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Motivated by the idea that intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) condense into liquid-like droplets within cells, we carry out Monte Carlo simulations of a polymer lattice model to study the relationship between charge patterning and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-11 Nicholas A. S. Robichaud , Ivan Saika-Voivod , Stefan Wallin

Colloidal particles self assemble into a wide range of structures under external AC electric fields due to induced dipolar interactions [Yethiraj and Van Blaaderen Nature 421 513 (2003)]. As a result of these dipolar interactions, at low…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-29 Xiaoyue Wu , Fiona C. Meldrum , Katherine Skipper , Yushi Yang , C. Patrick Royall

We calculate the scaling exponents of the two-dimensional correlated percolation cluster's hull and unscreened perimeter. Correlations are introduced through an underlying correlated random potential, which is used to define the state of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-05 Indrek Mandre , Jaan Kalda

Hard spheres are an important benchmark of our understanding of natural and synthetic systems. In this work, colloidal experiments and Monte Carlo simulations examine the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium assembly of hard spheres of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-03 Lin Fu , Ce Bian , C. Wyatt Shields , Daniela F. Cruz , Gabriel P. López , Patrick Charbonneau

A linear copolymer made of two reciprocally attracting N-monomer blocks collapses to a compact phase through a novel transition, whose exponents are determined with extensive MC simulations in two and three dimensions. In the former case,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Orlandini , F. Seno , A. L. Stella

Binary mixture of oppositely charged of colloids can be used to stabilize water-in-oil or oil-in-water emulsions. A Monte Carlo simulation study to address the effect of charge ratio of colloids on the stability of Pickering emulsions is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Sam David Christdoss Pushpam , Madivala G. Basavaraj , Ethayaraja Mani

The behavior of confined cylindrical micelle-forming surfactants under the influence of shear has been investigated using Monte Carlo simulations. The surfactants are modeled as coarse-grained lattice polymers, while the Monte Carlo shear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Gaurav Arya , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

We investigate the phase behavior of symmetric AB diblock copolymers confined into a thin film. The film boundaries are parallel, impenetrable and attract the A component of the diblock copolymer. Using a self-consistent field technique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thorsten Geisinger , Marcus Mueller , Kurt Binder

The separation of substances into different phases is ubiquitous in nature and important scientifically and technologically. This phenomenon may become drastically different if the species involved, whether molecules or supramolecular…

We simulate a disordered assembly of particles interacting through a repulsive Yukawa potential with a small fraction of the particles coupled to an external drive. Distortions in the arrangement of the nondriven particles produce a…

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

The influence of confinement, due to flat parallel structureless walls, on phase separation in colloid-polymer mixtures, is investigated by means of grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Ultra-thin films, with thicknesses between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard L. C. Vink , Andres De Virgiliis , Juergen Horbach , Kurt Binder

Torsional-space Monte Carlo simulations of flexible molecules are usually based on the assumption that all values of dihedral angles have equal probability in the absence of atomic interactions. In the present paper it is shown that this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Kraemer

We report the results of extensive Dynamic Monte Carlo simulations of systems of self-assembled Equilibrium Polymers without rings in good solvent. Confirming recent theoretical predictions, the mean-chain length is found to scale as $\Lav…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Wittmer , A. Milchev , M. E. Cates

A binary mixture of particles interacting with spherically-symmetric potentials leading to microsegregation is studied by theory and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We consider spherical particles with equal diameters and volume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-20 O. Patsahan , M. Litniewski , A. Ciach

We study the properties of the two-dimensional Fermi polaron model in which an impurity attractively interacts with a Fermi sea of particles in the zero-range limit. We use a diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) method which allows us to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonas Vlietinck , Jan Ryckebusch , Kris Van Houcke

Due to the complex characteristics of bottle-brush polymers, it became a challenge to develop an efficient algorithm for studying such macromolecules under various solvent conditions or some constraints in the space by using computer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-08 Hsiao-Ping Hsu

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are used to calculate various ground state properties of charged bosons in two dimensions, throughout the whole density range where the fluid phase is stable. Wigner crystallization is predicted at $r_s\simeq…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-01 S. De Palo , S. Conti , S. Moroni

Sequential Monte Carlo methods are typically not straightforward to implement on parallel architectures. This is because standard resampling schemes involve communication between all particles. The $\alpha$-sequential Monte Carlo method was…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Deborshee Sen

A brief review of modeling and simulation methods for a study of polymers at interfaces is provided. When studying truly multiscale problems as provided by realistic polymer systems, coarse graining is practically unavoidable. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-19 Fathollah Varnik , Kurt Binder

We study the classical two-dimensional Coulomb gas model for thermal vortex fluctuations in thin superconducting/superfluid films by Monte Carlo simulation of a grand canonical vortex ensemble defined on a continuum. The Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jack Lidmar , Mats Wallin