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Stephen Thornton serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at Cornell University, where he conducts theoretical research on phase transitions in disordered materials. His work is centered within James Sethna's research group, focusing on critical phenomena in complex physical systems.
Thornton's primary research spans Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Mechanics, with specialization in rigidity transitions, jamming phenomena, and strange metal behavior. He employs scaling analysis and renormalization group theory to investigate universal critical behavior in disordered elastic networks and viscoelastic matter, particularly examining multi-step transitions in anisotropic systems and connections between mechanical and electronic jamming.
Analysis of his 13 publications (2021-2025) reveals consistent exploration of universal scaling near rigidity onset, with emphasis on dynamical susceptibility, spatio-temporal properties, and crossover behavior. His work demonstrates rigorous theoretical approaches to extract scaling functions from effective medium theories and apply them to both mechanical metamaterials and electronic systems.
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Thornton is an active member of James Sethna's theoretical physics research group at Cornell University, which specializes in statistical mechanics, materials theory, and computational physics of complex systems.
