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Many crucial biological processes operate with surprisingly small numbers of molecules, and there is renewed interest in analyzing the impact of noise associated with these small numbers. Twenty--five years ago, Berg and Purcell showed that…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Bialek , S. Setayeshgar

Transport is one of the most important physical processes in all energy and length scales. Ideal gases and hydrodynamics are, respectively, two opposite limits of transport. Here, we present an unexpected mathematical connection between…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-13 Zhe-Yu Shi , Chao Gao , Hui Zhai

We investigate the coupled dynamics of charge and energy in interacting lattice models with dipole conservation. We formulate a generic hydrodynamic theory for this combination of fractonic constraints and numerically verify its…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-31 A. G. Burchards , J. Feldmeier , A. Schuckert , M. Knap

In this paper, we construct under general assumptions the stochastic dynamics of an interacting particle system in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with sticky boundary. Under appropriate conditions on the interaction the constructed process…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Robert Voßhall

Binding and unbinding of ligands to specific sites of a macromolecule are one of the most elementary molecular interactions inside the cell that embody the computational processes of biological regulations. The interaction between…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-11-10 Hidenori Kimura , Hiroyuki Okano , Reiko J. Tanaka

A common feature of biological self-organization is how active agents communicate with each other or their environment via chemical signaling. Such communications, mediated by self-generated chemical gradients, have consequences for both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-07 Babak Vajdi Hokmabad , Suropriya Saha , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian , Corinna C. Maass

We study charged hydrodynamics in a periodic lattice background. Fluctuations are Bloch waves rather than single momentum Fourier modes. At boundaries of the unit cell where hydrodynamic fluctuations are formally degenerate with their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-24 Nicolas Chagnet , Koenraad Schalm

We present nonlinear dynamic equations for nematic and smectic $A$ liquid crystals in the presence of an alternating electric field and explain their derivation in detail. The local electric field acting in any liquid-crystalline system is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-30 E. S. Pikina , E. I. Kats , A. R. Muratov , V. V. Lebedev

Considering the dynamics of non-interacting particles randomly moving on a lattice, the occurrence of a discontinuous transition in the values of the lattice parameters (lattice spacing and hopping times) determines the uprisal of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Massimiliano Giona , Davide Cocco

Microorganisms can preferentially orient and move along gradients of a chemo-attractant (i.e., chemotax) while colonies of many microorganisms can collectively undergo complex dynamics in response to chemo-attractants that they themselves…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Enkeleida Lushi , Raymond E. Goldstein , Michael J. Shelley

By solving a simple kinetic equation, in the relaxation time approximation, and for a particular set of moments of the distribution function, we establish a set of equations which, on the one hand, capture exactly the dynamics of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Li Yan

This paper studies the dynamical behavior of classical solutions to a hyperbolic system of balance laws, derived from a chemotaxis model with logarithmic sensitivity, subject to time-dependent boundary conditions. It is shown that under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Padi Fuster Aguilera , Kun Zhao

The production of molecules from dual species atomic quantum gases has enabled experiments that employ molecules at nanoKelvin temperatures. As a result, every degree of freedom of these molecules is in a well-defined quantum state and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-27 Jacob P. Covey , Steven A. Moses , Jun Ye , Deborah S. Jin

In this paper homogenization of a mathematical model for plant tissue biomechanics is presented. The microscopic model constitutes a strongly coupled system of reaction-diffusion-convection equations for chemical processes in plant cells,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Andrey Piatnitski , Mariya Ptashnyk

We use effective kinetic theory to study the pre-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. We describe the evolution of linearized energy perturbations on top of out-of-equilibrium background to the energy-momentum tensor at a time when…

Chemotaxis is the process by which cells behave in a way that follows the chemical gradient. Applications to bacteria growth, tissue inflammation, and vascular tumors provide a focus on optimization strategies. Experiments can characterize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-07-18 K. Renee Fister , Maeve L. McCarthy

We formulate an approximate thermodynamic theory of the phase transition in driven lattice gases with attractive nearest-neighbor interactions. We construct the van der Waals equation of state for a driven system where a nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-30 Punyabrata Pradhan , Udo Seifert

We study a modified version of an initial-boundary value problem describing the formation of colony patterns of bacteria \textit{Escherichia Coli}. The original system of three parabolic equations was studied numerically and analytically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Danielle Hilhorst , Pierre Roux

We compare chemotaxis, the migration of cells and higher animals in reaction to a chemical stimulus, and similar phenomena originating within gases from temperature differences. Then we explain two easy mathematical models for handling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sara L. Vesely

We consider a chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system modelling cellular swimming in fluid drops where an exchange of oxygen between the drop and its environment is taken into account. This phenomenon results in an inhomogeneous Robin-type boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Marcel Braukhoff , Bao Quoc Tang