Rev. E69, 061903 (2004)]

scholarly article published in Physical Review E

Evolution of Surface Patterns on Swelling Gels

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Exact criticality condition for randomly layered Ising models with competing interactions on a square lattice

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 26 no. 1, July 1982

Exact integer algorithm for the two-dimensional +/-J Ising spin glass.

scientific article published in November 1993

Exact solution of the Ising model on a helix

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 27 no. 11, June 1983

Exact-enumeration approach to tunneling in disordered systems

scientific article published on 01 September 1990

First-passage distributions in a collective model of anomalous diffusion with tunable exponent

article

First-passage times and distances along critical curves

Fluctuation-induced forces between manifolds immersed in correlated fluids

scientific article published on 01 November 1992

Fluctuation-induced interactions between rods on membranes and interfaces

article

Force-extension relations for polymers with sliding links

scientific article published on 15 August 2002

Formation and Stability of Synaptic Receptor Domains

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Fractional Laplacian in bounded domains

scientific article published on 21 August 2007

Free energies for the discrete chain in a periodic potential and the dual Coulomb gas

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 30 no. 11, December 1984

Growth-induced roughening of crystalline facets

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Harmonics of orientational order in liquid crystals

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Heat radiation from long cylindrical objects

scientific article published on 09 April 2012

How the thymus designs antigen-specific and self-tolerant T cell receptor sequences

scholarly article

Hwa, Kardar, and Paczuski reply

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Identification of drug resistance mutations in HIV from constraints on natural evolution

scientific article

Information flow through a chaotic channel: Prediction and postdiction at finite resolution

scientific article published on 13 August 2004

Information optimization in coupled audio-visual cortical maps

scientific article

Instabilities of charged polyampholytes

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Interference of Directed Paths in Disordered Systems

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Interplay between phase ordering and roughening on growing films

Intricate knots in proteins: Function and evolution

scientific article

Josephson-junction ladders and quantum fluctuations

scientific article published on 01 March 1986

Kantor, Kardar, and Nelson Reply

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Kardar, Parisi, and Zhang Respond

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Knots in Globule and Coil Phases of a Model Polyethylene

article

Knots in charged polymers

scientific article published on 19 September 2002

Kosterlitz-Thouless transition with symmetry-breaking fields and quenched random interactions

scientific article published on 01 April 1991

Krypton on graphite and the striped helical Potts model

article

Landau Theory of the Crumpling Transition

scientific article

Long range interactions in nanoscale science

article

Low-temperature phases of Xe on graphite

scientific article published on 01 November 1986

Magnetic-field effects on strongly localized electrons

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Manipulating the selection forces during affinity maturation to generate cross-reactive HIV antibodies

scientific article published on 5 February 2015

Material dependence of Casimir forces: Gradient expansion beyond proximity

Matrix generalizations of some dynamic field theories

Mean-field computational approach to HIV dynamics on a fitness landscape

article

Mechanical Response of Vacuum

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Melting of persistent double-stranded polymers

scientific article

Modified Critical Correlations Close to Modulated and Rough Surfaces

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

N-color spin models in the large-Nlimit

scientific article published on 01 June 1985

New phases, commensurate-incommensurate and disordering transitions in a solvable model of adsorbed layers

article

Non-equilibrium Casimir forces: Spheres and sphere-plate

Nonequilibrium Electromagnetic Fluctuations: Heat Transfer and Interactions

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Nonlinear stochastic equations with calculable steady states.

scientific article published on 10 October 2003

Nonmonotonic effects of parallel sidewalls on Casimir forces between cylinders

article

Nonuniversality and analytical continuation in moments of directed polymers on hierarchical lattices

Normal and lateral Casimir forces between deformed plates

Observation of striped phases in adsorbed helium monolayers

scientific article published on 01 July 1986

One-dimensional gas of hard needles

article

Only signaling modules that discriminate sharply between stimulatory and nonstimulatory inputs require basal signaling for fast cellular responses

scientific article published on September 2010

Optimal immunization cocktails can promote induction of broadly neutralizing Abs against highly mutable pathogens

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Optimal paths on the road network as directed polymers

scientific article published in November 2017

Orientation dependence of Casimir forces

Pair dispersion in dilute suspension of active swimmers

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Path-integral approach to the dynamic Casimir effect with fluctuating boundaries

Patterns and Symmetries in the Visual Cortex and in Natural Images

Phase Ordering and Roughening on Growing Films

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Phase Transitions in New Solvable Hamiltonians by a Hamiltonian Minimization

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Phase boundaries of the isotropic helical Potts model on a square lattice

article

Pinning and unbinding of ideal polymers from a wedge corner

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Polymer-mediated entropic forces between scale-free objects

scientific article published on 03 December 2012

Positive feedback regulation results in spatial clustering and fast spreading of active signaling molecules on a cell membrane

scientific article

Predicting transcription factor specificity with all-atom models

scientific article published on October 2008

Probability distributions for polymer translocation

scientific article published on 21 August 2008

Probability distributions of line lattices in random media from the 1D Bose gas

article published in 2001

Protein knot server: detection of knots in protein structures

scientific article

Pseudodimensional variation and tricriticality of Potts models by hierarchical breaking of translational invariance

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 30 no. 3, August 1984

Pulling knotted polymers

Purely stochastic binary decisions in cell signaling models without underlying deterministic bistabilities

scholarly article

Quantitative model for efficient temporal targeting of tumor cells and neovasculature

scientific article published on 8 March 2011

Quantum Cherenkov radiation and noncontact friction

Quantum Interference Phenomena in Strong Localization

scientific article published in 1992

Quantum interference effects for strongly localized electrons

scientific article published on 01 October 1992

Quorum sensing allows T cells to discriminate between self and nonself

scientific article published on July 2013

Ramifications of disorder on active particles in one dimension

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Random-field critical behavior and the Ginzburg criterion

scientific article published on 01 March 1985

Randomly charged polymers: An exact enumeration study

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Reentrant melting of krypton adsorbed on graphite and the helical Potts-lattice-gas model

article

Renormalization-group analysis of the crumpling transition in larged

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

Roughening by impurities at finite temperatures

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Roughening of anisotropically reconstructed surfaces and the Hubbard model

scientific article published on 01 December 1992

Roughness and ordering of growing films

Scaling laws describe memories of host-pathogen riposte in the HIV population

scientific article

Scaling of Directed Polymers in Random Media

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Scaling of energy barriers for flux lines and other random systems

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Scattering approach to the dynamical Casimir effect

scholarly article

Scattering theory approach to electrodynamic Casimir forces

article

Self-assembly and plasticity of synaptic domains through a reaction-diffusion mechanism

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Self-avoiding crumpled manifolds: Perturbative analysis and renormalizability

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Short-range and infinite-range bond percolation

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 29 no. 9, May 1984

Small distance expansion for radiative heat transfer between curved objects

Spin models inferred from patient-derived viral sequence data faithfully describe HIV fitness landscapes

scientific article

Spin-orbit scattering and magnetoconductance of strongly localized electrons

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Spontaneous emission by rotating objects: a scattering approach.

scientific article published on 7 June 2012

Statistical Mechanics of Tethered Surfaces

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Statistical Physics of Fields

Physics textbook by Mehran Kardar

Statistical Physics of Particles

Physics textbook by Mehran Kardar

Statistical Physics of T-Cell Development and Pathogen Specificity

article

Statistical mechanics of polyampholytes

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Statistical mechanics of self-avoiding tethered manifolds

scientific article published on 01 July 1988

Structure and dynamics of vibrated granular chains: Comparison to equilibrium polymers

article

Structure space of model proteins: A principal component analysis

Surface ordering and finite-size effects in liquid-crystal films

scientific article published in October 1991

Symmetry considerations and development of pinwheels in visual maps

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2003)

Symmetry-breaking motility.

scientific article published on 19 September 2005

THE SURFACE STATISTICS OF A GROWING AGGREGATE

Tethered surfaces: Statics and dynamics

article

The Effects of Somatic Hypermutation on Neutralization and Binding in the PGT121 Family of Broadly Neutralizing HIV Antibodies

scientific article

The Influence of T Cell Development on Pathogen Specificity and Autoreactivity

article

The elusiveness of polymer knots

article published in 2007

The low spike density of HIV may have evolved because of the effects of T helper cell depletion on affinity maturation

article

The statistics of lines in natural images and implications for visual detection

The “friction” of vacuum, and other fluctuation-induced forces

Thermodynamic Fingerprints of Disorder in Flux Line Lattices and Other Glassy Mesoscopic Systems

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Thinning of superfluid films below the critical point

scientific article published on 19 September 2007

Thymic Selection of T-Cell Receptors as an Extreme Value Problem

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Tight and loose shapes in flat entangled dense polymers

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Tightness of slip-linked polymer chains

scientific article published on 12 June 2002

Trace formulas for nonequilibrium Casimir interactions, heat radiation, and heat transfer for arbitrary objects

article

Transient Casimir Forces from Quenches in Thermal and Active Matter

scientific article published on 5 January 2017

Uniaxially compressed magnets

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 30 no. 8, October 1984

Universality in the jamming limit for elongated hard particles in one dimension

Untangling influences of hydrophobicity on protein sequences and structures

scientific article published in March 2006

Unusual percolation in simple small-world networks.

scientific article published on 23 June 2009

Unusual universality of branching interfaces in random media

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Wetting of fractally rough surfaces

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Wetting phenomena on rough substrates

scientific article published on 01 October 1990

εExpansions for Crumpled Manifolds

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

εexpansions for crumpled manifolds

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters