Yair Shokef's
Research Group

Nonequilibrium probability currents in optically-driven colloidal suspensions

S. Thapa, D. Zaretzky, R. Vatash, G. Gradziuk, C. Broedersz, Y. Shokef, and Y. Roichman

SciPost Phys. 17, 096 (2024)

Balloon Avalanche Hysteria

Y. Shokef

Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics May 2024, 3 (2024)

Emergent disorder and mechanical memory in periodic metamaterials

C. Sirote-Katz, D. Shohat, C. Merrigan, Y. Lahini, C. Nisoli, and Y. Shokef

Nature Communications 15, 4008 (2024)

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Bloch oscillations, Landau–Zener transition, and topological phase evolution in an array of coupled pendula

I. Neder, C. Sirote, M. Geva, Y. Lahini, R. Ilan, and Y. Shokef

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 121, e2310715121 (2024)

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Many-body interactions between contracting living cells

R. Golkov and Y. Shokef

European Physical Journal E 47, 14 (2024)

Emergent clustering due to quorum sensing interactions in active matter

S. Thapa, B-E. Pinchasik, and Y. Shokef

New Journal of Physics 26, 023010 (2024)

Percolation in networks of liquid diodes

C. Sammartino, Y. Shokef, and B-E. Pinchasik

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 14, 7697 (2023)

How to control frustration in materials

Y. Shokef

Frontiers for Young Minds 10, 773189 (2022)

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Introduction to force transmission by nonlinear biomaterials

X. Mao and Y. Shokef

Soft Matter 17, 10172 (2021)

Mean-field interactions between living cells in linear and nonlinear elastic matrices

C. Sirote and Y. Shokef

Physical Review E 104, 024411 (2021)

Putting a spin on metamaterials: Mechanical incompatibility as magnetic frustration

B. Pisanty, E. C. Oğuz, C. Nisoli, and Y. Shokef

SciPost Physics 10, 136 (2021)

Topologically protected steady cycles in an ice-like mechanical metamaterial

C. Merrigan, C. Nisoli, and Y. Shokef

Physical Review Research 3, 023174 (2021)

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Real-time steering of curved sound beams in a feedback-based topological acoustic metamaterial

L. Sirota, D. Sabsovich, Y. Lahini, R. Ilan, and Y. Shokef

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 153, 107479 (2021)

Constraint relaxation leads to jamming

E. Teomy and Y. Shokef

Physical Review E 102, 062155 (2020)

Feedback-based Topological Mechanical Metamaterials

L. Sirota, Y. Lahini, R. Ilan, and Y. Shokef

Fourteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel
Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials), pp. 415-417 (2020)

Non-Newtonian topological mechanical metamaterials using feedback control

L. Sirota, R. Ilan, Y. Shokef, and Y. Lahini

Physical Review Letters 125, 256802 (2020)

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Target finding in fibrous biological environments

D. Gomez, E. Teomy, A. Lesman, and Y. Shokef

New Journal of Physics 22, 103008 (2020)

Topology restricts quasidegeneracy in sheared square colloidal ice

E. C. Oğuz, A. Ortiz-Ambriz, H. Shem-Tov, E. Babià-Soler, P. Tierno, and Y. Shokef

Physical Review Letters 124, 238003 (2020)

Arrested states in persistent active matter: gelation without attraction

C. Merrigan, K. Ramola, R. Chatterjee, N. Segall, Y. Shokef, and B. Chakraborty

Physical Review Research 2, 013260 (2020)

Response evolution of mechanical metamaterials under architectural transformations

A. S. Meeussen, E. C. Oğuz, M. van Hecke, and Y. Shokef

New Journal of Physics 22, 023030 (2020)

Topological defects produce exotic mechanics in complex metamaterials

A. S. Meeussen, E. C. Oğuz, Y. Shokef, and M. van Hecke

Nature Physics 16, 307 (2020)

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Multiple peaks in the displacement distribution of active random walkers

E. Teomy, Y. Roichman, and Y. Shokef

Journal of Statistical Mechanics - Theory and Experiment, 113209 (2019)

Mechanical interaction between cells facilitates molecular transport

D. Gomez, S. Natan, Y. Shokef, and A. Lesman

Advanced Biosystems 3, 1900192 (2019)

Kinetically constrained model for gravity-driven granular flow and clogging

G. Bolshak, R. Chatterjee, R. Lieberman, and Y. Shokef

Physical Review E 100, 032137 (2019)

Motion of active tracer in a lattice gas with cross-shaped particles

R. Chatterjee, N. Segall, C. Merrigan, K. Ramola, B. Chakraborty, and Y. Shokef

Journal of Chemical Physics 150, 144508 (2019)

Elastic interactions between anisotropically contracting circular cells

R. Golkov and Y. Shokef

Physical Review E 99, 032418 (2019)

Attraction controls the entropy of fluctuations in isosceles triangular networks

F. Leoni and Y. Shokef

Entropy 20, 122 (2018)

Hydrodynamics in kinetically constrained lattice-gas models

E. Teomy and Y. Shokef

Physical Review E 95, 022124 (2017)

Attraction controls the inversion of order by disorder in buckled colloidal monolayers

F. Leoni and Y. Shokef

Physical Review Letters 118, 218002 (2017)

Shape regulation generates elastic interaction between active force dipoles

R. Golkov and Y. Shokef

New Journal of Physics 19, 063011 (2017)

Combinatorial design of textured mechanical metamaterials

C. Coulais, E. Teomy, K. de Reus, Y. Shokef, and M. van Hecke

Nature 535, 529 (2016)

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Jamming vs. caging in three dimensional jamming percolation

N. Segall, E. Teomy, and Y. Shokef

Journal of Statistical Mechanics - Theory and Experiment 054051 (2016)

Relation between structure of blocked clusters and relaxation dynamics in kinetically constrained models

E. Teomy and Y. Shokef

Physical Review E 92, 032133 (2015)

Response of adherent cells to mechanical perturbations of the surrounding matrix

D. Ben-Yaakov, R. Golkov, Y. Shokef, and S.A. Safran

Soft Matter 11, 1412 (2015)

Finite-density effects in the Fredrickson-Andersen and Kob-Andersen kinetically-constrained models

E. Teomy and Y. Shokef

The Journal of Chemical Physics 141, 064110 (2014)

Jamming by shape in kinetically-constrained models

E. Teomy and Y. Shokef

Physical Review E 89, 032204 (2014)

Jamming percolation in three dimensions

A. Ghosh, E. Teomy, and Y. Shokef

Europhysics Letters 106, 16003 (2014)

Buckled colloidal monolayers connect geometric frustration in soft and hard matter

Y. Shokef, Y. Han, A. Souslov, A.G. Yodh, and T.C. Lubensky

Soft Matter 9, 6565 (2013)

Jamming transition of kinetically-constrained models in rectangular systems

E. Teomy and Y. Shokef

Physical Review E 86, 051133 (2012)

Erratum: Scaling laws for the response of nonlinear elastic media with implications for cell mechanics

Y. Shokef and S.A. Safran

Physical Review Letters 109, 169901 (2012)

Scaling laws for the response of nonlinear elastic media with implications for cell mechanics

Y. Shokef and S.A. Safran

Physical Review Letters 108, 178103 (2012)

Dichotomic fluxoid quantization effects in a superconducting double network

I. Sochnikov, Y. Shokef, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 400, 022110 (2012)

Fluxoid quantization effects in high-Tc superconducting double networks

I. Sochnikov, Y. Shokef, G. Logvenov, I. Božovic, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 400, 022109 (2012)

Order-by-disorder in the antiferromagnetic Ising model on an elastic triangular lattice

Y. Shokef, A. Souslov, and T.C. Lubensky

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108, 11804 (2011)

Single-loop like energy oscillations and staircase vortex occupation in superconducting double networks

I. Sochnikov, Y. Shokef, A. Shaulov, and Y. Yeshurun

Physical Review B 84, 024513 (2011)

Effective temperature of red blood cell membrane fluctuations

E. Ben-Isaac, Y.K. Park, G. Popescu, F.L.H. Brown, N.S. Gov, and Y. Shokef

Physical Review Letters 106, 238103 (2011)

Jamming mechanisms and density dependence in a kinetically-constrained model

Y. Shokef and A.J. Liu

Europhysics Letters 90, 26005 (2010)

Randomness-induced redistribution of vibrational frequencies in amorphous solids

V. Ilyin, I. Procaccia, I. Regev, and Y. Shokef

Physical Review B 80, 174201 (2009)

Stripes, zigzags, and slow dynamics in buckled hard spheres

Y. Shokef and T.C. Lubensky

Physical Review Letters 102, 048303 (2009)

Geometric frustration in buckled colloidal monolayers

Y. Han, Y. Shokef, A.M. Alsayed, P. Yunker, T.C. Lubensky, and A.G. Yodh

Nature 456, 898 (2008)

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Frequency-dependent fluctuation-dissipation relations in granular gases

G. Bunin, Y. Shokef, and D. Levine

Physical Review E 77, 051301 (2008)

Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of dividing cell populations

N. Brenner and Y. Shokef

Physical Review Letters 99, 138102 (2007)

Isolated non-equilibrium systems in contact

Y. Shokef, G. Shulkind, and D. Levine

Physical Review E 76, 030101(R) (2007)

Energy distribution and effective temperatures in a driven dissipative model

Y. Shokef and D. Levine

Physical Review E 74, 051111 (2006)

Fluctuation-dissipation relations in driven dissipative systems

Y. Shokef, G. Bunin, and D. Levine

Physical Review E 73, 046132 (2006)

Studying hydrodynamic instabilities using shock-tube experiments

O. Sadot, K. Levy, A. Yosef-Hai, D. Cartoon, Y. Elbaz, Y. Srebro, G. Ben-Dor, and D. Shvarts

Astrophysics and Space Science 298, 305 (2005)

Multidimensional analysis of direct-drive, plastic-shell implosions on OMEGA

P. B. Radha, T. J. B. Collins, J. A. Delettrez, Y. Elbaz, R. Epstein, V. Yu. Glebov, V. N. Goncharov, R. L. Keck, J. P. Knauer, J. A. Marozas, F. J. Marshall, R. L. McCrory, P. W. McKenty, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, W. Seka, D. Shvarts, S. Skupsky, Y. Srebro, and C. Stoeckl

Physics of Plasmas 12, 056307 (2005)

Two-dimensional simulations of plastic-shell, direct-drive implosions on OMEGA

P. B. Radha, V. N. Goncharov, T. J. B. Collins, J. A. Delettrez, Y. Elbaz, V. Yu. Glebov, R. L. Keck, D. E. Keller, J. P. Knauer, J. A. Marozas, F. J. Marshall, P. W. McKenty, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, D. Shvarts, S. Skupsky, Y. Srebro, R. P. J. Town, and C. Stoeckl

Physics of Plasmas 12, 032702 (2005)

Comment on "Temperature in nonequilibrium systems with conserved energy"

Y. Shokef and D. Levine

Physical Review Letters 94, 208901 (2005)

Exactly solvable model for driven dissipative systems

Y. Shokef and D. Levine

Physical Review Letters 93, 240601 (2004)

Role of friction in compaction and segregation of granular materials

Y. Shokef and D. Levine

Physical Review E 68, 061301 (2003)

Modeling turbulent mixing in inertial confinement fusion implosions

Y. Srebro, D. Kushnir, Y. Elbaz, and D. Shvarts

Laser and Particle Beams 21, 355-361 (2003)

A general buoyancy-drag model for the evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities

Y. Srebro, Y. Elbaz, O. Sadot, L. Arazi, and D. Shvarts

Laser and Particle Beams 21, 347-353 (2003)

Scaling in the shock-bubble interaction

K. Levy, O. Sadot, A. Rikanati, D. Kartoon, Y. Srebro, A. Yosef-Hai, G. Ben-Dor, and D. Shvarts

Laser and Particle Beams 21, 335-339 (2003)

Optical and plasma smoothing of laser imprinting in targets driven by lasers with SSD bandwidths up to 1 THz

T. R. Boehly, V. N. Goncharov, O. Gotchev, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. Oron, S. P. Regan, Y. Srebro, W. Seka, D. Shvarts, S. Skupsky, and V. A. Smalyuk

Physics of Plasmas 8, 2331-2337 (2001)

Scaling laws of nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities in two and three dimensions

D. Shvarts, D. Oron, D. Kartoon, A. Rikanati, O. Sadot, Y. Srebro, Y. Yedvab, D. Ofer, A. Levin, E. Sarid, G. Ben-Dor, L. Erez, G. Erez, A. Yosef-Hai, U. Alon, and L. Arazi

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Series IV - Physics 1, 719-726 (2000)

Studies in the nonlinear evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities and their role in inertial confinement fusion

D. Oron, O. Sadot, Y. Srebro, A. Rikanati, Y. Yedvab, U. Alon, L. Erez, G. Erez, G. Ben-Dor, L. A. Levin, D. Ofer, and D. Shvarts

Laser and Particle Beams 17, 465-475 (1999)

Nonlinear evolution of broad-bandwidth, laser-imprinted nonuniformities in planar targets accelerated by 351-nm laser light

V. A. Smalyuk, T. R. Boehly, D. K. Bradley, V. N. Gonocharov, J. A. Delettrez, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. Oron, D. Shvarts , Y. Srebro, and R. P. J. Town

Physics of Plasmas 6, 4022-4036 (1999)