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Many biological processes are supported by special molecules, called motor proteins or molecular motors, that transport cellular cargoes along linear protein filaments and can reversibly associate to their tracks. Stimulated by these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-17 Akriti Jindal , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky , Arvind Kumar Gupta

We investigate the dynamics and the pathways of the collapse of a single, semiflexible polymer in a poor solvent via 3-D Brownian Dynamics simulations. Earlier work indicates that the condensation of semiflexible polymers generically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Montesi , Matteo Pasquali , F. C. MacKintosh

Semiflexible macromolecules in dilute solution under very good solvent conditions are modeled by self-avoiding walks on the simple cubic lattice ($d=3$ dimensions) and square lattice ($d=2$ dimensions), varying chain stiffness by an energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Hsiao-Ping Hsu , Kurt Binder

We study the swelling of a flexible linear chain composed of active particles by analytical theory and computer simulation. Three different situations are considered: a free chain, a chain confined to an external harmonic trap, and a chain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-31 Andreas Kaiser , Sonja Babel , Borge ten Hagen , Christian von Ferber , Hartmut Löwen

By performing lattice Boltzmann simulations of a binary mixture, we scrutinize the dynamical scaling hypothesis for the spinodal decomposition of binary mixtures for the crossover region, i.e. the region of parameters in the growth curve…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Alexander J. Wagner , M. E. Cates

In this study, we formulate a set of differential equations for a binary system to describe the secular-tidal evolution of orbital elements, rotational dynamics, and deformation (flattening), under the assumption that one body remains…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Clodoaldo Ragazzo , Lucas Ruiz dos Santos

We simulate the sintering of particle aggregates due to surface diffusion. As a method we use Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations in which elasticity can explicitly be taken into account. Therefore it is possible to investigate the shape…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Westerhoff , R. Zinetullin , D. E. Wolf

Recent computational investigations in polymeric and non-polymeric binary mixtures have reported anomalous relaxation features when both components exhibit very different mobilities. Anomalous relaxation is characterized by sublinear power…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Angel J. Moreno , Juan Colmenero

We study the dynamics of polymer chains in a bath of self-propelled particles (SPP) by extensive Langevin dynamics simulations in a two dimensional system. Specifically, we analyse the polymer looping properties versus the SPP activity and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-26 J. Shin , A. G. Cherstvy , W. K. Kim , R. Metzler

The numerical solutions of nonlocal and local Boltzmann kinetic equations for the simulation of central heavy ion reactions are parameterized in terms of time dependent thermodynamical variables in the Fermi liquid sense. This allows one to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Klaus Morawetz

We present a lattice formulation of a dynamic self-consistent field (DSCF) theory that is capable of resolving interfacial structure, dynamics and rheology in inhomogeneous, compressible melts and blends of unentangled homopolymer chains.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Maja Mihajlovic , Tak Shing Lo , Yitzhak Shnidman

The dynamical behavior of a harmonic chain in a spatially periodic potential (Frenkel-Kontorova model, discrete sine-Gordon equation) under the influence of an external force and a velocity proportional damping is investigated. We do this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Torsten Strunz , Franz-Josef Elmer

We present a detailed study of the static and dynamic behavior of long semiflexible polymer chains in a melt. Starting from previously obtained fully equilibrated high molecular weight polymer melts [{\it Zhang et al.} ACS Macro Lett. 3,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Hsiao-Ping Hsu , Kurt Kremer

We study the early stages of the shear banding instability in semidilute wormlike micelles using the non-local Johnson-Segalman model with a two-fluid coupling of the concentration (phi) to the shear rate (gamma_dot) and micellar strain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Suzanne M. Fielding , Peter D. Olmsted

We theoretically investigate the kinetics of the folding transition of a single semiflexible polymer. In the folding transition, the growth rate decrease with an increase in the number of monomers in a collapsed domain, suggesting that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Natsuhiko Yoshinaga

We develop a general analysis of the diffusive dynamics of polydisperse polymers in the presence of chemical potential gradients, within the context of the tube model (with all species entangled). We obtain a set of coupled dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Pagonabarraga , M. E. Cates

Self-assembled linear structures like giant cylindrical micelles or discotic molecules in solution stacked in flexible columns are systems reminiscent of polydisperse polymer solutions.These supramolecular polymers have an equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 C-C Huang , H. Xu , F. Crevel , J. Wittmer , J. -P. Ryckaert

We consider spin systems on the integer lattice graph $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with nearest-neighbor interactions. We develop a combinatorial framework for establishing that exponential decay with distance of spin correlations, specifically the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Antonio Blanca , Pietro Caputo , Alistair Sinclair , Eric Vigoda

We study numerically and analytically the instabilities associated with phase separation in a solid layer on which an external material ux is imposed. The first instability is localized within a boundary layer at the exposed free surface by…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 Esteban Meca , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner