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A new class of self-propelled droplets, coined superwalkers, has been shown to emerge when a bath of silicone oil is vibrated simultaneously at a given frequency and its subharmonic tone with a relative phase difference between them (Valani…

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The breakup of a fluid jet into droplets has long fascinated natural scientists, with early research dating back to the 19th century. Infinitesimal perturbations to a jet grow because of surface tension, which eventually leads to breakup of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-07 Takuji Ishikawa , Thanh-Nghi Dang , Eric Lauga

Deformed droplets are ubiquitous in various industrial applications, such as inkjet printing, lab-on-a-chip devices, and spray cooling, and can fundamentally affect the involved applications both favorably and unfavorably. Here, we employ…

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of synthetic active particles composed of gravitationally bouncing, superwalking droplets confined within an annular fluid bath. Driven by a topologically pumping dual-frequency waveform, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-19 Rudra Sekhri , Rahil N. Valani , Tapio Simula

We develop a Hamiltonian theory of a time dispersive and dissipative inhomogeneous medium, as described by a linear response equation respecting causality and power dissipation. The proposed Hamiltonian couples the given system to auxiliary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-24 Alex Figotin , Jeffrey H. Schenker

Simulation and analysis of multidimensional dynamics of a quantum non-Hmeritian system is a challenging problem. Gaussian wavepacket dynamics has proven to be an intuitive semiclassical approach to approximately solving the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Amartya Bose

Reactive Rayleigh-Taylor systems are characterized by the competition between the growth of the instability and the rate of reaction between cold (heavy) and hot (light) phases. We present results from state-of-the-art numerical simulations…

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Collections of persistently moving active particles are an example of a nonequilibrium heat bath. One way to study the nature of nonequilibrium fluctuations in such systems is to follow the dynamics of an embedded probe particle. With this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-13 Pritha Dolai , Aditya Singh Rajput , K. Vijay Kumar

Rutherford scattering is usually described by treating the projectile either classically or as quantum mechanical plane waves. Here we treat them as wave packets and study their head-on collisions with the stationary target nuclei. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 A Kumar , T Krisnanda , P Arumugam , T Paterek

In this paper, we present a theoretical, experimental, and numerical study of the dynamics of cavitation bubbles inside a droplet suspended in another host fluid. On the theoretical side, we provided a modified Rayleigh collapse time and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Shuai Li , Zhesheng Zhao , A-Man Zhang , Rui Han

Hydrodynamic interactions between fluid-dispersed particles are ubiquitous in soft matter and biological systems and they give rise to intriguing collective phenomena. While it was reported that these interactions can facilitate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-29 Eric Cereceda-López , Dominik Lips , Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass , Pietro Tierno

We numerically study the quantum dynamics of a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric kicked harmonic oscillator. We observe that directed current of momentum and ballistic diffusion of energy coexist under the non-resonant conditions, whereas both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Jian-Zheng Li

We derive an electron-vibration model Hamiltonian in a quantum chemical framework, and explore the extent to which such a Hamiltonian can capture key effects of nonadiabatic dynamics. The model Hamiltonian is a simple two-body operator, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Thomas Dresselhaus , Callum B. A. Bungey , Peter J. Knowles , Frederick R. Manby

In this paper a generalization of Weyl quantization which maps a dynamical operator in a function space to a dynamical superoperator in an operator space is suggested. Quantization of dynamical operator, which cannot be represented as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasily E. Tarasov

A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid, forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical phase transition. At these densities, the transport of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-14 Jyoti Prasad Banerjee , Rituparno Mandal , Deb Sankar Banerjee , Shashi Thutupalli , Madan Rao

The interaction of a droplet with a swirling airstream is investigated experimentally by shadowgraphy and particle image velocimetry techniques. In swirl flow, the droplet experiences oppose-flow, cross-flow, and co-flow conditions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-05 Pavan Kumar Kirar , Surendra Kumar Soni , Pankaj S. Kolhe , Kirti Chandra Sahu

Over the past decade the study of fluidic droplets bouncing and skipping (or ``walking'') on a vibrating fluid bath has gone from an interesting experiment to a vibrant research field. The field exhibits challenging fluids problems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-18 Aminur Rahman , Denis Blackmore

This study examines the dynamics of a tracer particle diffusing in a nonequilibrium medium under stochastic resetting. The nonequilibrium state is induced by harmonic coupling between the tracer and bath particles, generating memory effects…

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We study travelling waves on a two--dimensional lattice with linear and nonlinear coupling between nearest particles and a periodic nonlinear substrate potential. Such a discrete system can model molecules adsorbed on a substrate crystal…

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