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In dense systems of hard-interacting colloidal particles having anisotropic shapes, crystallization pathways represent an interesting frontier. The translational and rotational dynamics of such particles become coupled at higher densities,…

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Equilibrium statistical mechanics provides a robust framework for characterizing phase transitions in systems whose microsopic dynamics are time-reversible. Efforts to develop and validate theoretical frameworks for time-irreversible,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-18 Stuart J. Thomson , Jack-William Barotta , Daniel M. Harris

We show that Brownian motion is spatially not symmetric for mesoscopic particles embedded in a fluid if the particle is not in thermal equilibrium and its shape is not spherical. In view of applications on molecular motors in biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Susan Sporer , Christian Goll , Klaus Mecke

We perform detailed computational and experimental measurements of the driven dynamics of a dense, uniform suspension of sedimented microrollers driven by a magnetic field rotating around an axis parallel to the floor. We develop a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-03 Brennan Sprinkle , Ernest B. van der Wee , Yixiang Luo , Michelle Driscoll , Aleksandar Donev

In nonequilibrium statistical physics, quantifying the nearest (and higher-order) neighbors and free volumes of particles in many-body systems is crucial to elucidating the origin of macroscopic collective phenomena, such as glass/granular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Daigo Mugita , Kazuyoshi Souno , Hiroaki Koyama , Taisei Nakamura , Masaharu Isobe

As a first approximation, the forces acting on optically trapped particles are commonly assumed to be conservative. The influence of the nonconservative force has been shown to be negligible in overdamped liquid environments. However, its…

We extend the one-body phase function upper bound on the superfluid fraction in a periodic solid (a spatially ordered supersolid) to include two-body phase correlations. The one-body current density is no longer proportional to the gradient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wayne M. Saslow , Davide E. Galli , Luciano Reatto

We study certain significant properties of the equilibrium configurations of a rigid body subject to an undamped elastic restoring force, in the stream of a viscous liquid in an unbounded 3D domain. The motion of the coupled system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Denis Bonheure , Giovanni P. Galdi , Filippo Gazzola

We consider a finite or countable collection of one-dimensional Brownian particles whose dynamics at any point in time is determined by their rank in the entire particle system. Using Transportation Cost Inequalities for stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Soumik Pal , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

Elastic confinements are an important component of many biological systems and dictate the transport properties of suspended particles under flow. In this chapter, we review the Brownian motion of a particle moving in the vicinity of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-28 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Stephan Gekle

The force on a probe induced by a nonequilibrium medium is in general nongradient. We detail the mechanism of that feature via nonequilibrium response theory. The emergence of nongradient forces is due to a systematic "twist" of the excess…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-28 Christian Maes , Karel Netočný

We synthesize colloidal particles with various anisotropic shapes and track their orientationally resolved Brownian trajectories using confocal microscopy. An analysis of appropriate short-time correlation functions provides direct access…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Daniela J. Kraft , Raphael Wittkowski , Borge ten Hagen , Kazem V. Edmond , David J. Pine , Hartmut Löwen

In this Letter, we clarify the physical origin of effective transport in periodic and tilted periodic systems. When Brownian dynamics is examined on the scale of a single period, the particle displacement admits a natural separation into a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Sang Yang , Zhixin Peng

We consider a generic system operating under non-equilibrium conditions. Explicitly, we consider an inertial classical Brownian particle dwelling a periodic structure with a spatially broken reflection symmetry. The particle is coupled to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 P. Hänggi , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

Using Newtonian and Brownian dynamics simulations, the structural and transport properties of hard and soft spheres have been studied. The soft spheres were modeled using inverse power potentials ($V\sim r^{-n}$, with $1/n$ the potential…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Erik Lange , Jose B. Caballero , Antonio M. Puertas , Matthias Fuchs

For homogeneous and isotropic linearly elastic solids and for incompressible fluids under low-Reynolds-number conditions the fundamental solutions of the associated continuum equations were derived a long time ago for bulk systems. That is,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-21 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Lukas Fischer , Marc Pradas , Andreas M. Menzel

A Langevin equation is proposed to describe the transport of overdamped Brownian particles in a periodic rough potential and driven by an unbiased periodic force. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation by using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-05 Peng Wang , Yang Zhang , Peng-Juan Zhang , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang

By means of classical density functional theory and its dynamical extension, we consider a colloidal fluid with spherically-symmetric competing interactions, which are well known to exhibit a rich bulk phase behavior. This includes complex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-11 Daniel Stopper , Roland Roth

We use numerical simulations to study the flow of athermal, frictionless, soft-core two dimensional spherocylinders driven by a uniform steady-state simple shear applied at a fixed volume and a fixed finite strain rate $\dot\gamma$. Energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-30 Theodore A. Marschall , S. Teitel