Forschungsschwerpunkte:

• Statistische Physik ungeordneter Systeme
• Statik und Dynamik granularer Materie
• Weiche Materie im Weltraum
• Experimente in Schwerelosigkeit

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Abschlüsse, Auszeichnungen, aktuelle Funktionen:

Ausgewählte Publikationen der letzten Jahre:

• David Fischer, Ralf Stannarius, Karsten Tell, Peidong Yu, and Matthias Sperl, Force chains in crystalline and frustrated packings of uniform spheres visualized by stress-birefringence, Soft Matter 17, 4317 (2021).
• Peidong Yu, Matthias Schröter, and Matthias Sperl, Velocity Distribution of a Homogeneously Cooling Granular Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208007(2020).
• Juan Petit, Nishant Kumar, Stefan Luding, and Matthias Sperl, Additional transition line in jammed asymmetric bidisperse granular packings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215501 (2020).
• Victoria Engelschion, Sarah Eriksson, Aidan Cowley, Miranda Fateri, Alexandre Meurisse, Ulrich Kueppers, and Matthias Sperl, EAC-1A: A novel large-volume lunar regolith simulant, Nature Scientific Reports 10, 5473 (2020).
• Suvendu Mandal, Lukas Schrack, Hartmut Löwen, Matthias Sperl, and Thomas Franosch, Persistent anti-correlations in Brownian dynamics simulations of dense colloidal suspensions revealed by noise canceling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 168001 (2019).
• Masato Adachi, Peidong Yu, and Matthias Sperl, Magnetic Excitation of a Granular Gas as a Bulk Thermostat, Nature Microgravity 5, 19 (2019).
• W. Till Kranz, Fabian Frahsa, Annette Zippelius, Matthias Fuchs, and Matthias Sperl, Rheology of inelastic hard spheres at finite density and shear rate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 148002 (2018).
• Philip Born, Johannes Schmitz, and Matthias Sperl, Dense fluidized granular media in microgravity, Nature Microgravity 3, 27 (2017).
• Hideyuki Mizuno, Leonardo E. Silbert, and Matthias Sperl, Spatial Distributions of Local Elastic Moduli Near the Jamming Transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068302 (2016).