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The statistical mechanics of directed line-like objects, such as directed polymers in an external field, strands of dipoles in both ferro- and electrorheological fluids, and flux lines in high-$T_{\tiny C}$ superconductors bears a close…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Randall D. Kamien , David R. Nelson

We present a mathematical model of polymer bilayers that undergo large bending deformations when actuated by non-mechanical stimuli such as thermal effects. The simple model captures a large class of nonlinear bending effects and can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Soeren Bartels , Andrea Bonito , Anastasia Muliana , Ricardo H. Nochetto

In the zero temperature Brownian semi-discrete directed polymer we study the joint distribution of two last-passage times at positions ordered in the time-like direction. This is the situation when we have the slow de-correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Kurt Johansson

For directed polymers, the shape function computes the limiting average energy accrued by paths with a given average slope. We prove that, for a large family of directed polymer models in discrete time and continuous space in dimension…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Yuri Bakhtin , Douglas Dow

We investigate the ordered morphologies occurring in thin-films diblock copolymer. For temperatures above the order-disorder transition and for an arbitrary two-dimensional surface pattern, we use a Ginzburg-Landau expansion of the free…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoav Tsori , David Andelman

The directed polymer model at intermediate disorder regime was introduced by Alberts-Khanin-Quastel~\cite{AKQ12}. It was proved that at inverse temperature $\beta n^{-\gamma}$ with $\gamma=1/4$ the partition function, centered…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-04 Partha S. Dey , Nikos Zygouras

We show the existence of a force induced triple point in an interacting polymer problem that allows two zero-force thermal phase transitions. The phase diagrams for three different models of mutually attracting but self avoiding polymers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sanjay Kumar , Debaprasad Giri , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

We discuss the dynamics and thermodynamics of the Brownian Mean Field (BMF) model which is a system of N Brownian particles moving on a circle and interacting via a cosine potential. It can be viewed as the canonical version of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We consider polymers made of magnetic monomers (Ising or Heisenberg-like) in a good solvent. These polymers are modeled as self-avoiding walks on a cubic lattice, and the ferromagnetic interaction between the spins carried by the monomers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Garel , H. Orland , E. Orlandini

The Hamiltonian dynamics of chains of nonlinearly coupled particles is numerically investigated in two and three dimensions. Simple, off-lattice homopolymer models are used to represent the interparticle potentials. Time averages of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Mossa , Marco Pettini , Cecilia Clementi

We analyze the thermodynamics of the focusing discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in dimensions $d\ge 3$ with general nonlinearity $p>1$ and under a model with two parameters, representing inverse temperature and strength of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Partha S. Dey , Kay Kirkpatrick , Kesav Krishnan

We study impact of inertia on directed transport of a Brownian particle under non-equilibrium conditions: the particle moves in a one-dimensional periodic and symmetric potential, is driven by both an unbiased time-periodic force and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Aleksandra Słapik , Jerzy Łuczka , Jakub Spiechowicz

Long linear polymers in dilute solutions are known to undergo a collapse transition from a random coil (expand itself) to a compact ball (fold itself up) when the temperature is lowered, or the solvent quality deteriorates. A natural model…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Gia Bao Nguyen , Nicolas Petrelis

Brownian and fractional processes are useful computational tools for the modelling of physical phenomena. Here, modelling linear homopolymers in solution as Brownian or fractional processes, we develop a formalism to take into account both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-23 Samuel Eleutério , R. Vilela Mendes

We link the Brownian non-Gaussian diffusion of a polymer center of mass to a microscopic cause: the polymerization/depolymerization phenomenon occurring when the polymer is in contact with a monomer chemostat. The anomalous behavior is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-04 Sankaran Nampoothiri , Enzo Orlandini , Flavio Seno , Fulvio Baldovin

It is shown that when $d\ge 3$, the growing random surface generated by the $(d+1)$-dimensional directed polymer model at sufficiently high temperature, after being smoothed by taking microscopic local averages, converges to a solution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Sourav Chatterjee

The phoretic Brownian dynamics method is shown here to be an effective approach to simulate the properties of colloidal chemophoretic based systems. The method is then optimized to allow for the comparison with results from multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-17 Surabhi Jaiswal , Marisol Ripoll , Snigdha Thakur

We investigate the phase behavior of athermal polymer/nanoparticle blends near a hard substrate. We apply the density functional theory of Tripathi and Chapman to these blends. We find a first order phase transition where the nanoparticles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 E. S. McGarrity , A. L. Frischknecht , L. J. D. Frink , M. E. Mackay

We present a simple yet generic model for the behavior of a system of many surface-attached flexible polymers with rigid side chains. Beyond its potential application in describing the dynamics of the extracellular matrix of mammalian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-01 Marcel Hellmann , Youjin Deng , Matthias Weiss , Dieter W. Heermann

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) serve as a minimal model of active matter systems. When ABPs are sufficiently persistent, they undergo a liquid-gas phase separation and, in the presence of obstacles, accumulate around them, forming a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-16 Pablo Perez-Bastías , Rodrigo Soto