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Cross-plane heat transport in thin films with thickness comparable to the phonon mean free paths is of both fundamental and practical interest. However, physical insight is difficult to obtain for the cross-plane geometry due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Chengyun Hua , Austin J. Minnich

From the spread of pollutants in the atmosphere to the transmission of nutrients across cell membranes, anomalous diffusion processes are ubiquitous in natural systems. The ability to understand and control the mechanisms guiding such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 E G Kostadinova , J L Padgett , C D Liaw , L S Matthews , T W Hyde

We study the transport properties of a quasi-two-dimensional diffusive normal metal film attached to a superconductor. We demonstrate that the properties of such films can essentially differ from those of quasi-one-dimensional systems: in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank K. Wilhelm , Andrei D. Zaikin , Herve Courtois , .

The charge carrier transport in metal phthallocyanine based disordered thin films has been investigated. Charge carrier mobility in these disordered thin films strongly depends on the electric field and temperature due to hopping…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Ajit Kumar Mahapatro , Subhasis Ghosh

The paper describes a study of wet foams in microgravity whose bubble size distribution evolves due to diffusive gas exchange. We focus on the comparison between the size of bubbles determined from images of the foam surface and the size of…

We present an extensive Monte Carlo study on light transport in optically thin slabs, addressing both axial and transverse propagation. We completely characterize the so-called ballistic-to-diffusive transition, notably in terms of the…

Understanding ballistic phonon transport effects in transient thermoreflectance experiments and explaining the observed deviations from classical theory remains a challenge. Diffusion equations are simple and computationally efficient but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom

The transport phenomenon of active particles confined in 3D(three dimensional) corrugated confined channel with Gaussian noises is investigated. Large noise intensity perpendicular to the symmetry axis is good for the diffusion and current…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-01 Bing Wang

On speed of a photon in a dispersing medium Ogluzdin Valeriy E. Abstract Based on the author of the experimental results and their treatment, a model that demonstrates that the real dispersive medium in spectral regions where the refractive…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Valeriy E. Ogluzdin

Droplet impact on thin liquid films is commonly studied on quiescent surfaces, although practical systems often involve residual capillary waves generated by preceding droplets. This study examines how such traveling waves modify impact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-11 Hatim Ennayar , Frederik Roy Patria , Jeanette Hussong

Transport of viscous fluid through porous media is a direct consequence of the pore structure. Here we investigate transport through a specific class of two-dimensional porous geometries, namely those formed by fluid-mechanical erosion. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Shang-Huan Chiu , M. N. J. Moore , Bryan D. Quaife

Based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation under the relaxation time approximation, analytical expressions for the temperature profiles of both steady state and modulated heat conduction inside a thin film deposited on a substrate are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Jose Ordonez-Miranda , Ronggui Yang , Sebastian Volz , J. J. Alvarado-Gil

The highly confined flow of the liquid phase, trapped between the gas bubbles, is at the origin of the large effective viscosity of the liquid foams. Despite the industrial relevance of this complex fluid, the foam viscosity remains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-08 Adrien Bussonnière , Evgenia Shabalina , Xavier Ah-Thon , Mickaël Le Fur , Isabelle Cantat

The theory of nonlinear diffraction of intensive light beams propagating through photorefractive media is developed. Diffraction occurs on a reflecting wire embedded in the nonlinear medium at relatively small angle with respect to the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 E. G. Khamis , A. Gammal , G. A. El , Yu. G. Gladush , A. M. Kamchatnov

We calculate numerically the normal modes of vibrations in 3D jammed packings of soft spheres as a function of the packing fraction and obtain the energy diffusivity, a spectral measure of transport that controls sound propagation and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Vincenzo Vitelli , Ning Xu , Matthieu Wyart , Andrea J. Liu , Sidney R. Nagel

We study light diffraction in the periodically modulated ultrathin metal films both analytically and numerically. Without modulation these films are almost transparent. The periodicity results in the anomalous effects, such as suppression…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 I. S. Spevak , A. Yu. Nikitin , E. V. Bezuglyi , A. Levchenko , A. V. Kats

This review article examines the complex dynamics of thin-film flows of granular suspensions spreading over rigid solid substrates with free air interfaces. Such systems feature an involved coupling of the free-surface dynamics with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-14 Alice Pelosse , Elisabeth Guazzelli , Matthieu Roché

We derive a grey linear diffusion equation for photons with respect to inertial (or lab-frame) space and time, using asymptotic analysis in 1D planar geometry. The solution of the equation is the comoving radiation energy density. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Ryan T. Wollaeger , Jim E. Morel , Kendra P. Long , Mathew A. Cleveland , Robert B. Lowrie

Diffusive Radiation is a new type of radiation predicted to occur in randomly inhomogeneous media due to the multiple scattering of pseudophotons. This theoretical effect is now observed experimentally. The radiation is generated by the…

In this paper, we study the full conductance statistics of disordered one dimensional wire under the application of light. We develop the transfer matrix method for periodically driven systems to analyze the conductance of large system with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-03 Takuya Kitagawa , Takashi Oka , Eugene Demler