About the Authors

Nele Vandersickel

nele.vandersickel@ugent.be

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Ivan V. Kazbanov

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Anita Nuitermans

Affiliation Department of Theoretical Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Louis D. Weise

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Theoretical Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Rahul Pandit

Affiliation Center for Condensed Matter Theory - Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Alexander V. Panfilov

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NV IVK AVP. Performed the experiments: NV. Analyzed the data: NV IVK RP AVP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NV IVK AN LDW AVP. Wrote the paper: NV LDW RP AVP.