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Mapping reaction pathways and transition states (TS) is fundamental to chemistry but computationally expensive at scale. The minimum energy pathway (MEP) dictates reaction rates and mechanisms, yet recovering it via electronic-structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Rémi Schlama , Philippe Schwaller

Asymptotic radiative transfer (ART), like diffusion theory, assumes the angular intensity distribution incident at a boundary is identical with that in the depth of the scattering medium. However, the asymptotic intensity profile and…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-06 Adrian Selden

In this paper we apply the method of Lagrangian descriptors to explore the geometrical structures in phase space that govern the dynamics of dissipative systems. We demonstrate through many classical examples taken from the nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-04 V. J. García-Garrido , J. García-Luengo

Accurately modeling chemical reactions in molecular dynamics simulations requires detailed pre- and post-reaction templates, often created through labor-intensive manual workflows. This work introduces a Python-based algorithm that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Julian Konrad , Robert Meißner

We develop an effective numerical method of studying large-time properties of reversible reaction-diffusion systems of type A + B <-> C with initially separated reactants. Using it we find that there are three types of asymptotic reaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zbigniew Koza

Reaction rates of chemical reactions under nonequilibrium conditions can be determined through the construction of the normally hyperbolic invariant manifold (NHIM) [and moving dividing surface (DS)] associated with the transition state…

We show that active transport processes in biological systems can be understood through a local equilibrium description formulated at the mesoscale, the scale to describe stochastic processes. This new approach uses the method established…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Kjelstrup , J. M. Rubi , D. Bedeaux

We propose a numerical technique for parameter inference in Markov models of biological processes. Based on time-series data of a process we estimate the kinetic rate constants by maximizing the likelihood of the data. The computation of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-02-15 Aleksandr Andreychenko , Linar Mikeev , David Spieler , Verena Wolf

Many chemical reactions can be formulated in terms of particle diffusion in a complex energy landscape. Transition path theory (TPT) is a theoretical framework for describing the direct (reaction) pathways from reactant to product states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-03 Paul C Bressloff

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic symmetry and monotonicity of positive solutions to a reaction-diffusion equation in the unit ball, utilizing techniques from elliptic geometry. Firstly, we discuss the properties of solutions in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Baiyu Liu , Wenlong Yang

Recent advances in microscopy and 3D reconstruction methods have allowed for characterization of cellular morphology in unprecedented detail, including the irregular geometries of intracellular subcompartments such as membrane-bound…

Searching for reaction pathways describing rare events in large systems presents a long-standing challenge in chemistry and physics. Incorrectly computed reaction pathways result in the degeneracy of microscopic configurations and inability…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 J. Rydzewski , O. Valsson

The phase transition kinetics of Ising gauge models are investigated. Despite the absence of a local order parameter, relevant topological excitations that control the ordering kinetics can be identified. Dynamical scaling holds in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Fong Liu

Analyzing qualitative behaviors of biochemical reactions using its associated network structure has proven useful in diverse branches of biology. As an extension of our previous work, we introduce a graph-based framework to calculate steady…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-04-28 Inom Mirzaev , David Matthew Bortz

In this paper, we study asymptotic behavior arising in inverse limit spaces of dendrites. In particular, the inverse limit is constructed with a single unimodal bonding map, for which points have unique itineraries and the critical point is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Brent Hamilton

Transition state or minimum energy path finding methods constitute a routine component of the computational chemistry toolkit. Standard analysis involves trajectories conventionally plotted in terms of the relative energy to the initial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Rohit Goswami

A reaction network is a chemical system involving multiple reactions and chemical species. Stochastic models of such networks treat the system as a continuous time Markov chain on the number of molecules of each species with reactions as…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Karen Ball , Thomas G. Kurtz , Lea Popovic , Greg Rempala

Recent advances in reaction prediction have achieved near-saturated accuracy on standard benchmarks (e.g., USPTO), yet most state-of-the-art models formulate the task as a one-shot mapping from reactants to products, offering limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yili Shen , Xiangliang Zhang

Transition path theory (TPT) offers a powerful formalism for extracting the rate and mechanism of rare dynamical transitions between metastable states. Most applications of TPT either focus on systems with modestly sized state spaces or use…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 Nils E. Strand , Schuyler B. Nicholson , Hadrien Vroylandt , Todd R. Gingrich

We study the asymptotic behavior of a diffusion process with small diffusion in a domain $D$. This process is reflected at $\partial D$ with respect to a co-normal direction pointing inside $D$. Our asymptotic result is used to study the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Wenqing Hu , Lucas Tcheuko