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We study periodic lattices, such as vortex lattices, driven by an external force in a random pinning potential. We show that effects of static disorder persist even at large velocity. It results in a novel moving glass state with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Thierry Giamarchi , Pierre Le Doussal

In this paper, the looping kinetics of a long polymer chain in solution has been investigated by using two state model, where one state represents open chain polymer molecule and the other represents closed chain polymer molecule. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-24 Moumita Ganguly , Aniruddha Chakraborty

Polymers with active segments constitute prospective future materials and are used as a model for some biological systems such as chromatin. The directions of the active forces are typically introduced with temporal or spatial correlations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-25 Adam H. T. P. Höfler , Iurii Chubak , Christos N. Likos , Jan Smrek

By quantitative studies of statistics of polymer stretching in a random flow and of a flow field we demonstrate that the stretching of polymer molecules in a 3D random flow occurs rather sharply via the coil-stretch transition at the value…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Gerashchenko , C. Chevallard , V. Steinberg

We study the dynamics of a polymer when it is quenched from a $\theta$ solvent into a good or bad solvent by means of a Langevin equation. The variation of the radius of gyration is studied as a function of time. For the first stage of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 E. Pitard , H. Orland

When a flexible polymer is sucked into a localized small hole, the chain can initially respond only locally and the sequential nonequilibrium processes follow in line with the propagation of the tensile force along the chain backbone. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Takahiro Sakaue

We investigate the mechanical properties of amorphous polymers by means of coarse-grained simulations and nonaffine lattice dynamics theory. A small increase of polymer chain bending stiffness leads first to softening of the material, while…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-14 Christopher Ness , Vladimir V. Palyulin , Rico Milkus , Robert Elder , Timothy Sirk , Alessio Zaccone

The steady sliding state of periodic structures such as charge density waves and flux line lattices is numerically studied based on two and three dimensional driven random field XY models. We focus on the dynamical phase transition between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomoaki Nogawa , Hajime Yoshino , Hiroshi Matsukawa

The some dynamic properties of a random heteropolymer in the condensed state are studied in the mode coupling approximation. In agreement with recent report a dynamic friction increasing is predicted for the random heteropolymer with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Sh. Mamasakhlisov , V. F. Morozov

We investigate a reversible polymerization process in which individual polymers aggregate and fragment at a rate proportional to their molecular weight. We find a nonequilibrium phase transition despite the fact that the dynamics are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-24 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We consider the passage of long polymers of length N through a hole in a membrane. If the process is slow, it is in principle possible to focus on the dynamics of the number of monomers s on one side of the membrane, assuming that the two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

Adding plasticizers is a well-known procedure to reduce the glass transition temperature in polymers. It has been recently shown that this effect shows a non-monotonic dependence on the size of additive molecules [The Journal of Chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-24 Elias M. Zirdehi , Thomas Voigtmann , Fathollah Varnik

The tumbling dynamics of individual polymers in semidilute solution is studied by large-scale non-equilibrium mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations. We find that the tumbling time is equal to the non-equilibrium relaxation time of the polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-21 C. -C. Huang , G. Sutmann , G. Gompper , R. G. Winkler

We report molecular dynamics simulations of a system of repulsive, polymer-tethered colloidal particles. We use an explicit polymer model to explore how the length and the behavior of the polymer (ideal or self-avoiding) affect the ability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Behnaz Bozorgui , Maya Sen , William L. Miller , Josep C. Pamies , Angelo Cacciuto

A lattice model is presented for the simulation of dynamics in polymeric systems. Each polymer is represented as a chain of monomers, residing on a sequence of nearest-neighbor sites of a face-centered-cubic lattice. The polymers are self-…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander van Heukelum , G. T. Barkema

We study the motion of long polymers (eg DNA) in a gel under the influence of an external force acting locally on small segments of the polymer. In particular, we examine the dependence of the drift velocity on the position where the force…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 M. J. E. Richardson , G. M. Schütz

We study the long-time behaviour of a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, which models the evolution of rigid polymers in a given flow, after a closure approximation. The aim of this work is twofold: first, we propose a microscopic derivation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-20 Lingbing He , Claude Le Bris , Tony Lelièvre

We rigorously study the long time dynamics of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in {\it time-dependent} external potentials. To set the stage, we first establish the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Walid K. Abou Salem

The classical dynamics of a particle that is driven by a rapidly oscillating potential (with frequency $\omega$) is studied. The motion is separated into a slow part and a fast part that oscillates around the slow part. The motion of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saar Rahav , Eli Geva , Shmuel Fishman

We develop a dynamical approach to infinite volume directed polymer measures in random environments. We define polymer dynamics in 1+1 dimension as a stochastic gradient flow on polymers pinned at the origin, for energy involving quadratic…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Yuri Bakhtin , Hong-Bin Chen