Research Highlights
Research Bar
Spatial structure in intercellular interactions Spatial structure in intercellular interactions
Motor Regulation Motor Regulation
Deadly Competition Deadly Competition
Dynamics of Static Friction Dynamics of Static Friction
Microtubule Mechanics Microtubule Mechanics
Single Photon Atomic Cooling Single Photon Atomic Cooling
Atomic Theory of Dynamic Fracture Atomic Theory of Dynamic Fracture
Multiscale Bacterial Analysis Multiscale Bacterial Analysis
Swarming Dynamics Swarming Dynamics

Recent Publications

Propagating and evanescent internal waves in a deep ocean model
M. S. Paoletti, Harry L. Swinney, Submitted - Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2012)
Correlation between Voronoi volumes in disc packings
Song-Chuan Zhao, Stacy Sidle, Harry L. Swinney and Matthias Schröter, EPL 97 34004 (2012) pdf
Harmonic generation by reflecting internal waves
Bruce Rodenborn, D. Kiefer, H.P. Zhang, and Harry L. Swinney, Physics of Fluids 23 026601 (2011) pdf
Millikelvin cooling of an optically trapped microsphere in vacuum
Tongcang Li, Simon Kheifets and Mark G. Raizen, Nature Physics 7 527-530 (2011) pdf
Shearing of frictional sphere packings
J-F. Métayer, D. J. Suntrup III, C. Radin, H. L. Swinney and M. Schröter, 93 64033 (2011) pdf
Collective Motion of Surfactant-Producing Bacteria Imparts Superdiffusivity to Their Upper Surface
Avraham Be’er and Rasika M. Harshey, Biophysical Journal 101 3044 (2011) pdf
Demons Entropy and the Quest for Absolute Zero
Mark G. Raizen, Scientific American 304 54-59 (2011) pdf
Surviving Bacterial Sibling Rivalry: Inducible and Reversible Phenotypic Switching in Paenibacillus dendritiformis
Avraham Be’er, E.-L. Florin, Carolyn R. Fisher, Harry L. Swinney, and Shelley M. Payne, mBio 2 3 (2011) pdf
Porosity dependence of sound speed
Theodore F. Argo IV, Matthew D. Guild, and Preston S. Wilson, Matthias Schröter,Charles Radin, and Harry L. Swinney, J. Acoustical Society of America 129 EL101-EL106 (2011) pdf
Shiver me timbers: Pulsatile contractility in model tissues
Vernita D. Gordon, PNAS 108 3313363-13363 (2011) pdf