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The viscosity of glass-forming liquids increases by many orders of magnitude if their temperature is lowered by a mere factor of 2-3 [1,2]. Recent studies suggest that this widespread phenomenon is accompanied by spatially heterogeneous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-28 Walter Kob , Sandalo Roldan-Vargas , Ludovic Berthier

New experimental results and their physical analysis are presented to clarify the behavior of a relatively stable self-arranged droplet cluster levitating over the locally heated water surface. An external electric field of both opposite…

Single-particle momentum spectra for a dynamically evolving one-dimensional Bose gas are analysed in the semi-classical wave limit. Representing one of the simplest correlation functions these give information about possible universal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-06 Maximilian Schmidt , Sebastian Erne , Boris Nowak , Dénes Sexty , Thomas Gasenzer

The non-exponential character of the structural relaxation is considered one of the hallmarks of the glassy dynamics and in this context, the singular shape observed by dielectric techniques has attracted the attention of the community for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-17 Silvia Arrese-Igor , Angel Alegria , Juan Colmenero

We report an experimental study on the manipulation of colloidal particles in a drop sitting on a hydrogel. The manipulation is achieved by diffusiophoresis, which describes a directed motion of particles induced by solute gradients. By…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-17 François Boulogne , Sangwoo Shin , Julien Dervaux , Laurent Limat , Howard A. Stone

In molecular liquids such as water, time-delayed influences between microscopic or mesoscopic variables are typically probed using time-correlation functions, which are symmetric under detailed balance and therefore blind to dynamical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Leon Huet , Vittorio Del Tatto , Debarshi Banerjee , Alessandro Laio , Ali A. Hassanali

We investigate the kinetics of bubble coarsening in a single component Lennard-Jones fluid using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. A homogeneous high-temperature system is quenched below the critical temperature to induce the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-29 Parameshwaran A , Bhaskar Sen Gupta

Over the last decade, an increasing body of evidence has emerged, supporting the existence of a metastable liquid-liquid critical point in supercooled water, whereby two distinct liquid phases of different densities coexist. Analysing long…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-20 Cesare Malosso , Natalia Manko , Maria Grazia Izzo , Stefano Baroni , Ali Hassanali

Contacts between particles in dense, sheared suspensions are believed to underpin much of their rheology. Roughness and adhesion are known to constrain the relative motion of particles, and thus globally affect the shear response, but an…

A mechanism for self propulsion of deformable vesicle has been proposed, vesicle moves by sensing the self-generated chemical gradient. Like many molecular motors they suffer strong perturbations from the environment in which they move as a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Shivam Gupta , Sreeja K. K. , Snigdha Thakur

Vortices in electron fluids are a key indicator of electron hydrodynamics. However, a comprehensive framework linking macroscopic vorticity measurements with microscopic interactions and scattering mechanisms has been lacking. We employ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Khachatur G. Nazaryan , Leonid Levitov

The velocity relaxation of an impulsively forced spherical particle in a fluid confined by two parallel plane walls is studied using a direct numerical simulation approach. During the relaxation process, the momentum of the particle is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rei Tatsumi , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Advances in high-precision dielectric spectroscopy has enabled access to non-linear susceptibilities of polar molecular liquids. The observed non-monotonic behavior has been claimed to provide strong support for theories of dynamic arrest…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-07 Thomas Speck

In a preceding paper, Mukhopadhyay and I studied the diffusive motion of a tagged molecule in a heterogeneous glass-forming liquid at temperatures just above a glass transition. Among other features of this system, we postulated a relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Langer

Understanding the pressure-dependent dielectric properties of water is crucial for a wide range of scientific and practical applications. In this study, we employ a deep neural network trained on density functional theory data to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Yizhi Song , Xifan Wu

We derive macroscopic dynamics for self-propelled particles in a fluid. The starting point is a coupled Vicsek-Stokes system. The Vicsek model describes self-propelled agents interacting through alignment. It provides a phenomenological…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-20 Pierre Degond , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Fabien Vergnet , Hui Yu

We study the model of a molecular switch comprised of a molecule with a soft vibrational degree of freedom coupled to metallic leads. In the presence of strong electron-ion interaction, different charge states of the molecule correspond to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Fabio Pistolesi , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Ivar Martin

The thermal expansion of a fluid combined with a temperature-dependent viscosity introduces nonlinearities in the Navier-Stokes equations unrelated to the convective momentum current. The couplings generate the possibility for net fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Franz M. Weinert , Jonas A. Kraus , Thomas Franosch , Dieter Braun

Slow dynamics of difluorotetrachloroethane in both supercooled plastic crystal and supercooled liquid states have been investigated from Molecular Dynamics simulations. The temperature and wave-vector dependence of collective dynamics in…

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