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The adhesion of biomembranes is mediated by the binding of membrane-anchored receptor and ligand proteins. The proteins can only bind if the separation between apposing membranes is sufficiently close to the length of the protein complexes,…
We use a path integral approach to calculate the superfluid density of a Bose lattice gas in the limit where the number of atoms per site is large. Our analytical expressions agree with numerical results on small systems for low…
We study the kinetics of infiltration in which contaminant particles, which are suspended in a flowing carrier fluid, penetrate a porous medium. The progress of the ``invader'' particles is impeded by their trapping on active ``defender''…
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