Publications
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Research articles
Submitted
- X. Ouyang, S. Sutradhar, O. Trottier, S. Shree, Q. Yu, Y. Tu, J. Howard, Neurons exploit stochastic growth to rapidly and economically build dense radially oriented dendritic arbors, bioRxiv 2025.02.24.639873 (2025). [bioRxiv link]
- A. Papagiannakis, Q. Yu, S. K. Govers, W-H Lin, N. S. Wingreen, C. Jacobs-Wagner, Nonequilibrium polysome dynamics promote chromosome segregation and its coupling to cell growth in Escherichia coli, eLife 14, RP104276 (2025). [bioRxiv link] [eLife link]
- S. A. Quinodoz$^{=}$, L. Jiang$^{=}$, A. Abu-Alfa, T. Comi, H. Zhao, Q. Yu, …, A. Košmrlj, D. L. Lafontaine, S. Klinge, C. P. Brangwynne, Mapping and engineering RNA-controlled architecture of the multiphase nucleolus, bioRxiv 2024.09.28.615444 (2024) [bioRxiv link]
- Q. Yu and A. Košmrlj, Pattern formation of phase-separated lipid domains in bilayer membranes, arXiv 2309.05160 (2023). [arXiv link] [PDF].
2025
- C. W. Lynn, Q. Yu, R. Pang, W. Bialek, and S. E. Palmer, Exactly solvable statistical physics models for large neuronal populations, Physical Review Research, in press (2025). [arXiv link]
- C. W. Lynn, Q. Yu, R. Pang, S. E. Palmer, and W. Bialek, Exact minimax entropy models of large-scale neuronal activity, Physical Review E, in press (2025). [arXiv link]
2024
- D. Hathcock$^{=}$, Q. Yu$^{=}$, and Y. Tu, Time-reversal symmetry breaking in the chemosensory array: asymmetric switching and dissipation-enhanced sensing, Nature Communications, 15, 8892 (2024). [Journal link] [PDF].
- Q. Yu$^{=}$ and P. E. Harunari$^{=}$, Dissipation at limited resolutions: Power law and detection of hidden dissipative scales, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2024, 103201 (2024). [Journal link] [PDF].
2023
- D. Hathcock$^{=}$, Q. Yu$^{=}$, B. 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, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2303115120 (2023). [Journal link] [PDF].
2022
- Q. Yu and Y. Tu, Energy cost for flocking of active spins: The Cusped Dissipation Maximum at the Flocking Transition, Physical Review Letters, 129, 278001 (2022). [Journal link] [PDF].
- Q. Yu and Y. Tu, State-space renormalization group theory of nonequilibrium reaction networks: Exact solutions for hypercubic lattices in arbitrary dimensions, Physical Review E, 105, 044140 (2022). [Journal link] [PDF].
- Q. Yu, A. B. Kolomeisky, and O. A. Igoshin, The energy cost and optimal design of networks for biological discrimination, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 19, 20210883 (2022). [Journal link] [PDF].
$\leq$ 2021
- Q. Yu, D. Zhang, and Y. Tu, Inverse Power Law Scaling of Energy Dissipation Rate in Nonequilibrium Reaction Networks, Physical Review Letters, 126, 080601 (2021). [Journal link] [PDF].
- Q. Yu, J. D. Mallory, A. B. Kolomeisky, J. Ling, and O. A. Igoshin, Trade-Offs between Speed, Accuracy, and Dissipation in tRNA$^{Ile}$ Aminoacylation, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11, 4001-4007 (2020). [Journal link] [PDF].
Science Communications (articles for the public)
Princeton Insights is a journal run by Princeton graduate and postdoctoral researchers. It highlights some of the most exciting and groundbreaking work at Princeton through short, accessible reviews. I have written a few articles for the Insights:
Topology helps slime bacteria form fruiting bodies. (Dec 2021) This article reviews research led by Drs. Katherine Copenhagen and Ricard Alert. The original paper was published in Nature Physics.
Understanding the arrow of time across scales and complexity (Nov 2022) This article reviews research led by Dr. Christopher Lynn. The original paper was published in Physical Review Letters.