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Monte Carlo simulations have been used to investigate the dynamic phase behavior of a classical Heisenberg spin system with a bilinear exchange anisotropy in a planar thin film geometry. Studies of the field amplitude, frequency and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hyunbum Jang , Malcolm J. Grimson , Carol K. Hall

Magnetic domain structures are a fascinating area of study with interest deriving both from technological applications and fundamental scientific questions. The nature of the striped magnetic phases observed in ultra-thin films is one such…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Tom Hosiawa , A. B. MacIsaac

In the present work fournontrivial stages of electrokinetic instability are identified by direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the full Nernst-Planck-Poisson-Stokes (NPPS) system: i) The stage of the influence of the initial conditions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. A. Demekhin , V. S. Shelistov , S. V. Polyanskikh

The irreversible growth of a magnetic film with spins having two possible orientations is studied in three-dimensional confined geometries of size $L\times L\times M$, where $M\gg L$ is the growing direction. A competing situation with two…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Julián Candia , Ezequiel V. Albano

Experimental results on amorphous ZrAlCu thin film growth and the dynamics of the surface morphology as predicted from a minimal nonlinear stochastic deposition equation are analysed and compared. Key points of this study are (i) an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Raible , S. G. Mayr , S. J. Linz , M. Moske , P. Hänggi , K. Samwer

Using three-dimensional numerical simulations, we demonstrate the growth saturation of an unstable thin liquid film on micropatterned hydrophilic-hydrophobic substrates. We consider different transverse-striped micropatterns, characterized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-26 Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar , Aurora Hernandez-Machado , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Phase separation of a liquid mixture embedded within an elastic network is relevant to a wide range of natural and industrial systems, including biomolecular condensates interacting with the cytoskeleton, structural colouring in bird…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Oliver W. Paulin , Yicheng Qiang , David Zwicker

The dynamics of phase separation for a binary fluid subjected to a uniform shear are solved exactly for a model in which the order parameter is generalized to an n-component vector and the large-n limit taken. Characteristic length scales…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. P. Rapapa , A. J. Bray

In this paper we would like give a short review of our recent works and current investigation in modeling of solid film surfaces growth based on computer Monte Carlo simulations. We also discuss effect of some simplification in growth rules…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 K. Malarz

We study non-equilibrium phases for interacting two-dimensional self-propelled particles with isotropic pair-wise interactions using a persistent kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) approach. We establish the quantitative phase diagram, including the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-17 Juliane U. Klamser , Sebastian C. Kapfer , Werner Krauth

We study the steady state resulting from instabilities in crystals driven through a dissipative medium, for instance, a colloidal crystal which is steadily sedimenting through a viscous fluid. The problem involves two coupled fields, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rangan Lahiri , Mustansir Barma , Sriram Ramaswamy

The surface of a thin liquid film with nonconstant curvature is unstable, as the Laplace pressure drives a flow mediated by viscosity. We present the results of experiments on one of the simplest variable curvature surfaces: a stepped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Joshua D. McGraw , Thomas Salez , Oliver Bäumchen , Elie Raphaël , Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins is important for the formation of membraneless organelles, or biomolecular condensates, which play key roles in the regulation of biochemical processes within cells. In this work, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-18 Antonia Statt , Helena Casademunt , Clifford P. Brangwynne , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

We perform computer simulations of a Cahn-Hilliard model of phase separation which has dynamical asymmetry between the two coexisting phases. The dynamical asymmetry is incorporated by considering a mobility function which is order…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rajeev Ahluwalia

The nanocrystalline-amorphous textures are commonly observed in the coatings synthesized by energetic deposition.This work reports a theoretical study towards binary Cu-C phase separation.By performing a MD simulation using the LAMMPS…

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Gaining insight into the characteristics of epitaxial complex oxide films is essential to control the behavior of devices and catalytic processes. It is known that substrate induced strain, doping, and layer growth can affect the electronic…

Using dissipative particle dynamics simulations, we study the effects of an embedding bulk fluid on the phase separation dynamics in a thin planar liquid film. The domain growth exponent is altered from 2D to 3D behavior upon the addition…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Sanoop Ramachandran , Shigeyuki Komura , Gerhard Gompper

We study the linear evolution of small perturbations in self-gravitating fluid systems with magnetic fields. We consider wave-like perturbations to nonuniform filamentary and sheet-like hydrostatic equilibria in the presence of a uniform…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Curtis S. Gehman , Fred C. Adams , Richard Watkins

We present the results of an experimental study of patterned segregation in a horizontally shaken shallow layer of a binary mixture of dry particles. As the compacity, $C$, of the mixture was increased, the evolution of three distinct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Reis , G. Ehrhardt , T. Mullin

We numerically investigate the meniscus-guided coating of a binary fluid mixture containing a solute and a volatile solvent that phase separates via spinodal decomposition. Motivation is the evaporation-driven deposition of material during…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-12 René de Bruijn , Anton A. Darhuber , Jasper J. Michels , Paul van der Schoot