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The behavior of particles driven through a narrow constriction is investigated in experiment and simulation. The system of particles adapts to the confining potentials and the interaction energies by a self-consistent arrangement of the…

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From footpaths to flight routes, human mobility networks facilitate the spread of communicable diseases. Control and elimination efforts depend on characterizing these networks in terms of connections and flux rates of individuals between…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-29 Kyle B Gustafson , Basil S. Bayati , Philip A. Eckhoff

We study the dynamics of a tracer particle (TP) on a comb lattice populated by randomly moving hard-core particles in the dense limit. We first consider the case where the TP is constrained to move on the backbone of the comb only, and, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-02 O. Bénichou , P. Illien , G. Oshanin , A. Sarracino , R. Voituriez

Heavy and light particles are commonly found in many natural phenomena and industrial processes, such as suspensions of bubbles, dust, and droplets in incompressible turbulent flows. Based on a recent machine learning approach using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-10 Tianyi Li , Samuele Tommasi , Michele Buzzicotti , Fabio Bonaccorso , Luca Biferale

Active matter systems are able to exhibit emergent non-equilibrium states due to activity-induced effective interactions between the active particles. Here we study the aggregation and dynamical behavior of active rotating particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-25 Juan L. Aragones , Joshua P. Steimel , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Conventional approaches for simulating steady-state distributions of particles under diffusive and advective transport at high P\'eclet numbers involve solving the diffusion and advection equations in at least two dimensions. Here, we…

Studying particle-laden flows is essential to understand diverse physical processes such as rain formation in clouds, pathogen transmission, and pollutant dispersal. Distinct clustering patterns are formed in such flows with particles of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-13 K Shri Vignesh , Shruti Tandon , Praveen Kasthuri , R. I. Sujith

We numerically study the dynamics of cold atoms in a two-dimensional disordered potential. We consider an anisotropic speckle potential and focus on the classical regime, which is relevant to some recent experiments. First, we study the…

To explore the coupling between a growing population of microorganisms such as E. coli and a nonuniform nutrient distribution, we formulate a minimalistic model. It consists of active Brownian particles that divide and grow at a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Till Welker , Holger Stark

We investigate the self-organization of point-particles with short-range interactions modeled via simple 1D and 2D Hubbard-like models. We show how various properties emerge such as, boson-like ordering leading to topological structures in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-08 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

The transport of particles in cells is influenced by the properties of intracellular networks they traverse while searching for localized target regions or reaction partners. Moreover, given the rapid turnover in many intracellular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Lachlan Elam , Mónica C. Quiñones-Frías , Ying Zhang , Avital A. Rodal , Thomas G. Fai

In the present paper we examine the relationship between several type $A$ cluster theories and structures. We define a 2D geometric model of a cluster theory, which generalizes cluster algebras from surfaces, and encode several existing…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Job Daisie Rock

The charge on an aggregate immersed in a plasma environment distributes itself over the aggregate's surface; this can be approximated theoretically by assuming a multipole distribution. The dipole-dipole (or higher order) charge…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lorin S. Matthews , Victor Land , Qianyu Ma , Jonathan D. Perry , Truell W. Hyde

By virtue of their high galaxy space densities and their large spatial separations, clusters are efficient and accurate tracers of the large-scale density and velocity fields. Substantial progress has been made over the past decade in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Postman

Clustering large datasets is a fundamental problem with a number of applications in machine learning. Data is often collected on different sites and clustering needs to be performed in a distributed manner with low communication. We would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jiecao Chen , He Sun , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

Soft-granular media, such as dense emulsions, foams or tissues, exhibit either fluid- or solid-like properties depending on the applied external stresses. Whereas bulk rheology of such materials has been thoroughly investigated, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-04 Michal Bogdan , Jesus Pineda , Mihir Durve , Leon Jurkiewicz , Sauro Succi , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Guzowski

Congestion and extreme events in transportation networks are emergent phenomena with significant socio-economic implications. In this work, we study congestion and extreme event properties on real urban street (planar) networks drawn from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Ajay Agarwal , M. S. Santhanam

We study the transport properties of passive inertial particles in a $2-d$ incompressible flows. Here the particle dynamics is represented by the $4-d$ dissipative embedding map of $2-d$ area-preserving standard map which models the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-23 N. Nirmal Thyagu , Neelima Gupte

Real world complex networks often exhibit multiplex structure, connecting entities from different aspects of physical systems such as social, transportation and biological networks. Little is known about general properties of such networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Blaž Škrlj , Benjamin Renoust

This work focuses on buoyant tracers floating on the ocean surface and treats the geostrophic and ageostrophic surface velocities as the 2D solenoidal (non-divergent) and potential (divergent) flow components, respectively. We consider a…