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We examine the dynamics of a single colloidal particle driven through a colloidal lattice which can distort in response to the driven particle. We find a remarkably rich variety of dynamical locking phenomena as we vary the angle of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

The filamentation instability driven by two spatially uniform and counter-streaming beams of charged particles in plasmas is modelled by a particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. Each beam consists of the electrons and positrons. The four…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 M E Dieckmann , P K Shukla , L Stenflo

Charge transport is well understood in both highly ordered materials (band conduction) or highly disordered ones (hopping conduction). In moderately disordered materials -- including many organic semiconductors -- the approximations valid…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Daniel Balzer , Thijs J. A. M. Smolders , David Blyth , Samantha N. Hood , Ivan Kassal

We consider Monte Carlo algorithms for the simulation of charged lattice gases with purely local dynamics. We study the mobility of particles as a function of temperature and show that the poor mobility of particles at low temperatures is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Levrel , A. C. Maggs

An electron transport is studied in the system which consists of scanning tunneling microscopy-single molecule magnet-metal. Due to quantum tunneling of magnetization in single-molecule magnet, linear response conductance exhibits stepwise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gwang-Hee Kim , Tae-Suk Kim

We study the current and the associated noise for the transport through a two-site molecule driven by an external oscillating field. Within a high-frequency approximation, the time-dependent Hamiltonian is mapped to a static one with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sigmund Kohler , Sébastien Camalet , Michael Strass , Jörg Lehmann , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Hänggi

Via computation of a continuum dynamical model of the diffusion and electromigration, this paper demonstrates the feasibility of guiding the formation of the stripe composition patterns in the thin surface layers of the crystal alloy films.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-01 Mikhail Khenner

We study the rheological properties of colloidal microphases in two dimensions simulating a model of colloidal particles with competing interactions. Due to the competition between short-range attraction and long-range repulsion, as a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Imperio , L. Reatto , S. Zapperi

The work is devoted to particles dynamics simulation in a colloidal drop, when it dries on a substrate and the triple-phase boundary is fixed. Experimental observations [Deegan R. D. et. al., 2000] show a ring deposition on a solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-28 K. S. Kolegov

An analytical analysis is presented of the transport and capture of magnetic micro/nano-particles in a magnetophoretic microsystem that consists of an array of integrated soft-magnetic elements embedded beneath a microfluidic channel. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. P. Furlani

We study by extensive Monte Carlo simulations the transport of itinerant spins travelling inside a multilayer composed of three ferromagnetic films antiferromagnetically coupled to each other in a sandwich structure. The two exterior films…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Akabli , H. T. Diep , S. Reynal

Monte Carlo simulation, experiment and continuum theory are used to examine the anchoring exhibited by a nematic liquid crystal at a patterned substrate comprising a periodic array of rectangles that, respectively, promote vertical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-09 Candy Anquetil-Deck , Douglas J. Cleaver , Jonathan P. Bramble , Timothy J. Atherton

Conventional approaches for simulating steady-state distributions of particles under diffusive and advective transport at high P\'eclet numbers involve solving the diffusion and advection equations in at least two dimensions. Here, we…

Random-walk Monte Carlo simulations are widely used to predict the optical properties of complex, disordered materials. In presence of large heterogeneities (e.g., spatially-extended nonscattering regions in a turbid environment), an…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 Loïc Tran , Benjamin Askenazi , Kevin Vynck

We study colloidal particles in a nematic-liquid-crystal-filled microfluidic channel and show how elastic interactions between the particle and the channel wall lead to different particle dynamics compared with conventional microfluidics.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-31 Sourav Mondal , Apala Majumdar , Ian M. Griffiths

We study some aspects of a Monte Carlo method invented by Maggs and Rossetto for simulating systems of charged particles. It has the feature that the discretized electric field is updated locally when charges move. Results of simulations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-27 P. A. McClarty

We study size- and charge-asymmetric oppositely charged colloids driven by an external electric field. The large particles are connected by harmonic springs, forming a hexagonal-lattice network while the small particles are free of bonds…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-24 Dingwen Qian , Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Directional locking occurs when a particle moving over a periodic substrate becomes constrained to travel along certain substrate symmetry directions. Such locking effects arise for colloids and superconducting vortices moving over ordered…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

This paper presents a new method of Monte-Carlo simulations of test particle Fermi acceleration at relativistic shocks. The particle trajectories in tangled magnetic fields are integrated out exactly from entry to exit through the shock,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Lemoine , G. Pelletier

We use stochastic computer simulations to study the transport of a spherical cargo particle along a microtubule-like track on a planar substrate by several kinesin-like processive motors. Our newly developed adhesive motor dynamics…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2010-02-24 Christian B. Korn , Stefan Klumpp , Reinhard Lipowsky , Ulrich S. Schwarz