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We investigate the dynamics of a massive tracer particle coupled to an interacting active bath, modeled as a harmonic chain of overdamped active particles analytically, with an aim to understand the impact of bath interactions and activity…

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For a large class of fluids exhibiting ultrasoft bounded pair potentials, particles form crystals consisting of clusters located in the lattice sites, with a density-independent lattice constant. Here we present an investigation on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Angel J. Moreno , Christos N. Likos

We investigate the dynamics of an intruder pulled by a constant force in a dense two-dimensional granular fluid by means of event-driven molecular dynamics simulations. In a first step, we show how a propagating momentum front develops and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-29 Andrea Fiege , Matthias Grob , Annette Zippelius

We study the diffusion of a tracer particle driven out-of-equilibrium by an external force and traveling in a dense environment of arbitrary density. The system evolves on a discrete lattice and its stochastic dynamics is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou , Gleb Oshanin , Alessandro Sarracino , Raphaël Voituriez

When very small particles are suspended in a fluid in motion, they tend to follow the flow. How such tracer particles are mixed, transported, and dispersed by turbulent flow has been successfully described by statistical models. Heavy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-21 J. Bec , K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig

Using dynamical density functional theory and Brownian dynamics simulations we investigate the influence of a driven tracer particle on the density distribution of a colloidal suspension at a thermodynamic statepoint close to the liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Scacchi , J. M. Brader

We study the dynamics of shock-tracking probe particles in driven diffusive systems and also in equilibrium systems. In a driven system, they induce a diverging timescale that marks the crossover between a passive scalar regime at early…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sakuntala Chatterjee , Mustansir Barma

Using numerical simulations we study the slow dynamics of a colloidal hard-sphere fluid adsorbed in a matrix of disordered hard-sphere obstacles. We calculate separately the contributions to the single-particle dynamic correlation functions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-16 Jan Kurzidim , Daniele Coslovich , Gerhard Kahl

Soft colloids allow to explore high density states well beyond random close packing. An important open question is whether softness controls the dynamics under these dense conditions. While experimental works reported conflicting results,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-08 Nicoletta Gnan , Emanuela Zaccarelli

Behavior of the mixture of particles and dimers moving with different jump rates at reconstructed surfaces is described. Collective diffusion coefficient is calculated by the variational approach. Anisotropy of the collective particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-12 Marcin Mińkowski , Magdalena A. Załuska Kotur

Active fluids operate by constantly dissipating energy at the particle level to perform a directed motion, yielding dynamics and phases without any equilibrium equivalent. The emerging behaviors have been studied extensively, yet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-03 Étienne Fodor , Takahiro Nemoto , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We investigate the obstructed motion of tracer (test) particles in crowded environments by carrying simulations of two-dimensional Gaussian random walk in model fibrinogen monolayers of different orientational ordering. The fibrinogen…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 Michał Cieśla , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Francesc Sagués , Igor M. Sokolov

The induced diffusion of tracers in a bacterial suspension is studied theoretically and experimentally at low bacterial concentrations. Considering the swimmer-tracer hydrodynamic interactions at low-Reynolds number and using a kinetic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 G. L. Miño , J. Dunstan , A. Rousselet , E. Clement , R. Soto

Experimental studies of the diffusion of biomolecules in the environment of biological cells are routinely confronted with multiple sources of stochasticity, whose identification renders the detailed data analysis of single molecule…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Eli Barkai , R. Metzler

We investigate the diffusion of an intruder in a granular gas, with both components modeled as smooth hard spheres, both immersed in a low viscosity carrier fluid to form a particle-laden suspension. In this system, dissipative particle…

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Mesh-like structures, such as mucus gel or cytoskeleton networks, are ubiquitous in biological systems. These intricate structures are composed of cross-linked, semi-flexible bio-filaments, crucial to numerous biological processes. In many…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-10 Yeongjin Kim , Won Kyu Kim , Jae-Hyung Jeon

We show how the tracer motion of tagged, distinguishable particles can effectively describe transport in various homogeneous quantum many-body systems with constraints. We consider systems of spinful particles on a one-dimensional lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-20 Johannes Feldmeier , William Witczak-Krempa , Michael Knap

Understanding particle motion in narrow channels is essential to guide progress in numerous applications, from filtration to vascular transport. Thermal or active fluctuations of channel walls for fluid-filled channels can slow down or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-29 Yating Wang , David S. Dean , Sophie Marbach , Ruben Zakine

We consider a tracer particle on a lattice in the presence of immobile obstacles. Starting from equilibrium, a force pulling on the particle is switched on, driving the system to a new stationary state. We solve for the complete transient…

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