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Soft matters whose constituents are deformable are ubiquitous in nature especially in biological systems-including cells and their organelles-as well as in foams and emulsions. The capacity for deformation in these soft materials gives rise…

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We study direct and inverse scattering problem for systems of interacting particles, having web-like structure. Such systems consist of a finite number of semi-infinite chains attached to the central part formed by a finite number of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Isaac Alvarez-Romero , Yurii Lyubarskii

Granular hydrodynamics predicts symmetry-breaking instability in a two-dimensional (2D) ensemble of nearly elastically colliding smooth hard spheres driven, at zero gravity, by a rapidly vibrating sidewall. Super- and subcritical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Eli Livne , Baruch Meerson , Pavel V. Sasorov

We present a two channel driven lattice gas model with oppositely directed species moving on two parallel lanes with lane switching processes. We study correlated lane switching mechanism for particles so that switching may occur with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sudipto Muhuri , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

A one-dimensional driven diffusive system with two types of particles and nearest neighbors interactions has been considered on a finite lattice with open boundaries. The particles can enter and leave the system from both ends of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Farhad H. Jafarpour

Condensation transition in two-species driven systems in a ring geometry is studied in the case where current-density relation of a domain of particles exhibits two degenerate maxima. It is found that the two maximal current phases coexist…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-20 C. Godrèche , E. Levine , D. Mukamel

We investigate the phase separation mechanism of bosonic binary mixtures in spatially-fragmented traps, evidencing the emergence of phases featuring a different degree of mixing. The analysis is initially carried out by means of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-19 Vittorio Penna , Andrea Richaud

We present a study of exclusion process on a peculiar topology of network with two intersected lanes, competing for the particles in a reservoir with finite capacity. To provide a theoretical ground for our findings, we exploit mean-field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 Akriti Jindal , Arvind Kumar Gupta

A simple two-species asymmetric exclusion model in one dimension with bulk and boundary exchanges of particles is investigated for the existence of spontaneous symmetry breaking. The model is a generalization of the bridge model for which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , David Mukamel , Gunter M. Schutz

Particle transport through an open, discrete 1-D channel against a mechanical or chemical bias is analyzed within a master equation approach. The channel, externally driven by time dependent site energies, allows multiple occupation due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mario Einax , Gemma Solomon , Wolfgang Dieterich , Abraham Nitzan

We present a theory characterizing the phases emerging as a consequence of continuous symmetry-breaking in quantum and classical systems. In symmetry-breaking phases, dynamics is restricted due to the existence of a set of conserved charges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Ángel L. Corps , Jorge Dukelsky , Armando Relaño

The quantum ground state properties of two independent chains of spins (two-levels systems) interacting with the same bosonic field are theoretically investigated. Each chain is coupled to a different quadrature of the field, leading to two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 Pierre Nataf , Alexandre Baksic , Cristiano Ciuti

We investigate the stationary states of one-dimensional driven diffusive systems, coupled to boundary reservoirs with fixed particle densities. We argue that the generic phase diagram is governed by an extremal principle for the macroscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladislav Popkov , Gunter M. Schuetz

Two-phase flow systems in porous media have complex dynamics. It is well established that a wide range of system parameters like viscosities and porosity as well as flow parameters such as pressure gradient and fluid saturation have strong…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Arendt Knudsen , Alex Hansen

The influence of size differences, shape, mass and persistent motion on phase separation in binary mixtures has been intensively studied. Here we focus on the exclusive role of diffusivity differences in binary mixtures of equal-sized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-04 Simon N. Weber , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

We investigate a driven two-channel system where particles on different lanes mutually obstruct each others motion extending an earlier model by Popkov and Peschel [1]. This obstruction may occur in biological contexts due to steric…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Anna Melbinger , Tobias Reichenbach , Thomas Franosch , Erwin Frey

The melting of a binary system of charged particles confined in a {\it quasi}-one-dimensional parabolic channel is studied through Monte Carlo simulations. At zero temperature the particles are ordered in parallel chains. The melting is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 W. P. Ferreira , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

It has been well established that particulate systems show the jamming transition and critical scaling behaviors associated with it. However, our knowledge is limited to (nearly) monodisperse systems. Recently, a binary mixture of jammed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-12 Yusuke Hara , Hideyuki Mizuno , Atsushi Ikeda

Partitioning of (bio)materials in polymeric mixtures is a key phenomenon both in cellular environments, as well as in industrial applications. In cells, several macromolecules are suspended within different biomolecular phases. On the other…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 Vikki Anand Varma , Alberto Scacchi