Xing Research Group Contact Information Website: http://physics.syr.edu/~xxing/ Email: xxing@syr.edu Research Interests   Elastic properties of unconventional solids, such as liquid crystalline elastomers, chiral solids. Elasticity theory and defects physics in curved space, application of differential geometry to soft condensed matters. Rate independent hysteresis phenomena. Lattice toy models on granular physics: dimer models and others Sample Publications 1. X. Xing, L. Radzihovsky, "Nonlinear Elasticity, Fluctuations and Heterogeneity of Nematic Elastomers." arXiv:0709.3665 [cond-mat.soft] (2007). 2. X. Xing, "Geometry and Topology of 1D Translational Order on Curved Surface." arXiv:0708.3182 [cond-mat.soft] (2007). 3. X. Xing, "A Semigroup Theory of Rate Independent Hysteresis." arXiv:0707.3302 [cond-mat.dis-nn] (2007). 4. X. Mao, P. M. Goldbart, X. Xing, A. Zippelius, "Elastic heterogeneity of soft random solids." arXiv:cond-mat/0610407 [cond-mat.dis-nn] (2006). 5. X. Xing, P. M. Goldbart, L. Radzihovsky, "Thermal Fluctuations and Rubber Elasticity." arXiv:cond-mat/0609533 [cond-mat.soft] (2006). Return to Research

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