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In biological system like cell the macromolecules which are anisotropic particles diffuse in a crowded medium. In the present work we have studied the diffusion of spheroidal particles diffusing between cylindrical obstacles by varying the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-02 Vikki Anand Varma , Sujin B Babu

We investigate stresses and particle motion during the start up of flow in a colloidal dispersion close to arrest into a glassy state. A combination of molecular dynamics simulation, mode coupling theory and confocal microscopy experiment…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Zausch , J. Horbach , M Laurati , S. U. Egelhaaf , J. M. Brader , Th. Voigtmann , M. Fuchs

A two-dimensional bidisperse granular fluid is shown to exhibit pronounced long-ranged dynamical heterogeneities as dynamical arrest is approached. Here we focus on the most direct approach to study these heterogeneities: we identify…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-27 Karina E. Avila , Horacio E. Castillo , Katharina Vollmayr-Lee , Annette Zippelius

We perform molecular dynamics simulations using the extended simple point charge SPC/E water model in order to investigate the dynamical behavior of supercooled-stretched water. We focus on the behavior of the translational diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. A. Netz , F. Starr , M. C. Barbosa , H. Eugene Stanley

Recently, some eccentricity-invariant properties of random, isotropic, two-dimensional (2D) systems of conductive ellipses have been reported [Phys. Rev. B \bf{104}, 184205 (2021)]. Moreover, the authors suggested that this invariance might…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-17 Yuri Yu. Tarasevich , Andrei V. Eserkepov

Concentrated colloidal suspensions are a well-tested model system which has a glass transition. Colloids are suspensions of small solid particles in a liquid, and exhibit glassy behavior when the particle concentration is high; the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-01 Luca Cipelletti , Eric R. Weeks

We study colloidal particle dynamics of a model glass system using confocal and fluorescence microscopy as the sample evolves from a hard-sphere glass to a liquid with attractive interparticle interactions. The transition from hard-sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrzej Latka , Yilong Han , Ahmed M. Alsayed , Andrew B. Schofield , A. G. Yodh , Piotr Habdas

We present a study on the dynamics of a system consisting of a pair of hardcore particles diffusing with different rates. We solved the drift-diffusion equation for this model in the case when one particle, labeled F, drifts and diffuses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-14 S. L. Narasimhan , A. Baumgaertner

The relation between dynamics and structure in systems of Brownian bidisperse 2D hard disks with arrested dynamics is examined using numerical simulations. Surprisingly, the suspensions show dynamic arrest at an area fraction of {\phi}…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-05 Joost de Graaf

We present a mode-coupling theory for the dynamics of a tagged particle in a driven granular fluid close to the glass transition. The mean-squared displacement is shown to exhibit a plateau indicating structural arrest. In contrast to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-20 Matthias Sperl , Wolf Till Kranz , Annette Zippelius

We study a kinetically constrained lattice glass model in which continuous local densities are randomly redistributed on neighbouring sites with a kinetic constraint that inhibits the process at high densities, and a random bias accounting…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Bertin , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Francois Lequeux

In a dilute non-Brownian suspension undergoing simple shear, pairwise hydrodynamic interactions are fore-aft symmetric at zero Reynolds number and produce no net cross-streamline displacement. A weak central repulsive force between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Anu V S Nath , Pijush Patra , Anubhab Roy

We report a detailed experimental study of the structure and dynamics of glassy states in hard spheres with short-range attraction. The system is a suspension of nearly-hard-sphere colloidal particles and non-adsorbing linear polymer which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 K. N. Pham , S. U. Egelhaaf , P. N. Pusey , W. C. K. Poon

Dense assemblies of self-propelled particles undergo a nonequilibrium form of glassy dynamics. Physical intuition suggests that increasing departure from equilibrium due to active forces fluidifies a glassy system. We falsify this belief by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-08 Ludovic Berthier , Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel

We study the orientational dynamics of infinitely thin hard rods of length L, with the centers-of-mass fixed on a simple cubic lattice with lattice constant a.We approximate the influence of the surrounding rods onto dynamics of a pair of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Rolf Schilling , Grzegorz Szamel

The glass transition of a hard sphere system is investigated within the framework of the density functional theory (DFT). Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to study dynamical behavior of the system on the one hand and to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kang Kim , Toyonori Munakata

The identification of cells and particles based on their transport properties in microfluidic devices is crucial for numerous applications in biology and medicine. Neutrally buoyant particles transported in microfluidic channels, migrate…

The autocorrelation function of pattern fluctuation is used to study soft-mode turbulence (SMT), a spatiotemporal chaos observed in homeotropic nematics. We show that relaxation near the electroconvection threshold deviates from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-27 Fahrudin Nugroho , Takayuki Narumi , Yoshiki Hidaka , Junichi Yoshitani , Masaru Suzuki , Shoichi Kai

We present results from microscopic mode coupling theory generalized to colloidal dispersions under shear in an integration-through-transients formalism. Stress-strain curves in start-up shear, flow curves, and normal stresses are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Christian P. Amann , Matthias Fuchs

The slow dynamics for a colloidal suspension of particles interacting with a hard-core repulsion complemented by a short-ranged attraction is discussed within the frame of mode-coupling theory for ideal glass transitions for parameter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Sperl