English
Related papers

Related papers: From Particle Currents to Tracer Diffusion: Univer…

200 papers

Anomalous diffusion has been widely observed by single particle tracking microscopy in complex systems such as biological cells. The resulting time series are usually evaluated in terms of time averages. Often anomalous diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stas Burov , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Eli Barkai

We consider the unidirectional particle transport in a suspension of colloidal particles which interact with each other via a pair potential having a hard-core repulsion plus an attractive tail. The colloids are confined within a long…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-24 Andrey Pototsky , Andrew J. Archer , Sergey E. Savel'ev , Uwe Thiele , Fabio Marchesoni

We explore structural and dynamical behavior of concentrated colloidal suspensions made up by C-shape particles using Brownian dynamics computer simulations and theory. In particular, we focus on the entanglement process between nearby…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-04 Christian Hoell , Hartmut Löwen

We study the self diffusion of individual particles in dense (non-)uniform complex fluids within dynamic density functional theory and explicitly account for their coupling to the temporally fluctuating background particles. Applying the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-14 Markus Bier , Rene van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra , Paul van der Schoot

Diffusion of point-like non interacting particles in a two-dimensional (2D) channel of varying cross section is considered. The particles are biased by a constant force in the transverse direction. We apply our recurrence mapping procedure,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pavol Kalinay

We consider a one-dimensional gas of hard point particles in a finite box that are in thermal equilibrium and evolving under Hamiltonian dynamics. Tagged particle correlation functions of the middle particle are studied. For the special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anjan Roy , Onuttom Narayan , Abhishek Dhar , Sanjib Sabhapandit

A continuum model for a population of self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment is derived from an individual-based model. The methodology consists of introducing a hydrodynamic scaling of the corresponding mean-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Pierre Degond , Angelika Manhart , Hui Yu

Deformable self-propelled particles provide us with one of the most important nonlinear dissipative systems, which are related, for example, to the motion of microorganisms. It is emphasized that this is a subject of localized objects in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Tarama , Y. Itino , A. M. Menzel , T. Ohta

We present experimental results on the single file motion of a group of robots interacting with each other through position sensors. We successfully replicate the fundamental diagram typical of these systems, with a transition from free…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-14 Laciel Alonso-Llanes , Angel Garcimartín , Iker Zuriguel

In this work, we use the standard deviation of image pixel intensity to analyse the speed, direction and surface-interaction of microparticles in fluid. First, we present an analytical model for estimating the total variance in the image…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Harish Sasikumar , Manoj M. Varma

Tracer-diffusion of small molecules through dense systems of chain polymers is studied within an athermal lattice model, where hard core interactions are taken into account by means of the site exclusion principle. An approximate mapping of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Durr , T. Volz , W. Dieterich , A. Nitzan

This is the second in the series of papers on transport phenomena along random rough surfaces. We apply our simple general approach\cite{r1} to transport in very narrow channels, when the particles wavelength is comparable to the width of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Meyerovich , S. Stepaniants

Currents across thin insulators are commonly taken as single electrons moving across classically forbidden regions; this independent particle picture is well-known to describe most tunneling phenomena. Examining quantum transport from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgos Fagas , Paul Delaney , James C. Greer

We study quantum percolation which is described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian containing only off-diagonal hopping terms that are generally in quenched binary disorder (zero or one). In such a system, transmission of a quantum particle is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-09-20 Md Fhokrul Islam , Hisao Nakanishi

We analyze the diffusive transport of Brownian particles in narrow channels with periodically varying cross-section. The geometrical confinements lead to entropic barriers, the particle has to overcome in order to proceed in transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-06 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , Y. Li , P. Hanggi

We consider the single-file dynamics of $N$ identical random walkers moving with diffusivity $D$ in one dimension (walkers bounce off each other when attempting to overtake). Additionally, we require that the separation between neighboring…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-03 Santos Bravo Yuste , A. Baumgaertner , E. Abad

We discuss a simple model of particles hopping in one dimension with attractive interactions. Taking a hydrodynamic limit in which the interaction strength increases with the system size, we observe the formation of multiple clusters of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-05 Matthew Burman , Daniel Carpenter , Robert L. Jack

Simulating percolation and critical phenomena of labelled species inside films composed of single-component linear homogeneous macromolecules using molecular Monte Carlo method in 3 dimensions, we study dependence of these conducting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-05 Yuki Norizoe , Hiroshi Morita

Using molecular dynamics simulations we study the slow dynamics of a hard sphere fluid confined in a disordered porous matrix. The presence of both discontinuous and continuous glass transitions as well as the complex interplay between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Jan Kurzidim , Daniele Coslovich , Gerhard Kahl

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measures how a single electron with definite energy propagates between a sample surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. In the simplest description, the differential conductance measured is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Mikko M. Ervasti , Fabian Schulz , Peter Liljeroth , Ari Harju