Publications

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Preprints

  1. D. Hathcock and J.P. Sethna, "Phase transitions beyond criticality: extending Ising universal scaling functions to describe entire phases," submitted, arXiv:2402.18531. [PDF]

Journal Articles

  1. M. Halte, P.F. Popp, D. Hathcock*, J. Severn*, S. Fischer, C. Goosmann, A. Ducret, E. Charpentier, Y. Tu, E. Lauga, M. Erhardt, and T.T. Renault, "Bacterial motility depends on a critical flagellum length and energy-optimised assembly," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 122, e2413488122 (2025). [PDF] [SI]
  2. D. Hathcock*, S. Dillavou*, J.H. Hanlan, D.J. Durian, and Y. Tu, "Stochastic dynamics of granular hopper flows: a configurational mode controls the stability of clogs," Phys. Rev. E. (Letter) 111, L023404 (2025). [PDF] [SI]
  3. D. Hathcock*, Q. Yu*, and Y. Tu, "Time-reversal symmetry breaking in the chemosensory array reveals a general mechanism for dissipation-enhanced cooperative sensing," Nat. Commun. 15, 8892 (2024). [PDF] [SI]
  4. J.P. Sethna, D. Hathcock, J. Kent-Dobias, and A. Raju, "Normal forms, universal scaling functions, and extending the validity of the RG," in 50 Years of the Renormalization Group: Dedicated to the Memory of Michael E Fisher, World Scientific (2024). [PDF]
  5. D. Hathcock*, Q. Yu*, B.A. Mello, D.N. Amin, G.L. Hazelbauer, and Y. Tu, "A nonequilibrium allosteric model for receptor-kinase complexes: The role of energy dissipation in chemotaxis signaling," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 120, e2303115120 (2023). [PDF] [SI]
  6. T. Yang*, D. Hathcock*, Y. Chen, P. McEuen, J.P. Sethna, I. Cohen, and I. Griniasty, "Bifurcation instructed design of multistate machines," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 120, e2300081120 (2023). [PDF] [SI]
  7. D. Hathcock and S.H. Strogatz, "Asymptotic Absorption-Time Distributions in Extinction-Prone Markov Processes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 218301 (2022). [PDF] [SI]
  8. C. Weisenberger*, D. Hathcock*, and M. Hinczewski, "Cellular signaling beyond the Wiener-Kolmogorov limit," J. Phys. Chem. B 125, 12698 (2021). [PDF] [SI]
  9. D. Hathcock and J.P. Sethna, "Reaction rates and the noisy saddle-node bifurcation: Renormalization group for barrier crossing," Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013156 (2021). [PDF]
  10. D. Hathcock, R. Tehver, M. Hinczewski, and D. Thirumalai, "Myosin V executes steps of variable length via structurally constrained diffusion," eLife 9, e51569 (2020). [PDF] [SI]
  11. D. Hathcock and S.H. Strogatz, "Fitness dependence of the fixation-time distribution for evolutionary dynamics on graphs," Phys. Rev. E 100, 012408 (2019). Featured as an Editors' suggestion. [PDF] [SI]
  12. S. Chandra, D. Hathcock, K. Crain, T. Antonsen, M. Girvan, and E. Ott, "Modeling the network dynamics of pulse-coupled neurons," Chaos 27, 033102 (2017). [PDF]
  13. D. Hathcock, J. Sheehy, C. Weisenberger, E. Ilker, and M. Hinczewski, "Noise Filtering and Prediction in Biological Signaling Networks," IEEE Trans. Mol. Biol. Multi-Scale Commun. 2, 16 (2016). [PDF]
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