Programmable Matter

This package allows you to (i) generate lattice, (ii) convert lattice file to GSD file, (iii) run HOOMD simulations, and (iv) perform many analyses. Most features (based on papers below) are stable and some new features are under development.

Paper

See our published papers:

1. Paul Z. Hanakata, Abigail Plummer, David R. Nelson , Anomalous thermal expansion in Ising-like puckered sheets, Phys. Rev. Lett, 128, 075902 (2022).
2. Abigail Plummer*, Paul Z. Hanakata*, David R. Nelson , Curvature as an external field in mechanical antiferromagnets, Phys. Rev. Materials 6, 115203 (2022).

Overview

This project's directory structure is as follows:

• phase-transitions/: a package contains HOOMD scripts and analysis code to study reprogrammble sheets with bistable units

To download

git clone https://github.com/phanakata/programmable-matter

Code developer

Paul Hanakata

Citation

If you use this package/code/datasets, build on or find our research is useful for your work please cite

@article{PhysRevLett.128.075902,
  title = {Anomalous Thermal Expansion in Ising-like Puckered Sheets},
  author = {Hanakata, Paul Z. and Plummer, Abigail and Nelson, David R.},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume = {128},
  issue = {7},
  pages = {075902},
  numpages = {7},
  year = {2022},
  month = {Feb},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.075902},
  url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.075902}
}
@article{PhysRevMaterials.6.115203,
  title = {Curvature as an external field in mechanical antiferromagnets},
  author = {Plummer, Abigail and Hanakata, Paul Z. and Nelson, David R.},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Mater.},
  volume = {6},
  issue = {11},
  pages = {115203},
  numpages = {18},
  year = {2022},
  month = {Nov},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.115203},
  url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.115203}
}

References

• Paul Z. Hanakata, Abigail P. Plummer, David R. Nelson , Anomalous thermal expansion in Ising-like puckered sheets, Phys. Rev. Lett, 128, 075902 (2022).
• Abigail Plummer*, Paul Z. Hanakata*, David R. Nelson , Curvature as an external field in mechanical antiferromagnets, Phys. Rev. Materials 6, 115203 (2022).