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Single-molecule experiments provide new insights into biological processes hitherto not accessible by measurements performed on bulk systems. We report on a study of the kinetics of a triple-branch DNA molecule with four conformational…

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The paper uses mesoscopic, non-linear lattice dynamics based (Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois, PBD) modeling to describe thermal properties of DNA below and near the denaturation temperature. Computationally efficient notation is introduced for the…

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The stability of DNA molecule during the encapsulation process is a topic of intense research. We study the thermal stability of the double-stranded DNA molecule of different lengths in a confined space. Using a statistical model we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-04 Arghya Maity , Navin Singh

Coulomb drag experiments can give us information about the interaction state of double-layer systems. Here, we demonstrate anomalous Coulomb drag behaviours in a two-dimensional electron-electron bilayer system constructed by stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Ning Wang , Siu-Tat Chui

We numerically investigate the dynamics and linear rheology of disordered systems made of patchy particles, focussing on the role of valence, temperature and bonding mechanism. We demonstrate that the dynamics is enslaved to bonding, giving…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-20 Samuel S. Gomez , Lorenzo Rovigatti

We investigate the dynamics of bound states of two interacting particles, either bosons or fermions, performing a continuous-time quantum walk on a one-dimensional lattice. We consider the situation where the distance between both particles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 P. L. Krapivsky , J. M. Luck , K. Mallick

We consider a continuous random walk model for describing normal as well as anomalous diffusion of particles subjected to an external force when these particles diffuse in a uniformly expanding (or contracting) medium. A general equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-17 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

We consider single particle and polymer translocation where the frictional properties experienced from the environment are changing in time. This work is motivated by the interesting frequency responsive behaviour observed when a polymer is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-06 Jack A. Cohen , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Ramin Golestanian

As part of a critical assessment of wall boiling modeling through Heat Flux Partitioning approach, a new model dedicated to vertical boiling flows is proposed, with a revisited partitioning including a boiling heat flux related to bubble…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Luc Favre , Catherine Colin , Stéphane Pujet , Stéphane Mimouni

Heterogeneous nucleation is central to many familiar first-order phase transitions such as the freezing of water and the solidification of metals, and it can also play a crucial role in cosmology. We examine nucleation seeded by preexisting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Yang Bai , Yifu Xu , Yiming Yang

Heterogeneous distribution of passive and active domains in the chromosome plays a crucial role for its dynamic organization within the cell nucleus. Motivated by that here we investigate the steady-state conformation and dynamics of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-27 Suman Majumder , Subhajit Paul

The unified description of diffusion processes that cross over from a ballistic behavior at short times to normal or anomalous diffusion (sub- or superdiffusion) at longer times is constructed on the basis of a non-Markovian generalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-26 Valery Ilyin , Itamar Procaccia , Anatoly Zagorodny

Two spatially separate Bose-Einstein condensates were prepared in an optical double-well potential. A bidirectional coupling between the two condensates was established by two pairs of Bragg beams which continuously outcoupled atoms in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Shin , G. -B. Jo , M. Saba , T. A. Pasquini , W. Ketterle , D. E. Pritchard

We consider the dynamics of bubble growth in the Minimal Standard Model at the electroweak phase transition and determine the shape and the velocity of the phase boundary, or bubble wall. We show that in the semi-classical approximation the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Guy D. Moore , Tomislav Prokopec

Mixtures of glass-forming fluids sometimes exhibit glass-glass phase separation at low temperatures. Here, we use a molecular dynamics simulation to study one of the simplest examples of the glass-glass phase separation. We consider a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-07 Yuri Oku , Kyohei Takae , Atsushi Ikeda

Doubly quantized vortices were topologically imprinted in $|F=1>$ $^{23}$Na condensates, and their time evolution was observed using a tomographic imaging technique. The decay into two singly quantized vortices was characterized and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Shin , M. Saba , M. Vengalattore , T. A. Pasquini , C. Sanner , A. E. Leanhardt , M. Prentiss , D. E. Pritchard , W. Ketterle

A discrete time quantum walk is considered in which the step lengths are chosen to be either $1$ or $2$ with the additional feature that the walker is persistent with a probability $p$. This implies that with probability $p$, the walker…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Suchetana Mukhopadhyay , Parongama Sen

Quantum walk research has mainly focused on evolutions due to repeated applications of time-independent unitary coin operators. However, the idea of controlling the single particle evolution using time-dependent unitary coins has still been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Shrabanti Dhar , Abdul Khaleque , Tushar Kanti Bose

Bubble coalescence can promote bubble departure at much smaller sizes compared to buoyancy. This can critically enhance the efficiency of gas-evolving electrochemical processes, such as water electrolysis. In this study, we integrate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Çayan Demirkır , Rui Yang , Aleksandr Bashkatov , Vatsal Sanjay , Detlef Lohse , Dominik Krug

First order phase transitions could play a major role in the early universe, providing important phenomenological consequences, such as the production of gravitational waves and the generation of baryon asymmetry. An important aspect that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose , Andrea Guiggiani , Ángel Gil Muyor , Giuliano Panico