Reversibility, Chaos, and Attractors in Periodically Sheared Elastic Filaments

Author(s): Francesco Bonacci, Brato Chakrabarti, Olivia du Roure, Anke Lindner, and David SaintillanCombining experiments on actin filaments with numerical simulations, a previously unknown transition from reversible motion to intermittent, noise-driven chaos in single semiflexible filaments under periodic shear is unveiled.[Phys. Rev. X 16, 031067] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026