Publications - Irvine Lab

Articles and Preprints

2024	Self-propulsion, flocking and chiral active phases from particles spinning at intermediate Reynolds numbers [Link] [pdf] Panyu Chen, Scott Weady, Severine Atis, Takumi Matsuzawa, Michael J. Shelley, William T.M. Irvine Nature Physics (2024)
2023	Creation of an isolated turbulent blob fed by vortex rings [Link] [pdf] Takumi Matsuzawa, Noah P. Mitchell, Stéphane Perrard, William T.M. Irvine Nature Physics, 19, 1193-1200 (2023)
	Caged Colloids [Link] [pdf] Zhe Xu, Theodore Hueckel, William T.M. Irvine, Stefano Sacanna Chemistry of Materials 2023, 35 (16), 6357-6363
2022	Incompressible active phases at an interface. Part 1. Formulation and axisymmetric odd flows [Link] Leroy L. Jia, William T.M. Irvine, Michael J. Shelley Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 951, A36 (2022)
	Spatters and spills: Spreading dynamics for partially wetting droplets [Link] Sylvia C.L. Durian, Sam Dillavou, Kwame Markin, Adrian Portales, Bryan O. Torres Maldonado, William T.M. Irvine, Paulo E. Arratia, Douglas J. Durian Physics of Fluids 34, 012112 (2022)
	Motile dislocations knead odd crystals into whorls [Link] Ephraim S. Bililign, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Yehuda A. Ganan, Alexis Poncet, Vishal Soni, Sofia Magkiriadou, Michael J. Shelley, Denis Bartolo, William T. M. Irvine Nature Physics 18, 212-218 (2022)
2021	Transmembrane transport in inorganic colloidal cell-mimics [Link] Zhe Xu, Theodore Hueckel, William T. M. Irvine, Stefano Sacanna Nature 597, 220–224 (2021)
	Real-space origin of topological band gaps, localization, and reentrant phase transitions in gyroscopic metamaterials [Link] Noah P. Mitchell, Ari M. Turner, William T. M. Irvine Phys. Rev. E 104, 025007 (2021)
2020	Rectification in Nonequilibrium Parity Violating Metamaterials [PDF] [Link] Zhenghan Liao, William T. M. Irvine, Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan Phys. Rev. X 10, 021036 (2020)
	Odd elasticity [PDF] [Link] Colin Scheibner, Anton Souslov, Debarghya Banerjee, Piotr Surowka, William T. M. Irvine, Vincenzo Vitelli Nature Physics 16, 475–480 (2020)
2019	The odd free surface flows of a colloidal chiral fluid [PDF] [Link] Vishal Soni, Ephraim S. Bililign, Sofia Magkiriadou, Stefano Sacanna, Denis Bartolo, Michael J. Shelley, William T.M. Irvine Nature Physics 15, 11, 1188-1194 (2019)
	Starting Flow Past an Airfoil and its Acquired Lift in a Superfluid [PDF] [Link] Seth Musser, Davide Proment, Miguel Oronato, William T.M. Irvine Physical Review Letters 123, 154502 (2019)
2018	Tunable Band Topology in Gyroscopic Lattices [PDF] [Link] Noah P. Mitchell, Lisa M. Nash, William T. M. Irvine Physical Review B, 98, 174301 (2018)
	Helicity in superfluids: Existence and the classical limit [PDF] [Link] Hridesh Kedia, Dustin Kleckner, Martin W. Scheeler, William T. M. Irvine Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 104702 (2018)
	Realization of a Topological Phase Transition in a Gyroscopic Lattice [PDF] [Link] Noah P. Mitchell, Lisa M. Nash, William T. M. Irvine Physical Review B Rapid 97, 100302(R) (2018)
	Emergent Geometry of Inhomogeneous Planar Crystals [PDF] [Link] Vishal Soni, Leopoldo R. Gómez, William T. M. Irvine Phys. Rev. X 8, 011039 (2018)
	Amorphous topological insulators constructed from random point sets [PDF] [Link] Noah P. Mitchell, Lisa M. Nash, Daniel Hexner, Ari Turner, William T. M. Irvine Nature Physics, 14, 380–385 (2018)
2017	When do knots in light stay knotted? [PDF] [Link] Hridesh Kedia, Daniel Peralta-Salas, William T. M. Irvine Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 50, 49, 48LT01-485401 (2017)
	Complete measurement of helicity and its dynamics in vortex tubes [PDF] [Link] Martin W. Scheeler, Wim M. van Rees, Hridesh Kedia, Dustin Kleckner, William T. M. Irvine Science, 357, 6350, 487-491 (2017)
	Fracture in Sheets Draped on Curved Surfaces [PDF] [Link] Noah P. Mitchell, Vinzenz Koning, Vincenzo Vitelli, William T.M. Irvine Nature Materials 16, 89–93 (2017)
2016	Weaving knotted vector fields with tunable helicity [PDF] [Link] Hridesh Kedia, David Foster, Mark R. Dennis, William T. M. Irvine Physical Review Letters 117, 274501 (2016)
	How superfluid vortex knots untie [PDF] [Link] Dustin Kleckner, Louis H. Kauffman, William T.M. Irvine Nature Physics 12, 7, 650-655 (2016)
2015	Topological mechanics of gyroscopic metamaterials [PDF] [Link] Lisa M. Nash, Dustin Kleckner, Alismari Read, Vincenzo Vitelli, Ari M. Turner, William T.M. Irvine PNAS 112 47, 14495-15000 (2015)
	Shape-sensitive crystallization in colloidal superball fluids [PDF] [Link] Laura Rossi, Vishal Soni, Douglas J. Ashton, David J. Pine, Albert P.Philipse, Paul M. Chaikin, Marjolein Dijkstra, Stefano Sacanna, William T. M. Irvine PNAS 112 17, 5286-5290 (2015)
2014	Helicity conservation by flow across scales in reconnecting vortex links and knots [PDF] [Link] Martin W. Scheeler, Dustin Kleckner, Davide Proment, Gordon L. Kindlmann, William T.M. Irvine PNAS 111 43, 15356-15361 (2014)
	The life of a vortex knot [PDF] [Link] Dustin Kleckner, Martin W. Scheeler, William T.M. Irvine Phys. Fluids 26, 091105 (2014)
	Soft Epitaxy of Nanocrystal Superlattices [PDF] [Link] Sara Rupich, Fernando Castro, William T.M. Irvine, Dmitri Talapin Nature Communications, 5, 5054 (2014)
	Liquid crystals: Tangled loops and knots [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine and Dustin Kleckner Nature Materials 13, 229-231 (2014)
	Orientation-dependent Handedness and Chiral Design [PDF] [Link] Efi Efrati and William T.M. Irvine Physical Review X 4, 011003 (2014)
2013	The Life of a Vortex Knot [MP4] Dustin Kleckner, Martin Scheeler, William T.M. Irvine APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion, (2013) Winner of the Milton van Dyke Award for outstanding artistic value and scientific content
	Tying knots in light fields [PDF] [Link] Hridesh Kedia, Iwo Byalinizky-Birula, Daniel Peralta-Salas, William T.M. Irvine Physical Review Letters 111, 150404 (2013)
	The geometry and topology of soft materials [PDF] [Link] Vincenzo Vitelli and William T.M. Irvine Soft Matter 9, 8086 (2013)
	Dislocation reactions, grain boundaries and irreversibility in two dimensional lattices using topological tweezers [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, David G. Grier, Paul M. Chaikin PNAS 110, 39 15544-15548 (2013)
	Creation and dynamics of knotted vortices [PDF] [Link] Dustin Kleckner and William T.M. Irvine Nature Physics 9, 253-258 (2013)
2012	Geometric background charge: dislocations on capillary bridges [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine and Vincenzo Vitelli Soft Matter 8, 10123 (2012)
	Fractionalization of interstitials in curved colloidal crystals [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine, M. Bowick, P.M. Chaikin Nature Materials 11, 948951 (2012)
2010	Linked and knotted beams of light, conservation of helicity and the flow of null electromagnetic fields [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 43, 385203 (2010)

By the PI, pre-IrvineLab

	Cubic crystals from cubic colloids [PDF] [Link] Laura Rossi, Stefano Sacanna, William T.M. Irvine, Paul M. Chaikin, David J. Pine, Albert Philipse Soft Matter 7, 4139 (2011)
	Lock and key colloids through polymerization-induced buckling of monodispersed silicon oil droplets [PDF] [Link] Stefano Sacanna, William T.M. Irvine, Laura Rossi, Paul M. Chaikin, David J. Pine Soft Matter 7, 1631 (2011)
	Pleats in crystals on curved surfaces [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine, Vincenzo Vitelli, Paul M. Chaikin Nature 468, 947-951 (2010)
	Lock and key colloids [PDF] [Link] Stefano Sacanna, William T.M. Irvine, Paul M. Chaikin and David J. Pine Nature 464, 575-578 (2010) Lock and Key Colloids and Method of Manufacture, Patent Pending
	Polychromatic photonic quasicrystal cavities [PDF] [Link] Susanna M. Thon, William T.M. Irvine, Dustin Kleckner, Dirk Bouwmeester Physical Review Letters 104, 243901 (2010)
	Diffraction-limited high-finesse optical cavities [PDF] [Link] Dustin Kleckner, William T.M. Irvine, Sumant Oemrawsingh, Dirk Bouwmeester Physical Review A 81, 043814 (2010)
	Strong coupling through optical positioning of a quantum dot in a photonic crystal cavity [PDF] [Link] Susanna M. Thon, Matthew T. Rakher, Hyochul Kim, Jan Gudat, William T.M. Irvine, Pierre M. Petroff, Dirk Bouwmeester Applied Physics Letters 94, 111115 (2009).
	Linked and knotted beams of light [PDF] [Link] William T.M.Irvine and Dirk Bouwmeester Nature Physics 4, 716-720 (2008)
	High Finesse Opto-Mechanical Cavity with a Movable Thirty-Micron-Size Mirror [PDF] [Link] Dustin Kleckner, William Marshall, Michiel J.A. de Dood, Khodadad N. Dinyari, Bart-Jan Pors, William T.M. Irvine, Dirk Bouwmeester Physical Review Letters 96, 173901 (2006)
	Strong coupling between single photons in semiconductor micro-cavities [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine, Kevin Hennesey, Dirk Bouwmeester Physical Review Letters 96, 057405 (2006)
	Bloch theory of entangled photon generation in non-linear photonic crystals [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine, Michiel J.A. de Dood, Dirk Bouwmeester Physical Review A 72, 043815 (2005)
	Realisation of Hardy's thought experiment [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine, Juan H. Hodelin, Christoph Simon, Dirk Bouwmeester Physical Review Letters 95, 030401 (2005)
	Nonlinear Photonic Crystals as a Source of Entangled Photons [PDF] [Link] Michiel J.A. de Dood, William T.M. Irvine, Dirk Bouwmeester Physical Review Letters 93, 040504 (2003)
	Optimal Quantum Cloning on a Beam-splitter [PDF] [Link] William T.M. Irvine, Antia Lamas Linares, Michiel J.A. de Dood and Dirk Bouwmeester Physical Review Letters 92, 047902 (2003)
	Robust Long-Distance Entanglement and a Loophole-Free Bell Test with Ions and Photons [PDF] [Link] Christoph Simon and William T.M. Irvine Physical Review Letters 91, 110405 (2003)
	Generalised Bell Inequalities With Parametric Down-Conversion Antia Lamas Linares, William T.M. Irvine, John C. Howell, Dirk Bouwmeester Quantum Information and Computation on line 3, Special pp 471-479 (2003)
	Quantum jumps in singly ionized magnesium [Link] H.F. Powell, M.A. van Eijkelenborg, W.T.M. Irvine, D.M. Segal, R.C. Thompson, Journal of Physics B 34, 1-12 (2001)

In the News

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Fracture Mechanics

Elastic sheets: Cracks by design, Nature Materials News & Views, January (2017) [Link]

Topological Matter

Topological insulators: from graphene to gyroscopes, Physics Today, November (2018) [Link]
Spinning Top-ology, Nature Materials News & Views, January (2016) [Link]

Knotted Vortices

Taking the measure of water's whirl by Ashley G. Smart, Physics Today 70, 10, 20 (2017) [PDF]
Dancing Vortices, Clay Award Lecture by Éntienne Ghys, October (2015) [Link]
Knotted Vortex Lines, EMS Newsletter, June (2015) [Link]
Knotty Thrills, NOVA PBS Video Short, July 15th (2014) [Link] [YouTube]
Could Knots Unravel Mysteries of Fluid Flow?, Quanta Magazine, December 9th (2013) [Link]
La mystérieuse chorégraphie des anneaux de fumée, Sciences et Avenir, December 7th (2013) [Link]
Physicists twist water into knots, Nature News, March 3rd (2013) [Link]
Fluid dynamics: Lord Kelvin's vortex rings, Nature Physics News and Views, Vol. 9, 207-208 (2013) [Link] [PDF]
Physicists Tie Water Into Knots, NPR Science Friday, March 15th (2013) [Link] [Video Link] [Audio Link]
Physicists create vortex knot -- akin to 'tying a smoke ring', Wired, March 13th (2013) [Link]
Physicists Twist Water into Knots, Scientific American, March 6th (2013) [Link]
Unraveling the Physics of Invisible Knots, AAAS News, March 3rd (2013) [Link]
A vortex knot caught on camera, Physics Today, 66, 5 (2013) [Link] [PDF]
Knot Physics Experiment Uses Water To Create Amazing 'Knotted Vortex' Loop, Huffington Post Science, July 31st (2013) [Link]
Vortex Loops could untie knotty physics problems, UChicago News, March 4th (2013) [Link]

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Knotted Light

Tying Knots in Light, Scientific American, October 17th (2013) [Link]
Physicists tie light into knots, IOP Physics World, October 16th (2013) [Link]
Maxwell's Knots, American Physical Society Research Spotlight, October (2013) [Link]
Holograms tie optical vortices in knots, Physics Today, 63, 18 (2010)
Light's Ring-around the rosey, Optics & Photonics Focus, Vol. 3 (2008)
A Knot of Light, Science News (2008)
Physicists hope to tie light beams in knots, PhysOrg (2008)

Curved Crystals and Topological Defects

Taming topological defects with light, Physics Today 66 (11), 17 (2013) [Link] [PDF]
Breaking up in a curved plane, Nature Materials News and Views, Vol. 11, 912 (2012)
Self-healing Curved Crystals, NSF Discoveries, Sep. 30 (2012)
It's a wrap, Nature Physics Research Highlights, Vol. 7, 6 (2011)
Pleats are in fashion, Nature Physics Thesis, Vol. 7, 95 (2011)
Pleated crystals, Nature News and Views, Vol. 468, 906 (2010)

Lock and Key Colloids

Reconfigurable Colloids, Nature News and Views, Vol. 464, 496 (2010)
Colloidal Assembly, Nature Materials Research Highlights, Vol. 9, 378 (2010)
The key to colloid assembly, Chemistry World (2010)
Locks and keys build tiny structures, Physics World (2010)
Dai colloidi nuovi materiali auto-assemblanti, Le Scienze (2010)

Entangled Photons and Photonic Crystals

From patchy particles to entangled photons, Nature Materials, Vol.3, 582 (2004)

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