About the Authors

Assieh Saadatpour

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rui-Sheng Wang

Affiliation Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Aijun Liao

Affiliation Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xin Liu

Affiliation Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Thomas P. Loughran

Affiliation Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

István Albert

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Réka Albert

ralbert@phys.psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RA AS RSW XL TPL. Performed the experiments: AS RSW AL. Analyzed the data: AS RSW XL TPL RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS RSW IA. Wrote the paper: AS RA.