Publications

Publications at CSULB

• The effect of the kinetoplast edge loop on network percolation. J Ragotksie, N Morrisson, C Stackhouse, RC Blair, AR Klotz. Journal of Polymer Science (2023).
• Ropelength and Writhe Quantization of 12-Crossing Knots. AR Klotz and CJ Anderson. ArXiv Preprint (2023).
• Nanopore translocation of topologically linked DNA catenanes. SN Rheaume, AR Klotz. Physical Review E (2023).
• Droplet Impact of Additives and HTPB. MA Magana, AR Klotz, J Kalman. AIAA Scitech Forum (2023).
• Percolation and dissolution of Borromean networks. DG Ferschweiler, RC Blair, AR Klotz. Physical Review E (2023).
• Exactly Solvable Self-Trapping Lattice Walks. AR Klotz and E Sullivan. ArXiv Preprint (2022).
• The Tightest Knot is Not Necessarily the Smaller. AR Klotz. Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (2022).
• Flatness and intrinsic curvature of linked-ring membranes. JM Polson, EJ Garcia, and AR Klotz. Soft Matter 17, 10505-10515 (2021)
• The Ropelength of Complex Knots. AR Klotz & M Maldonado. Journal of Physics A (2021).
• Neumann, but hold the von. AR Klotz. American Journal of Physics 89 (9) (2021).
• Trapping in self-avoiding walks with nearest-neighbor attraction. W Hooper & AR Klotz. Physical Review E, 102.3 (2020)

Publications Prior to Joining CSULB

• Topological Simplification of Complex Knots Untied in Elongational Flows. Soh BW, Klotz AR, Doyle PS. Macromolecules. 2020 54.17 (2020)
• An experimental investigation of attraction between knots in a stretched DNA molecule. Klotz AR, Soh BW, Doyle PS. Euro Physics Letters, 129.6 (2020)
• Equilibrium Properties and Deformation Response of 2D Kinetoplast Sheets. AR Klotz, BW Soh, PS Doyle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 117.1 (2020)
• Self-entanglement of a tumbled circular chain. BW Soh, I Gengaro, AR Klotz, PS Doyle. Physical Review Research, Volume 1, 033194 (2019)
• Long-Lived Self-Entanglements in Ring Polymers. BW Soh, AR Klotz, RM Robertson-Anderson, PS Doyle. Physical Review Letters 123 (4), 048002
• Conformational State Hopping of Knots in Tensioned Polymer Chains. BW Soh, AR Klotz, L Dai, PS Doyle. ACS Macro Letters 8 (8), 905-911
• Untying of complex knots on stretched polymers in elongational fields. BW Soh, AR Klotz, PS Doyle. Macromolecules 51 (23), 9562-9571
• Motion of knots in DNA stretched by elongational fields. AR Klotz, BW Soh, PS Doyle Physical Review Letters. 120 (18), 188003
• Knots modify the coil–stretch transition in linear DNA polymers. BW Soh, V Narsimhan, AR Klotz, PS. Doyle. Soft Matter 14 (9), 1689-1698
• Steady-state and transient behavior of knotted chains in extensional fields. V Narsimhan, AR Klotz, PS Doyle. ACS Macro Letters 6 (11), 1285-1289
• Nanoconfinement greatly speeds up the nucleation and the annealing in single-DNA collapse. L Dai, JJ Jones, AR Klotz, S Levy, PS Doyle. Soft Matter 13 (37), 6363-6371
• Dynamics of DNA knots during chain relaxation. AR Klotz, V Narsimhan, BW Soh, PS Doyle. Macromolecules 50 (10), 4074-4082
• Waves of DNA: Propagating excitations in extended nanoconfined polymers. AR Klotz, HW de Haan, WW Reisner. Physical Review E 94 (4), 042603
• Measuring the confinement free energy and effective width of single polymer chains via single-molecule tetris. AR Klotz, L Duong, M Mamaev, HW de Haan, JZY Chen, WW Reisner. Macromolecules 48 (14), 5028-5033
• Correlated Fluctuations of DNA between Nanofluidic Entropic Traps. AR Klotz, M Mamaev, L Duong, HW de Haan, WW Reisner. Macromolecules 48 (13), 4742-4747
• Diffusion Resonance of Nanoconfined Polymers. AR Klotz, H Brandao, WW Reisner. Macromolecules. 45 (4), (2012)

Speculative, Popular, and Educational Physics

• Relativistic minimization with constraints: A smooth trip to Alpha Centauri. R Antonelli, AR Klotz. American Journal of Physics 85 (6)
• The Gravity Tunnel in a Non-Uniform Earth. AR Klotz. American Journal of Physics 83 (3)
• Bubble Dynamics in N Dimensions. AR Klotz. Physics of Fluids 25 (8)