Publications

H. S. Ansell and D. M. Sussman, Universal scaling in the rheology of dense cellular systems, arXiv:2606.15100, (2026)

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T. H. Webb*, H. S. Ansell* and D. M. Sussman, Geometric control of motility-induced phase separation, Soft Matter  22 (23), 4082–4092 (2026)

* joint first author

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H. S. Ansell, C. Li and D. M. Sussman, Tunable glassy dynamics in models of dense cellular tissue, Phys. Rev. E 112, L013403 (2025)

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H. S. Ansell and I. A. Kovács, Unveiling universal aspects of the cellular anatomy of the brain, Comm. Phys. 7, 184 (2024) 

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Featured in the media in outlets including Northwestern Now, Science Daily, Science Alert, and Phys.org.

Featured in Comm. Phys. Collection: Top 25 downloaded papers of 2024

H. S. Ansell, S. J. Frank and I. A. Kovács, Cluster tomography in percolation, Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 043218  (2023)

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J. S. Zou, H. S. Ansell and I. A. Kovács, Multipartite entanglement in the random Ising chain, Phys. Rev. B 106, 054201 (2022)

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B. J. Hocking, H. S. Ansell, R. D. Kamien and T. Machon, Topological origin of the Peierls-Nabarro barrier, Proc. R. Soc. A 478, 20210725 (2022) 

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Featured in the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics, see writeup.

H. S. Ansell and R. D. Kamien, Twisted loxodromes in spindle-shaped polymer nematics, Soft Matter  17, 7076 (2021) 

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Featured on the front cover.

H. S. Ansell, A. A. Tomlinson and N. K. Wilkin, Transitions between phyllotactic lattice states in curved geometries, Sci. Rep. 10, 17411 (2020)

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H. S. Ansell*, D. S. Kim*, R. D. Kamien, E. Katifori and T. Lopez-Leon, Threading the spindle: a geometric study of chiral liquid crystal polymer microparticles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 157801 (2019) 

* joint first author

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See Penn Today writeup.