List of Publications

Letters and full papers

  1. Chihiro Uemura, Akio Nakahara, Yousuke Matsuo and Takahiro Iwata, "Transition condition between memories of vibration and flow in the memory effect of paste", accepted for publication on Physical Review E 109 (2024).
  2. Ryu Baba, Kazuhiro Fujimaki, Chihiro Uemura, Yousuke Matsuo, Akio Nakahara and Akinori Muramatsu, "Assisting and elininating memory effects of paste by adding polysaccharides", Physical Review E 108 (2023) 054602. (DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.054602). pdf
  3. So Kitsunezaki, Akihiro Nishimoto, Tsuyoshi Mizuguchi, Yousuke Matsuo and Akio Nakahara, "X-ray computerized tomography observation of Lycopodium paste incorporating memory of shaking", Physical Review E 105 (2022) 044902. (DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.044902). pdf
  4. Roland Szatmari, Zoltan Halasz, Akio Nakahara, So Kitsunezaki and Ferenc Kun, "Evolution of anisotropic crack patterns in shrinking material layers", Soft Matter 17 (2021) pp. 10005-10015. (DOI 10.1039/d1sm01193f). pdf
  5. Akio Nakahara, Tomoki Hiraoka, Rokuya Hayashi, Yousuke Matsuo and So Kitsunezaki, "Mechanism of memory effect of paste which dominates desiccation crack patterns", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 377 (2018) 20170395. (DOI 10.1098/rsta.2017.0395). pdf
  6. So Kitsunezaki, Arina Sasaki, Akihiko Nishimoto, Tsuyoshi Mizuguchi, Yousuke Matsuo and Akio Nakahara, "Memory effect and anisotropy of particle arrangements in granular paste", European Physical Journal E 40 (2017) 88. pdf
  7. Zoltan Halasz, Akio Nakahara, So Kitsunezaki and Ferenc Kun, "Effect of disorder on shrinkage-induced fragmentation of a thin brittle layer", Physical Review E 96 (2017) 033006 (selected as Editors' Suggestion). pdf
  8. So Kitsunezaki, Akio Nakahara and Yousuke Matsuo, "Stress development up to crack formation in drying paste", Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan 50 (2017) 775-779. pdf
  9. So Kitsunezaki, Akio Nakahara and Yousuke Matsuo, "Shaking-induced stress anisotropy in the memory effect of paste", Europhysics Letters 114 (2016) 64002. pdf
  10. Takeshi Matsumoto, Michio Otsuki, Ooshida Takeshi, Susumu Goto, and Akio Nakahara, "Response function of turbulence computed via fluctuation-response relation of a Langevin system with vanishing noise", Phys. Rev. E 89 (2014) 061002(R). pdf
  11. Ooshida Takeshi, Susumu Goto, Takeshi Matsumoto, Akio Nakahara, and Michio Otsuki, "Analytical Calculation of Four-Point Correlations for a Simple Model of Cages Involving Numerous Particles", Phys. Rev. E 88 (2013) 062108. pdf
  12. Hiroshi Nakayama, Yousuke Matsuo, Ooshida Takeshi and Akio Nakahara, "Position control of desiccation cracks by memory effect and Faraday waves", European Physical Journal E 36 (2013) 1. pdf
  13. Ooshida Takeshi, Susumu Goto, Takeshi Matsumoto, Akio Nakahara, and Michio Otsuki, "An apporoach to glassy systems with direct-interaction approximation", Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement 195 (2012) 157-166. pdf
  14. Y. Matsuo and A. Nakahara, "Effect of interaction on the formation of memories in paste", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 81 (2012) 024801. pdf
  15. A. Nakahara, Y. Shinohara and Y. Matsuo, "Control of crack pattern using memory effect of paste", J. Physics: Conf. Ser. 319 (2011) 012014. pdf
  16. Ooshida Takeshi, Susumu Goto, Takeshi Matsumoto, Akio Nakahara, and Michio Otsuki, "Continuum Theory of Single-File Diffusion in terms of Label Variable", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80 (2011) 074007. pdf
  17. "Desiccation Cracks", in Backscatter, Physics Today 60 (2007) no. 9, p. 116. pdf
  18. A. Nakahara and Y. Matsuo, "Transition in the pattern of cracks resulting from memory effects in paste", Phys. Rev. E, 74 (2006) 045102(R). pdf
  19. A. Nakahara and Y. Matsuo, "Imprinting memory into paste to control crack formation in drying process", J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. (2006) P07016. pdf
  20. A. Nakahara and Y. Matsuo, "Imprinting Memory Into Paste and Its Visualization as Crack Patterns in Drying Process", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 74 (2005) 1362-1365. pdf
  21. A. Nakahara, "1/f noise in pipe flow", in Physics of Dry Granular Media, H. J. Herrmann, J. -P. Hovi and S. Luding eds., (NATO ASI Series E 350, Kluwer Academic Publishies, Dordrecht, 1998) p. 533-538.
  22. A. Nakahara and T. Isoda, "1/f density fluctuation at the slugging transition point of granular flows through a pipe", Phys. Rev. E 55 (1997) 4264-4273. pdf
  23. S. Horikawa, T. Isoda, T. Nakayama, A. Nakahara and M. Matsushita, "Self-Organized Critical Density Waves of Granular Particles Flowing through a Pipe", Physica A 233 (1996) 699-708.
  24. A. Nakahara, Y. Shimada, J. Wakita, M. Matsushita and T. Matsuyama, "Morphological Diversity of the Colony Produced by Bacteria Proteus mirabilis", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 65 (1996) 2700-2706.
  25. J. Suda, T. Nakayama, A. Nakahara and M. Matsushita, "Morphological Diversity in the Crystal Growth of Potassium Dichromate in Gelatin Gel", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 65 (1996) 771-777.
  26. Y. Shimada, A. Nakahara, M. Matsushita and T. Matsuyama, "Spatiotemporal Patterns Produced by Bacteria", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 64 (1995) 1896-1899.
  27. S. Horikawa, A. Nakahara, T. Nakayama and M. Matsushita, "Self-Organized Critical Density Waves of Granular Material Flowing through a Pipe", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 64 (1995) 1870-1873.
  28. T. Nakayama, A. Nakahara and M. Matsushita, "Cluster-Cluster Aggregation of Calcium Carbonate Colloid Particles at the Air/Water Interface", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 64 (1995) 1114-1119.
  29. K. Komatsu, J. Wakita, A. Nakahara and M. Matsushita, "Pattern Formation by Reproducible Random Walkers in Irreversibly Expandable Enclosure", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 63 (1994) 3230-3233.
  30. J. Wakita, K. Komatsu, A. Nakahara T. Matsuyama and M. Matsushita, "Experimetal Investigation on the Validity of Population Dynamics Approach to Bacterial Colony Formation", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 63 (1994) 1205-1211.
  31. A. Nakahara, T. Kawakatsu and K. Kawasaki, "A Local Dynamical Scaling Behavior of the Ostwald Ripening in Nonuniform Systems", J. Chem. Phys. 99 (1993) 9853-9864.
  32. A. Nakahara, T. Kawakatsu and K. Kawasaki, "Ostwald Ripening in Open Systems", J. Chem. Phys. 95 (1991) 4407-4417.

Proceedings (Refereed)

  1. A. Nakahara, R. Yoneyama, M. Ito, Y. Matsuo and So Kitsunezaki, "Erasure of memory in paste by irradiation of ultrasonic waves", European Physical Journal: Web of Conferences 140 (2017) 12007.
  2. A. Nakahara, A. Katsuki and Y. Matsuo, "Memories in Paste Control Crack Pattern", in Powders and Grains '09, M. Nakagawa and S. Luding eds., (AIP Conference Proceedings 1145, AIP, NewYork, 2009), pp. 1015-1018.
  3. A. Nakahara and Y. Matsuo, "Morphological change of crack patterns induced by memory effect of drying paste", in Traffic and Granular Flow '05, R. Kuehne, T. Poeschel, A. Shadschneider, M. Schreckenberg, and D. E. Wolf eds., (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006), p. 181-186.
  4. A. Nakahara and Y. Matsuo, "Imprinting memory into paste to control crack patterns in the drying process", in Powders and Grains '05, Garcia-Rojo, Herrmann and McNamara eds., (Balkema, Rotterdam, 2005), p. 1081-1085.
  5. M. Shimokawa, S. Ohta, and A. Nakahara, "The experimental study on a period of granular stratification pattern", in Powders and Grains '05, Garcia-Rojo, Herrmann and McNamara eds., (Balkema, Rotterdam, 2005), p. 1295-1298.
  6. A. Nakahara and Y. Matsuo, "Crack patterns in Drying Process Show Memories Contained inside Granular Networks", in Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems, M. Tokuyama and I. Oppenheim eds., (AIP Conference Proceedings 708, AIP, New York, 2004) p. 432-433.
  7. A. Nakahara and M. Nakahara, "Spatial structure of 1/f noise in granular flow through a pipe", in Traffic and Granular Flow '01, M. Fukui, G. Sugiyama, M. Schreckenberg, and D. E. Wolf eds., (Springer-Verlag, 2003) p. 479-484.
  8. T. Nakayama, A. Nakahara and M. Matsushita, "Cluster-Cluster Aggregation of Calcium Carbonate at Air/Water Interface", in Mesoscopic Materials and Clusters : Their Physical and Chemical Properties, T. Arai, K. Mihama, K. Yamamoto, and S. Sugano eds., (Springer Series in Cluster Physics, Springer, 1999) p. 145-151.
  9. A. Nakahara, "Spatial structure of granular flow through a pipe", in Statistical Physics, M. Tokuyama and H. E. Stanley eds., (AIP Conference Proceedings 519, AIP, New York, 2000) p. 182-184.
  10. A. Nakahara, "1/f noise in granular flow through a pipe", in Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems, M. Tokuyama and I. Oppenheim eds., (AIP Conference Proceedings 469, AIP, New York, 1999) p. 134-135.
  11. M. Matsushita, J. Wakita, K. Komatsu, A. Nakahara and T. Matsuyama, "Growth Dynamics of Bacterial Colonies and Their Morphological Change", in Dynamical Systems and Chaos, Vol. 2, Physics, Y. Aizawa, S. Saito and K. Shiraiwa eds., (World Scientific, Singapore, 1995) p. 151-160.
  12. A. Nakahara, T. Kawakatsu and K. Kawasaki, "Ostwald Ripening of Precipitates in Open Subsystems", in Pattern Formation in Complex Dissipative Systems, S. Kai ed., (World Scientific, Singapore, 1992) p. 88-92.
  13. A. Nakahara, T. Kawakatsu and K. Kawasaki, "Ostwald Ripening in Open Systems", in Slow Dynamics in Condensed Matter, K. Kawasaki, M. Tokuyama and T. Kawakatsu eds., (AIP Conference Proceedings 256, AIP, New York, 1992) p. 553-554.

Book

  1. Desiccation Cracks and their Patterns: Formation and Modelling in Science and Nature, Lucas Goehring, Akio Nakahara, Tapati Dutta, So Kitsunezaki, Sujata Tarafdar (Wiley, April 2015) Wiley homepage

Invited talks

  1. A. Nakahara, "Memory effect of clay paste and its application to control desiccation crack patterns", International Conference on gSmart functional materials for shaping our futureh, Debrecen, Hungary, 20 September 2014.
  2. A. Nakahara, "Control of desiccation crack patterns using memory effects of paste and Faraday waves", 13th Continuum Models Discrete Systems, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 24 July 2014.
  3. A. Nakahara, "Memory of plastic fluid and its application to control pattern formation of dessication cracks", International Workshop on "Physics of Granular Flows", Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, 26 June 2013.
  4. A. Nakahara, "Memory effect of paste and its visualization as crack pattern", French-Japanese Meeting on "Jamming, Glasses and Phase transitions", Paris, France, 9 December 2011.
  5. A. Nakahara and Y. Matsuo, "Control of crack pattern using memory effect of paste", 12th Continuum Models and Discrete Systems, Kolkata, India, 24 February 2011.
  6. A. Nakahara, H. Nakayama and Y. Matsuo, "Memories of paste visualized as desiccation crack patterns", The International Workshop on "Recent Progress in Physics of Dissipative Particles", Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, 25 November 2010.
  7. A. Nakahara, "Memory of paste visualized as crack pattern", CNRS/JSPS Joint Seminar on "Deformation, Flow and Rupture of Soft Matter", Lyon, France, 6 July 2010.
  8. A. Nakahara, "Memory of clay paste and its application to control crack pattern", 14th International Clay Conference, Castellanneta, Italy, 6 June 2009.

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