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Based on a coarse-grained model, we carry out molecular dynamics simulations to analyze the diffusion of a small tracer particle inside a cylindrical channel whose inner wall is covered with randomly grafted short polymeric chains. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-20 Rajarshi Chakrabarti , Stefan Kesselheim , Peter Kosovan , Christian Holm

A solution of the scattering problem is obtained for the Schr\"odinger equation with the potential of induced dipole interaction, which decreases as the inverse square of the distance. Such a potential arises in the collision of an incident…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 V. A. Gradusov , S. L. Yakovlev

A novel thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is derived for compressible electrolytes with phase transitions. The fluid mixtures may consist of N constituents with the phases liquid and vapor, where both phases may coexist.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Wolfgang Dreyer , Jan Giesselmann , Christiane Kraus

Based on an analytic approach, we present a theoretical review on the absorption, scattering, and extinction of both dipole scatterers and regular arrays composed of such scatterers i.e., metasurfaces. Besides offering a tutorial by…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-06 Rasoul Alaee , Mohammad Albooyeh , Carsten Rockstuhl

The radiation (reaction, Robin) boundary condition for the continuum diffusion equation is widely used in chemical and biological applications to express reactive boundaries. The underlying trajectories of the diffusing particles are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-09-02 A. Singer , Z. Schuss , D. Holcman

We consider the trapping reaction, $A+B\to B$, where $A$ and $B$ particles have a diffusive dynamics characterized by diffusion constants $D_A$ and $D_B$. The interaction with $B$ particles can be formally incorporated in an effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Anton , R. A. Blythe , A. J. Bray

In this paper we present a mathematical model for the electrochemical deposition aimed at the production of inverse opals. The real system consists of an arrangement of sub micrometer spheres, through which the species in an electrolytic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 P. C. T. D'Ajello , L. Lauck , G. L. Nunes

The adsorption behavior of ions at liquid-vapor interfaces exhibits several unexpected yet generic features. In particular, energy and entropy are both minimum when the solute resides near the surface, for a variety of ions in a range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-08 Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan , Patrick R. Shaffer , Phillip L. Geissler

We propose a model for diffusion-limited annihilation of two species, $A+B\to A$ or $B$, where the motion of the particles is subject to a drift. For equal initial concentrations of the two species, the density follows a power-law decay for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-12 Daniel ben-Avraham , Vladimir Privman , Dexin Zhong

We develop the scattering formalism to calculate the interaction between colloidal particles trapped at a fluid interface. Since, in addition to the interface, the colloids may also fluctuate in this system, we implement the fluctuation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Ehsan Noruzifar , Jef Wagner , Roya Zandi

The scattering theory of transport has to be applied with care in a diffuse environment. Here we discuss how the scattering matrices of heterointerfaces can be used to compute interface resistances of dirty magnetic multilayers. First…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Kees M. Schep , Ke Xia , Paul J. Kelly

Problems involving the capture of a moving entity by a trap occur in a variety of physical situations, the moving entity being an electron, an excitation, an atom, a molecule, a biological object such as a receptor cluster, a cell, or even…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Spendier , S. Sugaya , V. M. Kenkre

We consider the Asakura-Oosawa model of hard sphere colloids and ideal polymers in contact with a porous matrix modeled by immobilized configurations of hard spheres. For this ternary mixture a fundamental measure density functional theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul P. F. Wessels , Matthias Schmidt , Hartmut Löwen

We investigate the critical behavior of a reaction-diffusion system exhibiting a continuous absorbing-state phase transition. The reaction-diffusion system strictly conserves the total density of particles, represented as a non-diffusive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

A model-potential approach to calculating positron-molecule binding energies and annihilation rates is developed. Unlike existing ab initio calculations, which have mostly been applied to strongly polar molecules, the present methodology…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 A. R. Swann , G. F. Gribakin

A problem to account for the direct electron-positron annihilation in positron-hydrogen scattering above the positronium formation threshold has been resolved within the time independent formalism. The generalization of the optical theorem…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-02-03 S L Yakovlev , C-Y Hu , D Caballero

We develop a model for the reflection and transmission of plane waves by an isotropic layer sandwiched between two uniaxial crystals of arbitrary orientation. In the laboratory frame, reflection and transmission coefficients corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-29 Erik S. Thomson , Larry A. Wilen , John S. Wettlaufer

The optical interaction of light and matter is modeled as an oscillating dipole in a plane wave. We analyze absorption, scattering and extinction for this system by the energy flow, which is depicted by streamlines of the Poynting vector.…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-05 Moritz Striebel , Jeff F. Young , Jörg Wrachtrup , Ilja Gerhardt

The dynamics of solid-liquid interfaces controlled by solute precipitation and/or dissolution due to the chemical reaction at the interface were computed in two dimensions using a phase field models. Sharp-interface asymptotic analysis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Zhijie Xu , Hai Huang , Xiaoyi Li , Paul Meakin

We analyze the role of the interplay between on-site interaction and inhomogeneous diffusion on the phenomenon of condensation in the zero-range process. We predict a universal phase diagram in the plane of two exponents, respectively…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-17 C. Godreche , J. M. Luck