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Quasielastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulation data from PEO/PMMA blends found that for short times the self-dynamics of PEO chain follows the Rouse model, but at longer times past tc=1 to 2 ns it becomes slower and…

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Polymer stretching in random smooth flows is investigated within the framework of the FENE dumbbell model. The advecting flow is Gaussian and short-correlated in time. The stationary probability density function of polymer extension is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Martins Afonso , D. Vincenzi

By means of computer simulations, we investigate the relaxation of the Rouse modes in a simple bead-spring model for non-entangled polymer blends. Two different models are used for the fast component, namely fully-flexible and semiflexible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Marco Bernabei , Angel J. Moreno , Juan Colmenero

The explicit determinations of the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for trapping problem are limited to some simple structure, e.g., regular lattices and regular geometrical fractals, and determining MFPT for random walks on other media,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yi Qi , Shuigeng Zhou , Wenlei Xie , Jihong Guan

We study the swelling of a flexible linear chain composed of active particles by analytical theory and computer simulation. Three different situations are considered: a free chain, a chain confined to an external harmonic trap, and a chain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-31 Andreas Kaiser , Sonja Babel , Borge ten Hagen , Christian von Ferber , Hartmut Löwen

We present a scaling theory and Monte Carlo (MC) simulation results for a flexible polymer chain slowly dragged by one end into a nanotube. We also describe the situation when the completely confined chain is released and gradually leaves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Leonid I. Klushin , Alexander M. Skvortsov , Hsiao-Ping Hsu , Kurt Binder

We develop a method based on martingales to study first-passage problems of time-additive observables exiting an interval of finite width in a Markov process. In the limit that the interval width is large, we derive generic expressions for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-14 Izaak Neri

We study the out-of-equilibrium large time dynamics of a gaussian polymer chain in a quenched random potential. The dynamics studied is a simple Langevin dynamics commonly referred to as the Rouse model. The equations for the two-time…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Yadin Y. Goldschmidt

The Langevin dynamics of a self - interacting chain embedded in a quenched random medium is investigated by making use of the generating functional method and one - loop (Hartree) approximation. We have shown how this intrinsic disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriele Migliorini , Vakhtang G. Rostiashvili , Thomas A. Vilgis

The ``first passage-time'' (FPT) problem is an important problem with a wide range of applications in mathematics, physics, biology and finance. Mathematically, such a problem can be reduced to estimating the probability of a (stochastic)…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Di Zhang , Roderick V. N. Melnik

We present a perturbation theory by extending a prescription due to Feynman for computing the probability density function for the random flight motion. The method can be applied to a wide variety of otherwise difficult circumstances. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tim Hatamian

In this work we study the noise induced effects on the dynamics of short polymers crossing a potential barrier, in the presence of a metastable state. An improved version of the Rouse model for a flexible polymer has been adopted to mimic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Pizzolato , A. Fiasconaro , B. Spagnolo

We present Monte Carlo simulations of semidilute solutions of long self-attracting chain polymers near their Ising type critical point. The polymers are modeled as monodisperse self-avoiding walks on the simple cubic lattice with attraction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Frauenkron , P. Grassberger , HLRZ Juelich , Germany

We study a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle (RTP), which is a prototypical model for active system, moving within an arbitrary external potential. Using backward Fokker-Planck equations, we derive the differential equation satisfied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mathis Guéneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

The study of first passage percolation (FPP) for the random interlacements model has been initiated in arXiv:2112.12096, where it is shown that on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\geq 3$, the FPP distance is comparable to the graph distance with high…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Alexis Prévost

A linear polymer grafted to a hard wall and underneath an AFM tip can be modelled in a lattice as a grafted lattice polymer (or self-avoiding walk) compressed underneath a piston approaching the wall. As the piston approaches the wall the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-16 EJ Janse van Rensburg

We consider a fully directed self-avoiding walk model on a cubic lattice to mimic the conformations of an infinitely long confined flexible polymer chain; and the confinement condition is achieved by two parallel athermal plates. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-21 P K Mishra

A simple one-dimensional model is constructed for polymer motion. It exhibits the crossover from reptation to Rouse dynamics through gradually allowing hernia creation and annihilation. The model is treated by the density matrix technique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrzej Drzewinski , J. M. J. van Leeuwen

We present results of Monte Carlo simulations measuring the coherent structure function of a chain moving through an ordered lattice of fixed topological obstacles. Our computer experiments use chains up to 320 beads and cover a large range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Artur Baumgärtner , Ute Ebert , Lothar Schäfer

For rotationally invariant first passage percolation (FPP) on the plane, we use a multi-scale argument to prove stretched exponential concentration of the first passage times at the scale of the standard deviation. Our results are proved…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Riddhipratim Basu , Vladas Sidoravicius , Allan Sly