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We study dynamic heterogeneities in a model glass-former whose overlap with a reference configuration is constrained to a fixed value. The system phase-separates into regions of small and large overlap, so that dynamical correlations remain…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-19 C. Cammarota , A. Cavagna , I. Giardina , G. Gradenigo , T. S. Grigera , G. Parisi , P. Verrocchio

We study the phase behaviour of a two-dimensionally confined hard sphere colloidal system in the presence of a periodic light field of two interfering laser beams using Monte Carlo simulations. For a given packing fraction of the particles,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Pinaki Chaudhuri , Ajay K. Sood , H. R. Krishnamurthy

We study the phase behavior of hard spheres confined between two parallel hard plates using extensive computer simulations. We determine the full equilibrium phase diagram for arbitrary densities and plate separations from one to five…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Fortini , Marjolein Dijkstra

Aging in an attraction-driven colloidal glass is studied by computer simulations. The system is equilibrated without attraction and instantaneously ``quenched'', at constant colloid volume fraction, to one of two states beyond the glass…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Antonio M. Puertas , Matthias Fuchs , Michael E. Cates

The influence of size differences, shape, mass and persistent motion on phase separation in binary mixtures has been intensively studied. Here we focus on the exclusive role of diffusivity differences in binary mixtures of equal-sized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-04 Simon N. Weber , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

The interplay of phase separation and dynamical arrest can lead to the formation of gels and glasses, which is relevant for such diverse fields as hard and soft condensed matter physics, materials science, food engineering and…

A systematic comparison was carried out to assess the influence of representative thermostat methods in constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations. The thermostat schemes considered include the Nos\'e--Hoover thermostat and its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Kumpei Shiraishi , Emi Minamitani , Kang Kim

Using fast confocal microscopy we image the three-dimensional dynamics of particles in a yielded hard-sphere colloidal glass under steady shear. The structural relaxation, observed in regions with uniform shear, is nearly isotropic but is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Besseling , Eric R. Weeks , A. B. Schofield , W. C. K. Poon

We consider the stationary state of a fluid comprised of inelastic hard spheres or disks under the influence of a random, momentum-conserving external force. Starting from the microscopic description of the dynamics, we derive a nonlinear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-25 W. T. Kranz , M. Sperl , A. Zippelius

We study the relaxation dynamics of flux lines in dirty high-temperature superconductors using numerical simulations of a London-Langevin model of the interacting vortex lines. By analysing the equilibrium dynamics in the vortex liquid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Sebastian Bustingorry , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Daniel Dominguez

A simple theoretical approach is used to investigate active colloids at the free interface and near repulsive substrates. We employ dynamical density functional theory to determine the steady-state density profiles in an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-03 René Wittmann , Joseph M. Brader

Particles that are immersed in a fluid exchange momentum via the fluid, hence their Brownian motion is correlated. By means of multiparticle-collision dynamics simulations we study the interactions between two colloidal beads in a sheared…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-16 Marc Radu , Tanja Schilling

Liquid-liquid phase separation of aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) is fundamental across physical and biological sciences. While well understood for passive systems, how this process is regulated by active agents such as motile bacteria…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-25 Dixi Yang , Anheng Wang , Chunming Wang , Hajime Tanaka , Jiaxing Yuan

Dry active matter systems are well-known to exhibit Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). However, in wet active systems, attractive hydrodynamic interactions mediated by active particles stalled at a boundary can introduce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Kingshuk Panja , Rajesh Singh

We investigate the dynamics of a glass forming 2D colloidal mixture and show the existence of collective motions of the particles. We introduce a mean square displacement MSD with respect to the nearest neighbors which shows remarkable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Mazoyer , F. Ebert , G. Maret , P. Keim

We study the dynamical steady-states of a monolayer of chemically active self-phoretic colloids as a function of packing fraction and self-propulsion speed by means of Brownian dynamics simulations. We focus on the case that a chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-11 Federico Fadda , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez , René van Roij , Sara Jabbari-Farouji

We show that the force generated by active enzyme molecules are strong enough to influence the dynamics of their surroundings under artificial crowded environments. We measured the behavior of polymer microparticles in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-10 Arnab Maiti , Yuki Koyano , Hiroyuki Kitahata , Krishna Kanti Dey

We investigate binary mixtures undergoing phase separation after a second (deeper) temperature quench into two- and three-phase coexistence regions. The analysis is based on a lattice theory previously developed for gas-liquid separation in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-22 Pablo de Castro , Peter Sollich

The aim of this paper is to discuss the mathematical modeling of Brownian active particle systems, a recently popular paradigmatic system for self-propelled particles. We present four microscopic models with different types of repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-31 M. Bruna , M. Burger , A. Esposito , S. M. Schulz

We use numerical simulations to study the phase behavior of self-propelled spherical and dumbbellar particles interacting via micro-phase separation inducing potentials. Our results indicate that under the appropriate conditions, it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-22 Clarion Tung , Joseph Harder , Chantal Valeriani , Angelo Cacciuto