English
Related papers

Related papers: Energy localization and shape transformations in s…

200 papers

Two ring polymers close to each other in space may be either in a segregated phase if there is a strong repulsion between monomers in the polymers, or intermingle in a mixed phase if there is a strong attractive force between the monomers.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-23 EJ Janse van Rensburg , E Orlandini , MC Tesi , SG Whittington

Labyrinthine patterns arise in two-dimensional physical systems submitted to competing interactions, ranging from the fields of solid-state physics to hydrodynamics. For systems of interacting particles, labyrinthine and stripe phases were…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-16 Simon Merminod , Timothee Jamin , Eric Falcon , Michael Berhanu

Nano-scale confinement of polymer in cone-shaped geometries occurs in many experimental situations. A flexible polymer confined in a cone-shaped nano-channel is studied theoretically and using molecular dynamics simulations. Distribution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-24 Narges Nikoofard , Hossein Fazli

This paper deals with the energy transport properties of charged particles with time-dependent damping force. Based on the proposed nonlinear dimensionless mapping,the stability and dynamical evolution of the particle system is analyzed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-01 Hao Zhang , Pengcheng Luo , Huifang Ding

We investigate theoretically the transfer of excitation along a one dimensional chain of monomers for a situation in which initially the excitation is shared coherently by two monomers. We show that depending on the relative phase between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 Alexander Eisfeld

The wrapping equilibria of one and two adsorbing cylinders are studied along a semi-flexible filament (polymer) due to the interplay between elastic rigidity and short-range adhesive energy between the cylinder and the filament. We show…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 David S. Dean , Thomas C. Hammant , Ronald R. Horgan , Ali Naji , Rudolf Podgornik

We consider interacting vortices in a quasi-one-dimensional array of Josephson junctions with small capacitance. If the charging energy of a junction is of the order of the Josephson energy, the fluctuations of the superconducting order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Bruder , L. I. Glazman , A. I. Larkin , J. E. Mooij , A. van Oudenaarden

We present a set of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of strongly charged, flexible polyelectrolyte chains under poor solvent conditions in a salt free solution. Structural properties of the chains and of the solutions are reported. By…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe Micka , Christian Holm , Kurt Kremer

We discuss stationary aspects of a set of driven lattice gases in which hard-core particles with spatial extent, covering more than one lattice site, diffuse and reconstruct in one dimension under nearest-neighbor interactions. As in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 M. D. Grynberg

Dipolar particles in an elongated trap are expected to undergo a quantum phase transition from a linear to a zigzag structure with decreasing transverse confinement. We derive the low energy effective theory of the transition showing that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-23 Jonathan Ruhman , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre , Sebastian D. Huber , Ehud Altman

The role of polarization in the topology of quantum emitter chains is investigated theoretically, whereby "polarization" refers to the transition dipole moments of the emitters. We show that, if the chain is zigzag-shaped, different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Jonathan Sturm , Adriana Pálffy

We theoretically investigate the kinetics of the folding transition of a single semiflexible polymer. In the folding transition, the growth rate decrease with an increase in the number of monomers in a collapsed domain, suggesting that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Natsuhiko Yoshinaga

We study elasticity-driven morphological transitions of soft spherical core shell structures in which the core can be treated as an isotropic elastic continuum and the surface or shell as a tensionless liquid layer, whose elastic response…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-13 Craig Fogle , Amy C. Rowat , Alex J. Levine , Joseph Rudnick

Ring polymers are an intriguing class of polymers with unique physical properties, and understanding their behavior is important for developing accurate theoretical models. In this study, we investigate the effect of chain stiffness and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-24 Shota Goto , Kang Kim , Nobuyuki Matubayasi

The behavior of mobile linkers connecting two semi-flexible charged polymers, such as polyvalent counterions connecting DNA or F-actin chains, is studied theoretically. The chain bending rigidity induces an effective repulsion between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Borukhov , R. F. Bruinsma , W. M. Gelbart , A. J. Liu

We consider a lattice model of a semiflexible homopolymer chain in a bad solvent. Beside the temperature $T$, this model is described by (i) a curvature energy $\varepsilon_h$, representing the stiffness of the chain (ii) a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Doniach , T. Garel , H. Orland

We have studied the thermodynamics of isolated homopolymer chains of varying stiffness using a lattice model. A complex phase behaviour is found; phases include chain-folded `crystalline' structures, the disordered globule and the coil. It…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Jonathan Doye , Richard Sear , Daan Frenkel

A quantum spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ chain with an axial symmetry is normally described by quasiparticles associated with the spins oriented along the axis of rotation. Kinetic constraints can enrich such a description by setting apart different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Maurizio Fagotti

Resonant dipole-dipole interaction modifies the energy and decay rate of electronic excitations for finite one dimensional chains of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. We show that collective excited states of the atomic chain can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 Hashem Zoubi , Helmut Ritsch

We study the dynamics of a single chain polymer confined to a two dimensional cell. We introduce a kinetically constrained lattice gas model that preserves the connectivity of the chain, and we use this kinetically constrained model to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Armin Rahmani , Claudio Castelnovo , Jeremy Schmit , Claudio Chamon