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<p>Spatial confinement can induce geometrical frustration in condensed phases, giving rise to topological defects that confer materials with new and exotic properties. Here, we experimentally uncover the effect of confinement-induced defect strings termed ‘grain boundary scars’ on the behavior of dense two-dimensional assemblies of granular spinners, a canonical odd elastic solid. The spatial arrangement of these scars fundamentally reshapes the flows triggered by chiral activity. Specifically, they cause the topologically protected edge flows - a ubiquitous feature of confined spinner assemblies - to decouple from the bulk. Strikingly, increasing the net chiral activity of the system by tuning the ratio of counterclockwise to clockwise spinners caused spontaneous self-shearing. The resulting odd radial stresses led to a chiral activity-mediated reentrant melting transition at a fixed areal spinner density. Our findings open new avenues for exploiting geometrical frustration to elicit novel responses from odd elastic solids.</p>

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Reentrant melting of scarred odd crystals by self-shear

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    2026年1月16日

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  • Uttam Tiwari,
  • Pragya Arora,
  • A. K. Sood,
  • Sriram Ramaswamy,
  • Rituparno Mandal,
  • Rajesh Ganapathy

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Spatial confinement can induce geometrical frustration in condensed phases, giving rise to topological defects that confer materials with new and exotic properties. Here, we experimentally uncover the effect of confinement-induced defect strings termed ‘grain boundary scars’ on the behavior of dense two-dimensional assemblies of granular spinners, a canonical odd elastic solid. The spatial arrangement of these scars fundamentally reshapes the flows triggered by chiral activity. Specifically, they cause the topologically protected edge flows - a ubiquitous feature of confined spinner assemblies - to decouple from the bulk. Strikingly, increasing the net chiral activity of the system by tuning the ratio of counterclockwise to clockwise spinners caused spontaneous self-shearing. The resulting odd radial stresses led to a chiral activity-mediated reentrant melting transition at a fixed areal spinner density. Our findings open new avenues for exploiting geometrical frustration to elicit novel responses from odd elastic solids.