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Diffusion models generate samples by denoising along the score of a perturbed target distribution. In practice, one trains a neural diffusion model, which is computationally expensive. Recent work suggests that score matching implicitly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Zhenyu Yao , Daniel Paulin

We address the mechanical effect of rigid boundaries on freezing suspensions. For this we perform the directional solidification of monodispersed suspensions in thin samples and we document the thickness h of the dense particle layer that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-20 Brice Saint-Michel , Marc Georgelin , Sylvain Deville , Alain Pocheau

We introduce an event-driven simulation scheme for overdamped dynamics of frictionless hard spheres subjected to external forces, neglecting hydrodynamic interactions. Our event-driven approach is based on an exact equation of motion which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Edan Lerner , Gustavo Düring , Matthieu Wyart

Recent experiments indicate that frictional sliding occurs by the nucleation of detachment fronts at the contact interface that may appear well before the onset of global sliding. This intriguing precursory activity is not accounted for by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-04 Alessandro Taloni , Andrea Benassi , Stefan Sandfeld , Stefano Zapperi

In this work, we investigate the unjamming transition in a three-dimensional granular system composed of frictional spheres, in which the packing fraction is systematically reduced by random particle extractions. Using Discrete Element…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-23 Vicente Salinas , Héctor Alarcón , Eduardo Rojas , Pablo Gutiérrez , Gustavo Castillo

The connection between friction and jamming in granular media, molecular glasses, and complex fluids is explored. The paper first reviews the way friction is measured, the types of results that are observed, and what is known about the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark O. Robbins

Using Stokesian dynamics simulations, we examine the flow of a monodisperse, neutrally buoyant, homogeneous suspension of non-Brownian solid spheres in simple shear, starting from a large number of independent hard-sphere distributions and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-19 M. Marchioro , A. Acrivos

We present a new hybrid lattice-Boltzmann and Langevin molecular dynamics scheme for simulating the dynamics of suspensions of spherical colloidal particles. The solvent is modeled on the level of the lattice-Boltzmann method while the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-20 Vladimir Lobaskin , Burkhard Duenweg

The choice of the boundary conditions in mechanical problems has to reflect the interaction of the considered material with the surface, despite the assumption of the no-slip condition is preferred to avoid boundary terms in the analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Anna Abbatiello , Miroslav Bulíček , Erika Maringová

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is an effective mesoscopic particle model with a lower computational cost than molecular dynamics because of the soft potentials that it employs. However, the soft potential is not strong enough to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Zhijie Xu , Paul Meakin

Previous years researchers began to simulate open quantum system, taking into account the interaction between system and the environment. One approach to deal with this problem is to use the density matrix within the Liouville-von-Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Mohammad Attrash , Roi Baer

Particle-based simulations of discontinuous shear thickening (DST) and shear jamming (SJ) suspensions are used to study the role of stress-activated constraints, with an emphasis on resistance to gear-like rolling. Rolling friction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-25 Abhinendra Singh , Christopher Ness , Ryohei Seto , Juan J de Pablo , Heinrich M Jaeger

The deformability of soft condensed matter often requires modelling of hydrodynamical aspects to gain quantitative understanding. This, however, requires specialised methods that can resolve the multiscale nature of soft matter systems. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-22 Ulf D. Schiller , Timm Krüger , Oliver Henrich

In the world of technology, one of the most important forms of friction is that of rolling friction. Yet it is one of the least studied of all the known forms of energy dissipation. In the present experiments we investigate the oscillatory…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Randall D. Peters

We study an approach to simulating the stochastic relativistic advection-diffusion equation based on the Metropolis algorithm. We show that the dissipative dynamics of the boosted fluctuating fluid can be simulated by making random…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Gokce Basar , Jay Bhambure , Rajeev Singh , Derek Teaney

Dispersive shock waves and solitons are fundamental nonlinear excitations in dispersive media, but dispersive shock wave studies to date have been severely constrained. Here we report on a novel dispersive hydrodynamics testbed: the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-04 Michelle D. Maiden , Nicholas K. Lowman , Dalton V. Anderson , Marika E. Schubert , Mark A. Hoefer

The dynamics of spin-boson systems at very low temperatures has been studied using a real-time path-integral simulation technique which combines a stochastic Monte Carlo sampling over the quantum fluctuations with an exact treatment of the…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-22 Reinhold Egger , C. H. Mak

The thermodynamic model of ultrathin lubricant film melting, confined between two atomically-flat solid surfaces, is built using the Landau phase transition approach. Non-equilibrium entropy is introduced describing the part of thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 L. S. Metlov , A. V. Khomenko , I. A. Lyashenko

This paper presents the stability analysis of a system sliding at low velocities ($< 100 \mu$m.s$^{-1}$) under a periodically modulated normal load, preserving interfacial contact. Experiments clearly evidence that normal vibrations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cochard , L. Bureau , T. Baumberger

What lattice Lennard-Jones (LJ) solid favors, the lattice identification of simulated system and the microstructures of liquid and non-crystalline solid are three important questions in condensed physics and material science and are…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-19 Hui Zhang , Zhongwu Liu , Xichun Zhong , Dongling Jiao , Wanqi Qiu