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In order to inquire the microscopic origin of observed multiple time scales in solvation dynamics we carry out several computer experiments. We perform atomistic molecular dynamics simulations on three protein-water systems namely,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-18 Sayantan Mondal , Saumyak Mukherjee , Biman Bagchi

For more than three decades, measurement of terrace width distributions (TWDs) of vicinal crystal surfaces have been recognized as arguably the best way to determine the dimensionless strength $\tilde{A}$ of the elastic repulsion between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 T. L. Einstein , Howard L. Richards , Saul D. Cohen , O. Pierre-Louis

We show that the phase space of stratified turbulence mainly consists of two slow invariant manifolds with rich physics, embedded on a larger basin with fast evolution. A local invariant manifold in the vicinity of the fluid at equilibrium…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-09 Nicolas E. Sujovolsky , Pablo D. Mininni

We show that accelerated gradient descent, averaged gradient descent and the heavy-ball method for non-strongly-convex problems may be reformulated as constant parameter second-order difference equation algorithms, where stability of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-08 Nicolas Flammarion , Francis Bach

We consider perimeter perturbations of a class of attractive-repulsive energies, given by the sum of two nonlocal interactions with power-law kernels, defined over sets with fixed measure. We prove that there exists curves in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Marco Bonacini , Ihsan Topaloglu

Bunching and meandering instability of steps at the 4H-SiC(0001) surface is studied by the kinetic Monte Carlo simulation method. Change in the character of step instability is analyzed for different rates of particle jumps towards step. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Filip Krzyzewski , Magdalena A. Zaluska-Kotur

We introduce a model of self-repelling random walks where the short-range interaction between two elements of the chain decreases as a power of the difference in proper time. Analytic results on the exponent $\nu$ are obtained. They are in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Caracciolo , G. Parisi , A. Pelissetto

Analytic scaling relations are derived for a phenomenological model of the plasmoid instability in an evolving current sheet, including the effects of reconnection outflow. Two scenarios are considered, where the plasmoid instability can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Yi-Min Huang , Luca Comisso , Amitava Bhattacharjee

We use numerical simulations to study the phase behavior of a system of purely repulsive soft dumbbells as a function of size ratio of the two components and their relative degree of deformability. We find a plethora of different phases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-16 Andela Šarić , Behnaz Bozorgui , Angelo Cacciuto

The aim of this paper is to propose a 2D computational algorithm for modeling of the trigger and the propagation of shallow landslides caused by rainfall. We used a Molecular Dynamics (MD) inspired model, similar to discrete element method…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gianluca Martelloni , Franco Bagnoli , Emanuele Massaro

We study the step bunching kinetic instability in a growing crystal surface characterized by anisotropic diffusion. The instability is due to the interplay between the elastic interactions and the alternation of step parameters. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Frisch , A. Verga

Dimension reduction is a common strategy to study non-linear dynamical systems composed by a large number of variables. The goal is to find a smaller version of the system whose time evolution is easier to predict while preserving some of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Marina Vegué , Vincent Thibeault , Patrick Desrosiers , Antoine Allard

The (1+1)-dimensional kinetic model of crystal growth with simulated self-attraction and random sequential or parallel dynamics is introduced and studied via Monte-Carlo simulations. To imitate the attraction of absorbing atoms the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-27 P. N. Timonin

In this letter, we characterize experimentally the diffusiophoretic motion of colloids and lambda- DNA toward higher concentration of solutes, using microfluidic technology to build spatially- and temporally-controlled concentration…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-09 J. Palacci , B. Abecassis , C. Cottin-Bizonne , C. Ybert , L. Bocquet

Complex or hostile environments can sometimes inhibit the movement capabilities of diffusive particles or active swimmers, who may thus become stuck in fixed positions. This occurs, for example, in the adhesion of bacteria to surfaces at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-12 Luca Angelani

Three-dimensional, time-dependent direct simulations of step emulsification micro-devices highlight two essential mechanisms for droplet formation: first, the onset of an adverse pressure gradient driving a back-flow of the continuous phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Sauro Succi , Elad Stolovicki , David A. Weitz

Hydrodynamic systems arising in swarming modelling include nonlocal forces in the form of attractive-repulsive potentials as well as pressure terms modelling strong local repulsion. We focus on the case where there is a balance between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-12 José A. Carrillo , Aneta Wróblewska-Kamińska , Ewelina Zatorska

We investigate the collective dynamics of self-propelled droplets, confined in a one dimensional micro-fluidic channel. On one hand, neighboring droplets align and form large trains of droplets moving in the same direction. On the other…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 Pierre Illien , Charlotte de Blois , Yang Liu , Marjolein N. van der Linden , Olivier Dauchot

We consider one-dimensional asymmetric exclusion processes with a simple attractive interaction, where the distance between consecutive particles is not allowed to exceed a certain limit and investigate the consequences of this coupling on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Róbert Juhász

This paper presents a novel modeling approach for unsteady aircraft airflow, leveraging the Lorenz attractor framework. The proposed model is based on the force distribution exerted by a lift-generating wing on the surrounding fluid. It…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-09 Marcel Menner , Eugene Lavretsky