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We use computer simulations to study the relaxation dynamics of a model for oil-in-water microemulsion droplets linked with telechelic polymers. This system exhibits both gel and glass phases and we show that the competition between these…

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We consider the trajectories of particles diffusing between two infinite baths of fixed concentrations connected by a channel, e.g. a protein channel of a biological membrane. The steady state influx and efflux of Langevin trajectories at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Nadler , Z. Schuss , A. Singer

The spatial correlations of entangled polymer dynamics are examined by molecular dynamics simulations and neutron spin-echo spectroscopy. Due to the soft nature of topological constraints, the initial spatial decays of intermediate…

Fourier acceleration has been successfully applied to the simulation of lattice field theories for more than a decade. In this paper, we extend the method to the dynamics of discrete particles moving in continuum. Although our method is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Francis J. Alexander , Bruce M. Boghosian , Richard C. Brower , S. Roy Kimura

We investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation through a nanopore using two-dimensional Langevin dynamics simulations. In the absence of external driving force, we consider a polymer which is initially placed in the middle of the pore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilkka Huopaniemi , Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying

We study the thermal Markovian diffusion of tracer particles in a 2D medium with spatially-varying diffusivity $D(r)$, mimicking recently measured, heterogeneous maps of the apparent diffusion coefficient in biological cells. For this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Andrey G. Cherstvy , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

The Generalized Elastic Model (GEM) provides the evolution equation which governs the stochastic motion of several many-body systems in nature, such as polymers, membranes, growing interfaces. On the other hand a probe (\emph{tracer})…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-16 Alessandro Taloni , Aleksei Chechkin , Joseph Klafter

The transport of particles in cells is influenced by the properties of intracellular networks they traverse while searching for localized target regions or reaction partners. Moreover, given the rapid turnover in many intracellular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Lachlan Elam , Mónica C. Quiñones-Frías , Ying Zhang , Avital A. Rodal , Thomas G. Fai

Optical tracking in vivo experiments reveal that diffusion of particles in biological cells is strongly enhanced in the presence of ATP and the experimental data for animal cells could previously be reproduced within a phenomenological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-22 Kento Yasuda , Ryuichi Okamoto , Shigeyuki Komura , Alexander S. Mikhailov

We study the dynamics of the contact-process, one of the simplest nonequilibrium stochastic processes, taking place on a scale-free network. We consider the network topology as annealed, i.e. all links are rewired at each microscopic time…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Marian Boguna , Claudio Castellano , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

In this work, we explore the dynamics of active entangled chains using molecular dynamics simulations of a modified Kremer-Grest model. The active chains are diluted in a mesh of very long passive linear chains, to avoid constraint release…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-01 Andres R. Tejedor , Raquel Carracedo , Jorge Ramírez

A key task in Bayesian machine learning is sampling from distributions that are only specified up to a partition function (i.e., constant of proportionality). One prevalent example of this is sampling posteriors in parametric distributions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Rong Ge , Holden Lee , Andrej Risteski

In this article, we introduce a generalization of the diffusive motion of point-particles in a turbulent convective flow with given correlations to a polymer or membrane. In analogy to the passive scalar problem we call this the passive…

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We use Langevin dynamics simulations to study dynamical behaviour of a dense planar layer of active semi-flexible filaments. Using the strength of active force and the thermal persistence length as parameters, we map a detailed phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-21 K. R. Prathyusha , Silke Henkes , Rastko Sknepnek

Temporal networks are widely used models for describing the architecture of complex systems. Network memory -- that is the dependence of a temporal network's structure on its past -- has been shown to play a prominent role in diffusion,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-28 Oliver E. Williams , Lucas Lacasa , Ana P. Millán , Vito Latora

An exact solution of coarse-grained polymer models with fluctuating internal friction and hydrodynamic interactions has not been proposed so far due to a one-to-all coupling between the connector vector velocities that precludes the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 R. Kailasham , Rajarshi Chakrabarti , J. Ravi Prakash

In this work we study the noise induced effects on the dynamics of short polymers crossing a potential barrier, in the presence of a metastable state. An improved version of the Rouse model for a flexible polymer has been adopted to mimic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Pizzolato , A. Fiasconaro , B. Spagnolo

We analyze the diffusion of charged and neutral tracers suspended in an electrolyte embedded in a channel of varying cross-section. Making use of systematic approximations, the diffusion equation governing the motion of tracers is mapped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-17 Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Miguel J Rubi

We characterize the fluctuation properties of a polymer chain under external tension and the fluctuation-induced forces between two ring molecules threaded around the chain. The problem is relevant in the context of fluctuation-induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-15 F. M. Gilles , R. Llubaroff , C. Pastorino

We consider one-dimensional systems comprising either active run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) or passive Brownian random walkers. These particles are either noninteracting or have hardcore exclusions. We study the dynamics of a single tracer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-11 Tirthankar Banerjee , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates