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In an earlier preprint (V. V. Ginzburg, O. V. Gendelman, R. Casalini, and A. Zaccone, arxiv:2409.17291), we demonstrated that the dynamic (relaxation time) and volume equations of state for many amorphous polymers are near-universal -- each…

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We investigate by Monte Carlo simulations the zipping and unzipping dynamics of two polymers connected by one end and subject to an attractive interaction between complementary monomers. In zipping, the polymers are quenched from a high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-15 Alessandro Ferrantini , Enrico Carlon

We study the temperature dependence of static and dynamic responses of Coulomb interacting particles in two-dimensional traps across the thermal crossover from an amorphous solid- to liquid-like behaviors. While static correlations, that…

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We present the results of a large scale molecular dynamics computer simulation of a binary, supercooled Lennard-Jones fluid. At low temperatures and intermediate times the time dependence of the intermediate scattering function is well…

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We present results for the aging dynamics of a jammed 2D colloidal system obtained with molecular dynamics simulations. We performed extensive simulations to gather detailed statistics about rare rearrangement events. With a simple…

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Thin films of colloidal semiconductor CdSe quantum-dots (QDs) and a styrene/maleic anhydride copolymer were prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique and their photoluminescence was characterized by confocal fluorescence lifetime…

The topological three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 has drawn great attention for the novel physics and promising applications in optoelectronic devices operating in the infrared and THz regimes. Among the extensive studies in the past…

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We present results of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for a non-entangled polymer melt confined between two completely smooth and repulsive walls, interacting with inner particles via the potential $U_{\rm wall}\myeq (\sigma/z)^9$,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Varnik , J. Baschnagel , K. Binder

We study Coulomb drag between an active layer with a clean electron liquid and a passive layer with a pinned electron lattice in the regime of fast intralayer equilibration. Such a two-fluid system offers an experimentally realizable way to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-17 Tobias Holder

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of photoinduced phase transitions in charge ordered (CO) systems with a strong electron-lattice interaction and analyze the interplay between electrons, periodic lattice distortions, and a phonon thermal…

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We study the mechanical response under time-dependent sources of a simple class of holographic models that exhibit viscoelastic features. The ratio of viscosity over elastic modulus defines an intrinsic relaxation time scale -- the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Tomas Andrade , Matteo Baggioli , Oriol Pujolas

Surface tension-driven flow techniques have recently emerged as an efficient means of shedding light into the rheology of thin polymer films. Motivated by experimental and theoretical approaches in films bearing a varying surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Ioannis Tanis , Hendrik Meyer , Thomas Salez , Elie Raphaël , Anthony C. Maggs , Jörg Baschnagel

We use X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy to investigate the structural relaxation process in a metallic glass on the atomic length scale. We report evidence for a dynamical crossover between the supercooled liquid phase and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 B. Ruta , Y. Chushkin , G. Monaco , L. Cipelletti , E. Pineda , P. Bruna , V. M. Giordano , M. Gonzalez-Silveira

We report on the crossover from the thermal to athermal regime of an artificial spin ice formed from a square array of magnetic islands whose lateral size, 30~nm~$\times$~70~nm, is small enough that they are superparamagnetic at room…

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We study the slow dynamics of salol by varying both temperature and pressure using photon correlation spectroscopy and pressure-volume-temperature measurements, and compare the behavior of the structural relaxation time with equations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-25 L. Comez , S. Corezzi , D. Fioretto , H. Kriegs , A. Best , W. Steffen

This paper employs the general time-space fractional diffusion equation to derive correlation time function for analyzing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation. Both the anomalous rotational and translational diffusion are treated.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Guoxing Lin

The primary and secondary relaxation timescales of aging colloidal suspensions of Laponite are estimated from intensity autocorrelation functions obtained in dynamic light scattering (DLS) experiments. The dynamical slowing down of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-05 Debasish Saha , Yogesh M. Joshi , Ranjini Bandyopadhyay

Microscopic relaxation timescales are estimated from the autocorrelation functions obtained by dynamic light scattering experiments for Laponite suspensions with different concentrations ($C_{L}$), added salt concentrations ($C_{S}$) and…

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