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We consider the lateral diffusion of a protein interacting with the curvature of the membrane. The interaction energy is minimized if the particle is at a membrane position with a certain curvature that agrees with the spontaneous curvature…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-10 Stefan M. Leitenberger , Ellen Reister-Gottfried , Udo Seifert

We consider systems of particles hopping stochastically on $d$-dimensional lattices with space-dependent probabilities. We map the master equation onto an evolution equation in a Fock space where the dynamics are given by a quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunter Schuetz , Sven Sandow

We investigate the collective dynamics of self-propelled droplets, confined in a one dimensional micro-fluidic channel. On one hand, neighboring droplets align and form large trains of droplets moving in the same direction. On the other…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 Pierre Illien , Charlotte de Blois , Yang Liu , Marjolein N. van der Linden , Olivier Dauchot

A key challenge in ultrafast science has been to directly track the coupled motions of electrons and nuclei in real-space and real-time. This study presents a significant step towards this goal by demonstrating the feasibility of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Tianyu Wang , Hui Jiang , Ming Zhang , Xiao Zou , Pengfei Zhu , Feng He , Zheng Li , Dao Xiang

Motivated by mixing processes in analytical laboratories, this work investigates enhanced dissipation in non-autonomous flows. We study the evolution of concentrations governed by the advection-diffusion equation, where the velocity field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Johannes Benthaus , Camilla Nobili

Physics-guided sampling with diffusion priors has recently shown strong performance in solving complex systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) from sparse observations. However, these methods are typically evaluated on benchmark…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Andrew Millard , Zheng Zhao , Henrik Pedersen

This work reports the results of the theoretical investigation of nonlinear dynamics and spiral wave breakup in a generalized two-variable model of cardiac action potential accounting for thermo-electric coupling and diffusion…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-07 A. Gizzi , A. Loppini , R. Ruiz-Baier , A. Ippolito , A. Camassa , A. La Camera , E. Emmi , L. Di Perna , V. Garofalo , C. Cherubini , S. Filippi

In this contribution, we will present a review of our works on the time dependence of magnetization in nanoparticle systems starting from non-interacting systems, presenting a general theoretical framework for the analysis of relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 Òscar Iglesias

Complex fluids transition from laminar to transitory flow above a critical control parameter, akin to their Newtonian counterparts. In a continuum mechanics sense, fluid elements follow the ensuing complex trajectories, giving rise to…

Particles with ligand-receptor contacts bind and unbind fluctuating "legs" to surfaces, whose fluctuations cause the particle to diffuse. Quantifying the diffusion of such "nanoscale caterpillars" is a challenge, since binding events often…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-21 Sophie Marbach , Jeana Aojie Zheng , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

The tasks of identifying separation structures and clusters in flow data are fundamental to flow visualization. Significant work has been devoted to these tasks in flow represented by vector fields, but there are unique challenges in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Matthew Berger , Joshua A. Levine

Incompressible flows can be effective mixers by appropriately advecting a passive tracer to produce small filamentation length scales. In addition, diffusion is generally perceived as beneficial to mixing due to its ability to homogenise a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-20 Christopher J. Miles , Charles R. Doering

The spreading of density fluctuations in two-dimensional driven diffusive systems is marginally anomalous. Mode coupling theory predicts that the diffusivity in the direction of the drive diverges with time as $(\ln t)^{2/3}$ with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-23 Joachim Krug , Robert A. Neiss , Andreas Schadschneider , Johannes Schmidt

We study a lattice model describing the non-equilibrium dynamics emerging from the pulling of a tracer particle through a disordered medium occupied by randomly placed obstacles. The model is considered in a restricted geometry pertinent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-09 A. Squarcini , A. Tinti , P. Illien , O. Bénichou , T. Franosch

Dispersion curves to a oscillatory reaction-diffusion system with the self-consistent flow have obtained by means of numerical calculations. The flow modulates the shape of dispersion curves and characteristics of traveling waves. The point…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyasu Yamada , Toshiyuki Nakagaki

The long-time dynamics of reaction-diffusion processes in low dimensions is dominated by fluctuation effects. The one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion process describes the kinetics of particles which freely hop between the sites of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-15 Xavier Durang , Jean-Yves Fortin , Diego Del Biondo , Malte Henkel , Jean Richert

We report development of a novel instrument to measure tracer diffusion in water under nano-scale confinement. A direct optical access to the confinement region, where water is confined between a tapered fiber and a flat substrate, is made…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-20 V. J. Ajith , Shivprasad Patil

The presence of a dispersed phase can significantly modulate the drag in turbulent systems. We derived a conserved quantity that characterizes the radial transport of azimuthal momentum in the fluid-fluid two-phase Taylor-Couette…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-20 Jinghong Su , Lei Yi , Bidan Zhao , Cheng Wang , Fan Xu , Junwu Wang , Chao Sun

Chaotic flows drive mixing and efficient transport in fluids, as well as the associated beautiful complex patterns familiar to us from our every day life experience. Generating such flows at small scales where viscosity takes over is highly…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-09 Eldad Afik , Victor Steinberg

We present the detailed analysis of the diffusive transport of spatially inhomogeneous fluid mixtures and the interplay between structural and dynamical properties varying on the atomic scale. The present treatment is based on different…

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