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Due to the potential applications in biomedical engineering, it becomes more and more important to understand the process of engulfment and internalization of nanoparticles (NPs) by cell membranes. Despite the fact that the interaction…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Ke Xiao , Jing Li , Rui Ma , Chen-Xu Wu

Study on a rectified current induced by active particles has received a great attention due to its possible application to a microscopic motor in biological environments. Insertion of an {\em asymmetric} passive object amid many active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-19 Jae Sung Lee , Jong-Min Park , Jae Dong Noh , Hyunggyu Park

We present a geometrical description of the space of density states of a quantum system of finite dimension. After presenting a brief summary of the geometrical formulation of Quantum Mechanics, we proceed to describe the space of density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-26 J. Clemente-Gallardo , G. Marmo

We present a novel analytical approach for the calculation of the mean density of states in many-body systems made of confined indistinguishable and non-interacting particles. Our method makes explicit the intrinsic geometry inherent in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-18 Quirin Hummel , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

The penetrable-sphere model has been introduced in the literature to describe the peculiar thermodynamic behavior of some colloidal systems. In this model the interaction potential is $\phi(r)=\epsilon>0$ if the two spheres are overlapped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-10 Andres Santos

The theoretical understanding of active matter, which is driven out of equilibrium by directed motion, is still fragmental and model oriented. Stochastic thermodynamics, on the other hand, is a comprehensive theoretical framework for driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-05 Thomas Speck

We discuss stationary aspects of a set of driven lattice gases in which hard-core particles with spatial extent, covering more than one lattice site, diffuse and reconstruct in one dimension under nearest-neighbor interactions. As in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 M. D. Grynberg

We explore the well know mass deficit/surplus phenomenon in General Relativity to suggest that it could play a part in the dark matter conundrum. Specifically in collapses and condensations of matter associated with negative intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Raymond Isichei , Joao Magueijo

Abridged abstract: Inert interactions between randomly moving entities and spatial disorder play a crucial role in quantifying the diffusive properties of a system. These interactions affect only the movement of the entities, and examples…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-20 Seeralan Sarvaharman , Luca Giuggioli

Consider a system of N identical hard spherical particles moving in a d-dimensional box and undergoing elastic, possibly multi-particle, collisions. We develop a new algorithm that recovers the pre-collision state from the post-collision…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Kalyan S. Perumalla , Vladimir A. Protopopescu

We present a general analytical procedure for computing the number density of voids with radius above a given value within the context of gravitational formation of the large scale structure of the universe out of Gaussian initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Santiago G. Patiri , Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Francisco Prada

The identification of local pressure in active matter systems remains a subject of considerable debate. Through theoretical calculations and extensive simulations of various active systems, we demonstrate that intrinsic pressure (defined in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-22 Zihao Sun , Longfei Li , Chuyun Wang , Jing Wang , Huaicheng Chen , Gao Wang , Liyu Liu , Fangfu Ye , Mingcheng Yang

A spacetime is a connected 4-dimensional semi-Riemannian manifold endowed with a metric $g$ with signature $(- + + +)$. The geometry of a spacetime is described by the metric tensor $g$ and the Ricci tensor $S$ of type $(0, 2)$ whereas the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-12 R. Deszcz , A. H. Hasmani , V. G. Khambholja , A. A. Shaikh

Bound states of two interacting particles moving on a lattice can exhibit remarkable features that are not captured by the underlying single-particle picture. Inspired by this phenomenon, we introduce a novel framework by which genuine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Grazia Salerno , Giandomenico Palumbo , Nathan Goldman , Marco Di Liberto

In this paper we calculate some exact solutions of the grand partition functions for quantum gases in confined space, such as ideal gases in two- and three-dimensional boxes, in tubes, in annular containers, on the lateral surface of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wu-Sheng Dai , Mi Xie

We adopt the point of view that (Riemannian) classical and (loop-based) quantum descriptions of geometry are macro- and micro-descriptions in the usual statistical mechanical sense. This gives rise to the notion of geometrical entropy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kirill V. Krasnov

Numerous processes across both the physical and biological sciences are driven by diffusion. Partial differential equations (PDEs) are a popular tool for modelling such phenomena deterministically, but it is often necessary to use…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-25 Paul R. Taylor , Ruth E. Baker , Matthew J. Simpson , Christian A. Yates

We propose a new type of effective densities via the potential distribution theorem. These densities are for the sake of enabling the mapping of the free energy of a uniform fluid onto that of a nonuniform fluid. The potential distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-21 L. L. Lee , G. Pellicane

The two equations of motion for a test particle are compared with each other. One is in the Non commutative space involving a static rigid sphere (as a source of central force) and the other is in the usual space involving a slowly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Behrooz Malekolkalami , Awat Lotfi

The cellular uptake of nanoparticles or viruses requires that the gain of adhesion energy overcomes the cost of plasma membrane bending. It is well known that this leads to a minimal particle size for uptake. Using a simple deterministic…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-06 Felix Frey , Falko Ziebert , Ulrich S. Schwarz