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Molecular exciton-polaritons exhibit long-range, ultrafast propagation, yet recent experiments have reported far slower propagation than expected. In this work, we implement a nonperturbative approach to quantify how static energetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Gustavo J. R. Aroeira , Raphael F. Ribeiro

Excitons dominate the optoelectronic response of many materials. Depending on the time scale and host material, excitons can exhibit free diffusion, phonon-limited diffusion, or polaronic diffusion, and exciton transport often limits the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Joshua J. P. Thompson , Wojciech J. Jankowski , Robert-Jan Slager , Bartomeu Monserrat

Self-assembled supramolecular aggregates are excellent candidates for the design of efficient excitation transport devices. Both artificially prepared and natural photosynthetic aggregates in plants and bacteria present an important degree…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 Alejandro D. Somoza , Ke-Wei Sun , Rafael A. Molina , Yang Zhao

Excitonic transport in static disordered one dimensional systems is studied in the presence of thermal fluctuations that are described by the Haken-Strobl-Reineker model. For short times, non-diffusive behavior is observed that can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 Jeremy M. Moix , Michael Khasin , Jianshu Cao

Introducing disorderness in the superconducting materials has been considered promising to enhance the electromagnetic impedance and realize noise-resilient superconducting qubits. Despite a number of pioneering implementations, the…

In this work we study the transport properties of non-interacting overdamped particles, moving on tilted disordered potentials, subjected to Gaussian white noise. We give exact formulas for the drift and diffusion coefficients for the case…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-04 Raul Salgado-Garcia

Self-assembled quantum dot (QD) solids are a highly tunable class of materials with a wide range of applications in solid-state electronics and optoelectronic devices. In this perspective, we highlight how the presence of microscopic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Elizabeth M. Y. Lee , William A. Tisdale , Adam P. Willard

We analytically study the time-averaged electromagnetic energy stored inside scatterers containing inclusions of arbitrary shapes. Assuming the low density of inclusions, we derive the expression for the energy-transport velocity through…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-02 Tiago J. Arruda , Felipe A. Pinheiro , Alexandre S. Martinez

How topological defects affect the dynamics of particles hopping between lattice sites of a distorted, two-dimensional crystal is addressed. Perturbation theory and numerical simulations show that weak, short-ranged topological disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ligang Chen , Michael W. Deem

We analyze the transport properties of a semiconductor based bilayer system under non-equilibrium conditions with special emphasis on the charge transfer statistics in the regime dominated by the exciton transport. We consider two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 H. Soller , A. Komnik

We used classical and accelerated molecular dynamics simulations to characterize vacancy-mediated diffusion of cations in Gd$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ pyrochlore as a function of the disorder on the microsecond timescale. We find that cation vacancy…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-01 Romain Perriot , Blas P. Uberuaga , Richard J. Zamora , Danny Perez , Arthur F. Voter

We present a theoretical and experimental study of light transport in disordered media with strongly heterogeneous distribution of scatterers formed via non-scattering regions. Step correlations induced by quenched disorder are found to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-03-05 Tomas Svensson , Kevin Vynck , Erik Adolfsson , Andrea Farina , Antonio Pifferi , Diederik S. Wiersma

We present a theoretical framework for biexciton dynamics in molecular aggregates that explicitly treats populations and coherences across excitation manifolds within a reduced density-matrix formalism. By extending kinetic descriptions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rajesh Dutta , Chern Chuang

Established theoretical studies of diffusion in rugged (or rough) potential surfaces have largely focused on quenched energy landscapes. Here we study diffusion on a rugged energy landscape in the presence of dynamic disorder, a situation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-28 Biman Bagchi

We study the interaction among dispersion, nonlinearity, and disorder effects in the context of wave transmission through a discrete periodic structure, subjected to continuous harmonic excitation in its stop band. We consider a damped…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-20 Behrooz Yousefzadeh , A. Srikantha Phani

We study both analytically and numerically how the electronic structure and the transport properties of a two-dimensional disordered system are modified in the presence of resonances. The energy dependence of the density of states and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Brahim Elattari , Tsampikos Kottos

In recent years it has become clear that the transport of excitons and charge carriers in molecular systems can be enhanced by coherent coupling with photons, giving rise to the formation of hybrid excitations known as polaritons. Such…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-19 M. Balasubrahmaniyam , Arie Simkovich , Adina Golombek , Guy Ankonina , Tal Schwartz

Emergent hydrodynamics (EHD) bridges short-time unitarity with late-time thermodynamics, universal transport phenomena characterize the manner and speed of transport and thermalization. Typical non-integrable systems with few conserved…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-23 Andrew Stasiuk , Garrett Heller , Lance Berkey , Bo Xing , Paola Cappellaro

The transport coefficients of disordered media are analyzed using direct numerical simulation and effective medium theory. The results indicate a range of materials parameters for which disorder leads to an enhanced power factor. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 Paul M. Haney

Diffusive transport of particles or, more generally, small objects is a ubiquitous feature of physical and chemical reaction systems. In configurations containing confining walls or constrictions transport is controlled both by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-22 P. Sekhar Burada , Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni , Gerhard Schmid , Peter Talkner