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We study the phase space structures that control the transport in a classical Hamiltonian model for a chemical reaction. This model has been proposed to study the yield of products in an ultracold exothermic reaction. In the considered…

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The liquid-gas density ratio is a key property of multiphase flow methods to model real fluid systems. Here, a chemical-potential multiphase lattice Boltzmann method is constructed to realize extremely large density ratios. The simulations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Binghai Wen , Liang Zhao , Wen Qiu , Yong Ye , Xiaowen Shan

We have studied the extended Hubbard model with pair hopping in the atomic limit for arbitrary electron density and chemical potential. The Hamiltonian considered consists of (i) the effective on-site interaction U and (ii) the intersite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-01 Konrad Kapcia , Stanisław Robaszkiewicz , Roman Micnas

The effects of mid-range repulsion in Lattice Boltzmann models on the coalescence/breakup behaviour of single-component, non-ideal fluids are investigated. It is found that mid-range repulsive interactions allow the formation of spray-like,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Chibbaro , G. Falcucci , G. Chiatti , H. Chen , X. Shan , S. Succi

The rapid adhesion of motile bacteria from dilute suspensions poses a fundamental non-equilibrium problem: hydrodynamic interactions bias bacterial motion near surfaces without generating stable confinement, while electrostatic interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-13 Dixi Yang , Anheng Wang , Jia Huang , Xiaofeng Zhuo , Chunming Wang , Hajime Tanaka , Jiaxing Yuan

Using a path integral approach, we derive and study the hydrodynamic equations and large deviation functions for three active lattice gases. After a review of the path integral for master equations, we first look at a one dimensional model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-17 Luke Neville

Co-existence of phase segregation and \emph{interconversion} or \emph{isomerization} reaction among molecular species leads to fascinating structure formation in biological and chemical world. Using Monte Carlo simulations of the prototype…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-07 Shubham Thwal , Suman Majumder

The sustainable production of many bulk chemicals relies on heterogeneous catalysis. The rational design or improvement of the required catalysts critically depends on insights into the underlying mechanisms at the atomic scale. In recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Amir Omranpour , Jan Elsner , K. Nikolas Lausch , Jörg Behler

Using a minimal model of active Brownian discs, we study the effect of a crucial parameter, namely the softness of the inter-particle repulsion, on motility-induced phase separation. We show that an increase in particle softness reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-19 Monika Sanoria , Raghunath Chelakkot , Amitabha Nandi

We study the influence of atomic interactions on quantum simulations in momentum-space lattices (MSLs), where driven atomic transitions between discrete momentum states mimic transport between sites of a synthetic lattice. Low energy atomic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-31 Bryce Gadway , Fangzhao Alex An , Eric J. Meier , Jackson Ang'ong'a

Markov state models (MSMs) are a powerful tool to analyze and coarse-grain complex dynamical data into interpretable kinetic processes. This capability is particularly important in heterogeneous catalysis, where a medley of reactants and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Caitlin A. McCandler , Chatipat Lorpaiboon , Timothy C. Berkelbach , Jutta Rogal

Living cells exhibit a complex organization comprising numerous compartments, among which are RNA- and protein-rich membraneless, liquid-like organelles known as biomolecular condensates. Energy-consuming processes regulate their formation…

Normal molecular dynamics simulations are usually unable to simulate chemical reactions due to the low probability of forming the transition state. Therefore, enhanced sampling methods are implemented to accelerate the occurrence of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Yi Sun , Xu Han , Lijiang Yang

The elastic interaction, induced by the lattice distortion due to the difference of the molecular size, causes an effective long-range interaction. In spin-crossover (SC) compounds, local bistable states, i.e., high-spin and low-spin states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-31 Masamichi Nishino , Seiji Miyashita

Molecule- and particle-based simulations provide the tools to test, in microscopic detail, the validity of classical nucleation theory. In this endeavour, determining nucleation mechanisms and rates for phase separation requires an…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-27 Aaron R. Finney , Matteo Salvalaglio

Quenched or frozen-in structural disorder is ubiquitous in real experimental systems. Much of the progress is achieved in understanding the phase separation of such systems using the diffusion-driven coarsening in Ising model with quenched…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-15 Rounak Bhattacharyya , Bhaskar Sen Gupta

Biomolecular condensates are formed via liquid-liquid phase separation of proteins, often together with nucleic acids, typically driven by interactions between low-affinity binding sites. The computational study of such condensates that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-16 Alena Taskina , Devika Magan , Simon Dannenberg , Stefan Klumpp

A molecular dynamics simulation of the demixing process of a binary complex plasma is analysed and the role of distinct interaction potentials is discussed by using morphological Minkowski tensor analysis of the minority phase domain growth…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Alexander Böbel , Christoph Räth

Catalytic engines can use hydrogen peroxide as a chemical fuel in order to drive motion at the microscale. The chemo-mechanical actuation is a complex mechanism based on the interrelation between catalytic reactions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 A. Afshar Farniya , M. J. Esplandiu , D. Reguera , A. Bachtold

Non-linearity and finite signal propagation speeds are omnipresent in nature, technologies, and real-world problems, where efficient ways of describing and predicting the effects of these elements are in high demand. Advances in engineering…

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