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We discuss the notion of nonequilibrium chemical potential in gases of non-interacting active particles filling two compartments separated by a potential energy barrier. Different types of active particles are considered: run-and-tumble…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-11 Jules Guioth , Eric Bertin

We study dynamic heterogeneities in a model glass-former whose overlap with a reference configuration is constrained to a fixed value. The system phase-separates into regions of small and large overlap, so that dynamical correlations remain…

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The applicability of theories describing the kinetic evolution of fluid mixtures depends on the underlying physical assumptions. The Maxwell-Stefan equations, widely used for miscible fluids, express forces depending on coupled fluxes. They…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Olivier J. J. Ronsin , Jens Harting

A global hybrid extension of variational two-electron reduced-density matrix (v2RDM)-driven multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MCPDFT) is developed. Using a linear decomposition of the electron-electron repulsion term, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Mohammad Mostafanejad , Marcus Dante Liebenthal , A. Eugene DePrince

We study a two-dimensional granular system where external driving force is applied to each particle in the system in such a way that the system is driven into a steady state by balancing the energy input and the dissipation due to inelastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gongwen Peng , Takao Ohta

We present dynamical density functional theory results for the time evolution of the density distribution of a sedimenting model two-dimensional binary mixture of colloids. The interplay between the bulk phase behaviour of the mixture, its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexandr Malijevsky , Andrew J. Archer

In this paper the massless NJL model extended by the diquark interaction channel is considered. We study its phase structure at zero temperature and in the presence of baryon $\mu_B$, isospin $\mu_I$, chiral $\mu_{5}$ and chiral isospin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-13 T. G. Khunjua , K. G. Klimenko , R. N. Zhokhov

Isotropic pair potentials that are bounded at the origin have been proposed from time to time as models of the effective interaction between macromolecules of interest in the chemical physics of soft matter. We present a thorough study of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-05 S. Prestipino , C. Speranza , G. Malescio , P. V. Giaquinta

The evolution of particulate and multiphase systems can transition from dynamic regimes, governed by classical transport equations with well-defined damping coefficients, to anomalously slow relaxation described by rate equations when the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-20 Carlos E. Colosqui

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase segregation processes in binary mixtures. In recent times, various dynamic boundary conditions have been introduced to model interactions of the materials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

These lecture notes describe a basic theory of chemically active droplets, which are droplets kept away from equilibrium by driven chemical reactions. The notes assume a basic familiarity with equilibrium thermodynamics of phase separation,…

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Understanding the asymptotic behavior of reaction-diffusion (RD) systems is crucial for modeling processes ranging from species coexistence in ecology to biochemical interactions within cells. In this work, we analyze RD systems in which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Carlos Barajas , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Domitilla Del Vecchio

Dynamical polydispersity in single-particle properties, for example a fluctuating particle size, shape, charge density, etc., is intrinsic to responsive colloids (RCs), such as biomacromolecules or microgels, but is typically not resolved…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Upayan Baul , Joachim Dzubiella

An existence result is proved for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial conditions.…

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We investigate a new diffuse-interface model that describes creeping two-phase flows (i.e., flows exhibiting a low Reynolds number), especially flows that permeate a porous medium. The system of equations consists of a Brinkman equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Pierluigi Colli , Patrik Knopf , Giulio Schimperna , Andrea Signori

Thermodynamics and dynamics of a classical two-dimensional system with dipole-like isotropic repulsive interactions are studied systematically using extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations supplemented by appropriate theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Sergey Khrapak , Nikita Kryuchkov , Stanislav Yurchenko

The contact process with diffusion (PCPD) defined by the binary reactions 2 B -> 3 B, 2 B -> 0 and diffusive particle spreading exhibits an unusual active to absorbing phase transition whose universality class has long been disputed.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Shengfeng Deng , Wei Li , Uwe C. Täuber

We present a systematic theory of chemically active emulsions in the hydrodynamic limit by constructing a thermodynamically consistent framework in which the equilibrium is broken by chemo-stating of fuel molecules. For ternary solutions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-21 Efe Ilker , Kathrin Laxhuber , Jean-Francois Joanny , Frank Jülicher

In this paper we review a series of results obtained for 1D and 2D simple N-body dynamical models with infinite-range attractive interactions and without short distance singularities. The free energy of both models can be exactly obtained…

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