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When water molecules are confined to nanoscale spacings, such as in the nanometer size pores of activated carbon fiber (ACF), their freezing point gets suppressed down to very low temperatures ($\sim$ 150 K), leading to a metastable liquid…

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It is shown that the critical properties of a recently studied model for non-equilibrium wetting are robust if one extends the dynamic rules by single-particle diffusion on terraces of the wetting layer. Examining the behavior at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 S. Rössner , H. Hinrichsen

We propose a computational method to simulate anomalous self-diffusion in a simple liquid. The method is based on a molecular dynamics simulation on which we impose the following two conditions: firstly, the inter-particle interaction is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-07 Simon Standaert , Jan Ryckebusch , Lesley De Cruz

Discontinuous transitions into absorbing states require an effective mechanism that prevents the stabilization of low density states. They can be found in different systems, such as lattice models or stochastic differential equations (e.g.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-12 Salete Pianegonda , Carlos E. Fiore

Using molecular dynamics simulations we investigate the translational dynamics of particles with dipolar interactions in homogenous external fields. For a broad range of concentrations, we find that the anisotropic, yet normal diffusive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Jelena Jordanovic , Sabine H. L. Klapp

While the realistically modeling of the thermodynamic behavior of fluids usually demands elaborated atomistic models, much have been learned from simplified ones. Here, we investigate a model where point-like particles (with activity $z_0$)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-15 Nathann T. Rodrigues , Tiago J. Oliveira

A model for anomalous transport of tracer particles diffusing in complex media in two dimensions is proposed. The model takes into account the characteristics of persistent motion that active bath transfer to the tracer, thus the model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Francisco J. Sevilla , Adriano Valdés-Gómez , Alexis Torres-Carbajal

In this article we investigate through molecular dynamics simulations the diffusion behavior of the TIP4P/2005 water when confined in pristine and deformed carbon nanotubes (armchair and zigzag). To analyze different diffusive mechanisms,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-03 Bruno H. S. Mendonça , Patricia Ternes , Evy Salcedo , Alan B. de Oliveira , Marcia C. Barbosa

We study the problem of a Brownian particle diffusing in finite dimensions in a potential given by $\psi= \phi^2/2$ where $\phi$ is Gaussian random field. Exact results for the diffusion constant in the high temperature phase are given in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Touya , D. S. Dean

Anomalous-diffusion, the departure of the spreading dynamics of diffusing particles from the traditional law of Brownian-motion, is a signature feature of a large number of complex soft-matter and biological systems. Anomalous-diffusion…

We study a very simple model of a short-range attraction and an outer shell repulsion as a test system for demixing phase transition and density anomaly. The phase-diagram is obtained by applying mean field analysis and Monte Carlo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Alan B. de Oliveira , Marcia C. Barbosa

Demixing of binary fluids subjected to slow temperature ramps shows repeated waves of nucleation which arise as a consequence of the competition between generation of supersaturation by the temperature ramp and relaxation of supersaturation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-16 Izabella J. Benczik , Jürgen Vollmer

This review article aims to stress and reunite some of the analytic formalism of the anomalous diffusive processes that have succeeded in their description. Also, it has the objective to discuss which of the new directions they have taken…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-28 Maike A. F. dos Santos

Lateral diffusion of molecules on surfaces plays a very important role in various biological processes, including lipid transport across the cell membrane, synaptic transmission and other phenomena such as exo- and endocytosis, signal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-12 A. B. Duncan , C. M. Elliott , G. A. Pavliotis , A. M. Stuart

Anomalous diffusion often arises in complex environments where viscoelastic or crowded conditions influence particle motion. In many biological and soft-matter systems, distinct components of the medium exhibit unique viscoelastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-05 Chan Lim , Jae-Hyung Jeon

The stochastic dynamics of tracers arising from hydrodynamic fluctuations in a driven electrolyte is studied using a self-consistent field-theory framework in all dimensions. A plethora of scaling behaviour that includes two distinct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-12 Ramin Golestanian

Kinetically-constrained models are lattice-gas models that are used for describing glassy systems. By construction, their equilibrium state is trivial and there are no equal-time correlations between the occupancy of different sites. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-01 Eial Teomy , Yair Shokef

We investigate the process by which a water molecule diffuses on the surface of an Al(111) electrode under constant bias voltage by first-principles density functional theory. To understand the diffusion path of the water on the Al(111), we…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Satoshi Hagiwara , Chunping Hu , Satomichi Nishihara , Minoru Otani

Transport phenomena are studied for a binary (AB) alloy on a rigid square lattice with nearest-neighbor attraction between unlike particles, assuming a small concentration $c_v$ of vacancies $V$ being present, to which $A(B)$ particles can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Virgiliis , K. Binder

Supercritical fluids near the critical point are characterized by liquid-like densities and gas-like transport properties. These features are purposely exploited in different contexts ranging from natural products extraction/fractionation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-21 Francesco Battista , Francesco Picano , Carlo Massimo Casciola