Second Law-abiding account of heat engines in active baths
Yi-Hung Liao, Jerard Vincent Ang, Pik-Yin Lai and Yonggun Jun
In preparation
Length Heterogeneity Drives Efficient Swarming in Bacteria
Yen Chiu, Jui-Lin Hsu, Chien-Jung Lo and Yonggun Jun
Under Revision
Second-Law violating events are not rare in Non-equilibrium non-steady states
Yi-Hung Liao, Yonggun Jun, and Pik-Yin Lai
Phys. Rev. E 111, L022103 [Link]
Multiple kinesins speed up cargo transport in crowded environments by sharing load
Ya-Ting Huang, Michio Tomishige, Steven Gross, Pik-Yin Lai*, and Yonggun Jun**
Communications Biology, 8, 232 (2025) [Link]
Gambling demon and stopping-time fluctuation relation of a Brownian particle under a time-dependent trapping potential
John A. C. Albay, Yonggun Jun*, and Pik-Yin Lai**
Phys. Rev. E, 109, 014124 [Link]
Stochastic heat engines beyond a unique definition of temperature
Chia-Hao Chang, Chia-Jung Chang, Nian-Jhu Wu, Yonggun Jun*, and Cheng-Hung Chang**
Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043085 [Link]
A Colloidal Heat Engine driven by Engineered Active Noise
John A. C. Albay, Zhi-Yi Zhou, Chia-Hao Chang, Hsuan-Yi Chen, Jae Sung Lee, Cheng-Hung Chang, and Yonggun Jun*
Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033208 [Link]
Winning strategies of a gambling demon in a Brownian particle under a squeezing potential
John A. C. Albay, Yonggun Jun*, and Pik-Yin Lai**
Phys. Rev. Research 5, 023115 [Link]
Stochastic currents and efficiency in an autonomous linear heat engine
Wenqi Lin, Yi-Hung Liao, Pik-Yin Lai*, and Yonggun Jun**
Phys. Rev. E 106, L022106 [Link]
Minimal dissipation protocols of an Instantaneous equilibrium Brownian particle under time-dependent temperature and potential variations
Yonggun Jun* and Pik-Yin Lai**
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 023157 (2022) [Link]
2021
Instantaneous equilibrium Transport for Brownian systems under time-dependent temperature and potential variations: Reversibility, Heat and work relations, and Fast Isentropic process
Yonggun Jun and Pik-Yin Lai
Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033130 (2021) [Link]
Generation of virtual potentials by controlled feedback in electric circuit systems
Hsin Chang, Kuan-Hsun Chiang, Yonggun Jun, Pik-Yin Lai, and Yung-Fu Chen
Physical Review E 103, 042138 (2021) [Link]
Shift a laser beam back and forth to exchange heat and work in thermodynamics
John A. C. Albay, Zhi-Yi Zhou, Cheng-Hung Chang*, and Yonggun Jun**
Scientific Reports 11, 4394 (2021) [Link]
2020
Work relation in instantaneous-equilibrium transition of forward and reverse processes
John A. C. Albay, Chulan Kwon, Pik-Yin Lai, and Yonggun Jun
New J. Phys. 22, 123049 (2020) [link]
Realization of finite-rate isothermal compression and expansion using optical feedback trap
John A. C. Albay, Pik-Yin Lai, and Yonggun Jun
Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 103706 (2020) [link]
Editor's Pick
2019
Thermodynamic cost of a shortcuts-to-isothermal transport of a Brownian particle
John A. C. Albay, Sarah R. Wulaningrum, Chulan Kwon, Pik-Yin Lai, and Yonggun Jun
Phys. Rev. Research, 1, 033122 (2019) [link]
2018
Optical tweezers as a mathematically driven spatio-temporal potential generator
John A.C. Albay, Govind Paneru, Hyuk Kyu Pak, and Yonggun Jun
Optics Express, 26, 29906 (2018) [link]
2017
Polymer concentration and properties of elastic turbulence in a von Karman swirling flow
Yonggun Jun and Victor Steinberg
Physical Review Fluid, 2, 103301 (2017) [link]
Invariance of initiation mass and predictability of cell size in Escherichia coli
Fangwei Si, Dongyang Li, Sarah E. Cox, John T. Sauls, Omid Azizi, Cindy Sou, Amy B. Schwartz, Michael J. Erickstad, Yonggun Jun, Xintian Li and Suckjoon Jun [link]
Current Biology, 27, 1-10 (2017)
2016
tCRISPRi: tunable and reversible, one-step control of gene expression
Xin-tian Li, Yonggun Jun, Michael J. Erickstad, Steven D. Brown, Adam Parks, Donald L. Court and Suckjoon Jun
Scientific Report, 6, 39076 (2016) [link]
Distinctions between Dynamic Characteristics of the Single EG5 Motor Protein along Neural vs. Cancerous Microtubules.
Mitra Shojania Feizabadi, Yonggun Jun, and Babu J N Reddy
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 478, 1630 (2016) [link]
2015
The structural kinetics of switch-1 and the neck linker explain the functions of kinesin-1 and Eg5.
Muretta, J.M., Y. Jun, S.P. Gross, J. Major, D.D. Thomas, et al.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 112, E6606 (2015) [link]
Microtubule C-terminal tails can change characteristics of motor force production
Mitra Shojania Feizabadi, Babu Reddy J N, Yonggun Jun, Steven Rosenfeld and Steven P. Gross,
Traffic, 16, 1075(2015) [link]
2014
Kinesin-1 Translocation: surprising differences between bovine brain and MCF7-derived Microtubules
Mitra Shojania Feizabadi and Yonggun Jun,
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 454, 543-546(2014)
High-precision test of Landauer's principle in a feedback trap
Yonggun Jun, Momcilo Gavrilov, and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 190601 (2014) (PRL Editors' Suggestion)
Real-time calibration of a feedback trap.
Momcilo Gavrilov, Yonggun Jun, and John Bechhoefer.
Rev. Sci. Intrum., 85, 095102 (2014)
Calibration of Optical tweezers for In vivo force measurements: how do different approaches compare?
Yonggun Jun, S. K. Tripathy, B. R. J. Narayanareddy, M. K. Mattson-Hoss and S. P. Gross
Biophys. J, 107, 1474-1484 (2014)
CK2 activates kinesin via induction of a conformational change.
Mattson-Hoss, M.K., Y. Niitani, E. a Gordon, Y. Jun, L. Bardwell, et al.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 111: 7000-5 (2014).
Comprehensive structural model of the mechanochemical cycle of a mitotic motor highlights molecular adaptations in the kinesin family.
Goulet, A., J. Major, Y. Jun, S.P. Gross, S.S. Rosenfeld, et al.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 111: 1837-1842. (2014)
2013
Differential protein partitioning within the herpesvirus tegument and envelope underlies a complex and variable virion architecture.
Bohannon, K.P., Y. Jun, S.P. Gross, and G.A. Smith.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 110: E1613-20. (2013)
Particle dynamics in a virtual harmonic potential.
Gavrilov, M., Y. Jun, and J. Bechhoefer.
In: Dholakia K, GC Spalding, editors.Proc. SPIE 8810, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation X. . pp. 881012-881012-11.(2013)
2012
Virtual potentials for feedback traps.
Jun, Y., and J. Bechhoefer.
Phys. Rev. E. 86: 061106. (2012)
~ 2011
Elastic turbulence in a curvilinear channel flow.
Jun, Y., and V. Steinberg.
Phys. Rev. E. 84: 056325. (2011)
Mixing of passive tracers in the decay Batchelor regime of a channel flow.
Jun, Y., and V. Steinberg.
Phys. Fluids. 22: 123101. (2010)
Power and Pressure Fluctuations in Elastic Turbulence over a Wide Range of Polymer Concentrations.
Jun, Y., and V. Steinberg.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102: 124503. (2009)
Concentration dependence of the longest relaxation times of dilute and semi-dilute polymer solutions.
Liu, Y., Y. Jun, and V. Steinberg.
J. Rheol. 53: 1069. (2009)
Longest Relaxation Times of Double-Stranded and Single-Stranded DNA.
Liu, Y., Y. Jun, and V. Steinberg.
Macromolecules.40: 2172-2176. (2007)
Single-Point Velocity Statistics of Forced and Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence.
Jun, Y., X.L. Wu, and J. Zhang.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96: 164502. (2006)
Polymer Effects on Small- and Large-Scale Two-Dimensional Turbulence.
Jun, Y., J. Zhang, and X. Wu.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96: 024502. (2006)
Large-scale intermittency in two-dimensional driven turbulence.
Jun, Y., and X.L. Wu.
Phys. Rev. E. 72: 035302(R). (2005)
Dynamics of spiral patterns in vertically vibrated thin granular layer system.
Jun, Y., K. Kim, and H.K. Pak.
Physica A. 281: 93-98. (2000)
Transient spiral and target patterns in vertically oscillated thin granular layers.
Jun, Y., K. Kim, and H. Pak.
In: AIP Conference Proceedings. . pp. 43-52. (2000)