Home Page of Xiaoming Mao

Research Interests:

I have a wide range of interests in soft condensed matter, statistical physics and biophysics, focusing on the following topics:

* Soft materials and their rigidity threshold,

* Polymer networks,

* Amorphous solids, glasses, granular materials and their anomalous vibrational modes,

* Phase transitions in disordered systems,

* Self-assembly of novel particles,

* Cytoskeleton and motility of cells.

Selected Publications and Presentations:

1. Kai Sun, Anton Souslov, Xiaoming Mao, and T. C. Lubensky,
“Isostaticity, auxetic response, surface modes, and conformal invariance in twisted kagome lattices”,
arXiv:1112.1109v1, submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2. Chase P. Broedersz, Xiaoming Mao, F.C. MacKintosh, and T. C. Lubensky,
“Criticality and isostaticity in fiber networks”,
Nature Physics 7, 983 (2011). (arXiv:1011.6535v1)
See accompanying News and Views "Materials physics: Bending Maxwell's rule" by Erik van der Giessen.

3. Xiaoming Mao, Ning Xu, and T. C. Lubensky,
“Soft modes and elasticity of nearly isostatic lattices: randomness and dissipation”,
Physical Review Letters 104, 085504 (2010).

4. Xiaoming Mao, Paul M. Goldbart, Xiangjun Xing and Annette Zippelius,
“Soft random solids and their heterogeneous elasticity ”,
Physical Review E 80, 031140 (2009).

5. Xiaoming Mao, Paul M. Goldbart, Marc Mézard and Martin Weigt,
“Cavity approach to the random solid state”,
Physical Review Letters 95, 148302 (2005).

6. March Meeting 2010 of the American Physical Society invited talk
“Elasticity and response in nearly isostatic periodic lattices”.

7. Talk at the “Materials and the Imagination” Conference, Aspen, CO (2011)
“Criticality and isostaticity in fiber networks”.

8. Special Physics Colloquium at University of Colorado Boulder (2011)
“Isostaticity and a Unified View of Soft Elasticity”. (PDF version)