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Numerical modeling of electrodynamic aggregation is carried out for a random ensemble of magnetized nanodust taken as a many body system of strongly magnetized thin rods (i.e., one-dimensional static magnetic dipoles), which possess…

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We investigate the static and dynamic properties of a weakly polydisperse hard sphere system in the deeply supercooled state, i.e. at densities higher than that corresponding to the mode-coupling transition. The structural analysis reveals…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-27 C. Patrick Royall , Walter Kob

We study, in two space dimensions, the large-scale properties of collections of constant-speed polar point particles interacting locally by nematic alignment in the presence of noise. This minimal approach to self-propelled rods allows one…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Ginelli , F. Peruani , M. Baer , H. Chate

We investigate experimentally the relationship between local structure and dynamical arrest in a quasi-2d colloidal model system which approximates hard discs. We introduce polydispersity to the system to suppress crystallisation. Upon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-27 Elisa Tamborini , C. Patrick Royall , Pietro Cicuta

The local dynamics around a fixed point has been extensively studied for germs of one and several complex variables. In one dimension, there exist a complete picture of the trajectory of the orbits on a whole neighborhood of the fixed…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Liz Vivas

The normal modes and relaxation rates of weak colloidal gels are investigated in computations employing different models of the hydrodynamic interactions between colloids. The eigenspectrum is computed for freely draining,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Zsigmond Varga , James W. Swan

Traditional theories of the NMR autocorrelation function for intramolecular dipole pairs assume single-exponential decay, yet the calculated autocorrelation of realistic systems display a rich, multi-exponential behavior resulting in…

The dynamics of a polymer ring enclosing a constant {\sl algebraic} area is studied. The constraint of a constant area is found to couple the dynamics of the two Cartesian components of the position vector of the polymer ring through the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Arti Dua , Thomas A. Vilgis

Movements of molecular motors on cytoskeletal filaments are described by directed walks on a line. Detachment from this line is allowed to occur with a small probability. Motion in the surrounding fluid is described by symmetric random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Stefan Klumpp , Reinhard Lipowsky

Despite their considerable practical and biological applications, the link between molecular properties, assembly conditions and self-organized structure in confined polymer solutions remains elusive. Here, we explore the lyotropic nematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-21 Maxime M. C. Tortora , Daniel Jost

We measure the dynamical behavior of colloidal singlets and dumbbells on an inclined magnetic moir\'e pattern, subject to a precessing external homogeneous magnetic field. At low external field strength single colloidal particles and…

In the presented work we study, by means of numerical simulations, the behaviour of a suspension of active ring polymers in the bulk and under lateral confinement. When changing the separation between the confining planes and the polymers'…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-31 Juan Pablo Miranda-López , Emanuele Locatelli , Chantal Valeriani

We study by simulation the physics of two colloidal particles in a cholesteric liquid crystal with tangential order parameter alignment at the particle surface. The effective force between the pair is attractive at short range and favors…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-19 J. S. Lintuvuori , K. Stratford , M. E. Cates , D. Marenduzzo

The vortex dynamics in a low temperature superconductor deposited on top of a rectangular array of micrometer size permalloy triangles is investigated experimentally. The rectangular unit cell is such that neighboring triangles physically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Van de Vondel , A. V. Silhanek , V. Metlushko , P. Vavassori , B. Ilic , V. V. Moshchalkov

We study the elastic properties of a single A/B copolymer chain with a specific sequence. We predict a rich structure in the force extension relations which can be addressed to the sequence. The variational method is introduced to probe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Namkyung Lee , Thomas A. Vilgis

In this work we address a novel feature of spreading dynamics of tiny liquid droplets on solid surfaces, namely the case where the ends of the molecules feel different interactions to the surface. We consider a simple model of dimers and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Haataja , J. A. Nieminen , T. Ala-Nissila

Models of active nematics in biological systems normally require complexity arising from the hydrodynamics involved at the microscopic level as well as the viscoelastic nature of the system. Here we show that a minimal, space-independent,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-27 Emmanuel L. C. VI M. Plan , Huong Le Thi , Julia M. Yeomans , Amin Doostmohammadi

We use computer simulations and scaling arguments to investigate statistical and structural properties of a semiflexible ribbon composed of isosceles triangles. We study two different models, one where the bending energy is calculated from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris Mergell , Mohammad R. Ejtehadi , Ralf Everaers

We study the dynamics of a polymer that is pulled by a constant force through a viscoelastic medium. This is a model for a polymer being pulled through a cell by an external force, or for an active biopolymer moving due to a self generated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Hans Vandebroek , Carlo Vanderzande