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We present experimental confirmation of dynamic facilitation in monodisperse and bidisperse colloidal suspensions near the glass transition volume fraction. Correlations in particle dynamics are seen to exist not only in space (clusters and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-24 Scott V. Franklin , Eric R. Weeks

In order to investigate the rheological properties of viscoelastic fluids by mesoscopic hydrodynamics methods, we develop a multi-particle collision dynamics (MPC) model for a fluid of harmonic dumbbells. The algorithm consists of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-05 Yu-Guo Tao , Ingo O. Goetze , Gerhard Gompper

We determine the propagation properties of a quantum particle in a d-dimensional lattice with hopping disorder, delta-correlated in time. The system is delocalized: the averaged transition probability shows a diffusive behavior. Then,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. C. Ferrario , V. G. Benza

The escape dynamics in a two-dimensional multiwell potential is explored. A thorough numerical investigation is conducted in several types of two-dimensional planes and also in a three-dimensional subspace of the entire four-dimensional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

The hypersphere model is a simple one-parameter model of the potential energy landscape of viscous liquids, which is defined as a percolating system of same-radius hyperspheres randomly distributed in $\mathbb{R}^{3N}$ in which $N$ is the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 Mark F. B. Railton , Eva Uhre , Jeppe C. Dyre , Thomas B. Schrøder

We have measured the temperature dependence of the longitudinal resistivity $% \rho_{xx}$ of a two-dimensional electron system in the regime of the quantum Hall plateau transition. We extracted the quantitative form of scaling function for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tao Tu , Yong-Jie Zhao , Guo-Ping Guo , Xiao-Jie Hao , Guang-Can Guo

This paper is a follow-up of the work initiated in [3], where it has been investigated the hydrodynamic limit of symmetric independent random walkers with birth at the origin and death at the rightmost occupied site. Here we obtain two…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Gioia Carinci , Anna De Masi , Cristian Giardinà , Errico Presutti

We investigate the mechanism of chain exchange in diblock copolymer micelles using two distinct yet complementary simulation techniques. First, enhanced sampling method is combined with coarse-grained molecular dynamics to compute a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Samuel Varner , Marcus Müller , Alejandro Gallegos , Timothy P. Lodge , Kevin D. Dorfman , Zhen-Gang Wang

We study the continuous time quantum walk of a single particle (initially localized at a single site) on a one-dimensional spatial lattice with complex nearest neighbour and next-nearest neighbour hopping amplitudes. Complex couplings lead…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 Hemlata Bhandari , P. Durganandini

Activity significantly enhances the escape rate of a Brownian particle over a potential barrier. Whereas constant activity has been extensively studied in the past, little is known about the effect of time-dependent activity on the escape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-10 A. Scacchi , J. M. Brader , A. Sharma

The problem of escape of a Brownian particle in a cusp-shaped metastable potential is of special importance in nonadiabatic and weakly-adiabatic rate theory for electron transfer (ET) reactions. Especially, for the weakly-adiabatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Pawel F. Gora

This study investigated the coalescence of polymer solution drops on the solid substrates. When two drops meet at their contact line on a substrate, the liquid bridge connecting the two drops increases in size with time. The height and…

Dynamics of single flexible non-Brownian fibers, tumbling in a Poiseuille flow between two parallel solid plane walls, is studied with the use of the hydromultipole numerical code, based on the multipole expansion of the Stokes equations,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Agnieszka M. Slowicka , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska , Krzysztof Sadlej , Eligiusz Wajnryb

Starting from a classical mechanics of a ``colloid particle'' and $N$ ``water molecules'', we study effective stochastic dynamics of the particle which jumps between deep potential wells. We prove that the effective transition probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-08 Hal Tasaki

We experimentally and theoretically investigate the collective behavior of three colloidal particles that are driven by a constant force along a toroidal trap. Due to hydrodynamic interactions, a characteristic limit cycle is observed. When…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Christoph Lutz , Michael Reichert , Holger Stark , Clemens Bechinger

Anisotropic macromolecules exposed to non-equilibrium (active) noise are very common in biological systems, and an accurate understanding of their anisotropic dynamics is therefore crucial. Here, we experimentally investigate the dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-08 Mehdi Shafiei Aporvari , Mustafa Utkur , Emine Ulku Saritas , Giovanni Volpe , Joakim Stenhammar

We use Stokesian Dynamics simulations to study the microscopic motion of particles suspended in fluids passing through porous media. We construct model porous media with fixed spherical particles, and allow mobile ones to move through this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Jysoo Lee , Joel Koplik

One-dimensional non-equilibrium models of particles subjected to a coagulation-diffusion process are important in understanding non-equilibrium dynamics, and fluctuation-dissipation relation. We consider in this paper transport properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jean-Yves Fortin

This short paper presents a simple approximate analytical estimate of the characteristic time of crossing a high, long and arbitrary bumpy free energy barrier in a course of chemical, biochemical or physical reaction.

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Alexei V. Finkelstein

We study a system of non-interacting active particles, propelled by colored noises, characterized by an activity time $\tau$, and confined by a double-well potential. A straightforward application of this system is the problem of barrier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-30 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Angelo Vulpiani