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New insights into phase separation in colloidal suspensions are provided via a new dynamical theory based on the Polydisperse Lattice-Gas model. The model gives a simplified description of polydisperse colloids, incorporating a hard-core…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-03 Pablo de Castro , Peter Sollich

A modified three-dimensional mean spherical model with a L-layer film geometry under Neumann-Neumann boundary conditions is considered. Two spherical fields are present in the model: a surface one fixes the mean square value of the spins at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. M. Danchev , J. G. Brankov , M. E. Amin

Motivated by observations of heterogeneous domain structure on the surface of cells, we consider a minimal model to describe the dynamics of phase separation on the surface of a spherical particle. Finite-size effects on the curved particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-13 Matthias C. Bott , Joseph M. Brader

Partial pair-correlation functions of colloidal suspensions with continuous polydispersity can be challenging to characterize from optical microscopy or computer simulation data due to inadequate sampling. As a result, it is common to adopt…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-12 Mark J. Pond , Jeffrey R. Errington , Thomas M. Truskett

In this paper the development of a physically consistent phase-field theory of solidification shrinkage is presented. The coarse-grained hydrodynamic equations are derived directly from the N-body Hamiltonian equations in the framework of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-28 Gyula I. Toth , Wenyue Ma

Using a density functional based interface displacement model we determine the effective interaction potential between two spherical particles which are immersed in a homogeneous fluid such as the vapor phase of a one-component substance or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Bauer , T. Bieker , S. Dietrich

We propose a finite element method for the numerical simulation of electroconvection of thin liquid crystals. The liquid is located in between two concentric circular electrodes which are either assumed to be of infinite height or slim.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Andrea Bonito , Peng Wei

We study thermophysical properties of a Janus fluid with constrained orientations, using analytical techniques and numerical simulations. The Janus character is modeled by means of a Kern-Frenkel potential where each sphere has one…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-08 Miguel Ángel G. Maestre , Riccardo Fantoni , Achille Giacometti , Andrés Santos

The settling of colloidal particles with short-ranged attractions is investigated via highly resolved immersed boundary simulations. At modest volume fractions, we show that inter-colloid attractions lead to clustering that reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-29 Andrew M. Fiore , Gang Wang , James W. Swan

Polymer self-consistent field theory techniques are used to find radial electron densities and total binding energies for isolated atoms. Quantum particles are modelled as Gaussian threads with ring-polymer architecture in a four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Russell B. Thompson

We investigate the structural properties of a simple model for tetrahedral patchy colloids in which the patch width and the patch range can be tuned independently. For wide bond angles, a fully bonded network can be generated by standard…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-21 Ivan Saika-Voivod , Frank Smallenburg , Francesco Sciortino

We study the properties of a quantum particle interacting with a one dimensional structure of equidistant scattering centres. We derive an analytical expression for the dispersion relation and for the Bloch functions in the presence of both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 A. Negretti , R. Gerritsma , Z. Idziaszek , F. Schmidt-Kaler , T. Calarco

We study a three-dimensional plaquette spin model whose low temperature dynamics is glassy, due to localised defects and effective kinetic constraints. While the thermodynamics of this system is smooth at all temperatures, we show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-10 Robert L. Jack , Juan P. Garrahan

The recently developed Perturbed-Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (PC-SAFT) is investigated for a wide range of model parameters including the parameter m representing the chain length and the thermodynamic temperature T and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Yelash , M. Mueller , W. Paul , K. Binder

Recently synthesized colloids and biological systems such as proteins, viruses and monoclonal antibodies are heterogeneously charged, i.e., different regions of their surfaces carry different amount of positive or negative charge. Because…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Daniele Notarmuzi , Emanuela Bianchi

Patch potentials arising from the polycrystalline structure of material samples may contribute significantly to measured signals in Casimir force experiments. Most of these experiments are performed in the sphere-plane geometry, yet, up to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-11 R. O. Behunin , Y. Zeng , D. A. R. Dalvit , S. Reynaud

We analyze fermions after an interaction quantum quench in one spatial dimension and study the growth of the steady state entanglement entropy density under either a spatial mode or particle bipartition. For integrable lattice models, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-15 Adrian Del Maestro , Hatem Barghathi , Bernd Rosenow

The first paper of this series [J. Chem. Phys. 158, 034103 (2023)] demonstrated that excess entropy scaling holds for both fine-grained and corresponding coarse-grained (CG) systems. Despite its universality, a more exact determination of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jaehyeok Jin , Kenneth S. Schweizer , Gregory A. Voth

In this paper, we investigate the existence of a finite number of vortex patches for the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equations with $\alpha \in [1,2)$, focusing on configurations that may rotate uniformly, translate, or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Edison Cuba

We present a multichannel model for elastic interactions, comprised of an arbitrary number of coupled finite square-well potentials, and derive semi-analytic solutions for its scattering behavior. Despite the model's simplicity, it is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Nirav P. Mehta , Kaden R. A. Hazzard , Christopher Ticknor