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A polymer chain pinned in space exerts a fluctuating force on the pin point in thermal equilibrium. The average of such fluctuating force is well understood from statistical mechanics as an entropic force, but little is known about the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-22 James T. Waters , Harold D. Kim

We consider the drift of a polymer chain in a disordered medium, which is caused by a constant force applied to the one end of the polymer, under neglecting the thermal fluctuations. In the lowest order of the perturbation theory we have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Semjon Stepanow , Michael Schulz

While the dynamics of polymer chains in equilibrium media is well understood by now, the polymer dynamics in active non-equilibrium environments can be very different. Here we study the dynamics of polymers in a viscous medium containing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-23 Jaeoh Shin , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Won Kyu Kim , Vasily Zaburdaev

Self-diffusion of a polymer chain in a melt is studied by Monte Carlo simulations of the bond fluctuation model, where only the excluded volume interaction is taken into account. Polymer chains, each of which consists of $N$ segments, are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Katsumi Hagita , Hiroshi Takano

We study the statistical and dynamic properties of the systems characterized by an ultrametric space of states and translationary non-invariant symmetric transition matrices of the Parisi type subjected to "locally constant" randomization.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. Avetisov , A. Kh. Bikulov , S. K. Nechaev

We present an exactly solvable model of a Gaussian (flexible) polymer chain in a quenched random medium. This is the case when the random medium obeys very long range quadratic correlations. The model is solved in $d$ spatial dimensions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Yohannes Shiferaw , Yadin Y. Goldschmidt

We perform a time-dependent study of the driven dynamics of overdamped particles which are placed in a one-dimensional, piecewise linear random potential. This set-up of spatially quenched disorder then exerts a dichotomous varying random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-14 S. I. Denisov , M. Kostur , E. S. Denisova , P. Hänggi

Diffusion properties of a self-avoiding polymer embedded in regularly distributed obstacles with spacing a=20 and confined in two dimensions is studied numerically using the extended bond fluctuation method which we have developed recently.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryuzo Azuma , Hajime Takayama

The wormlike chain model of stiff polymers is a nonlinear $\sigma$-model in one spacetime dimension in which the ends are fluctuating freely. This causes important differences with respect to the presently available theory which exists only…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Kleinert , A. Chervyakov

We obtain the entropy of flexible linear chains composed of M monomers placed on the square lattice using a transfer matrix approach. An excluded volume interaction is included by considering the chains to be self-and mutually avoiding, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. G. Dantas , J. F. Stilck

We consider a system of non-interacting fermions in one dimension subject to a single-particle potential consisting of (a) a strong optical lattice, (b) a harmonic trap, and (c) uncorrelated on-site disorder. After a quench, in which the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-05 Maximilian Schulz , Roderich Moessner , C. A. Hooley

We study spatial pattern formation and energy localization in the dynamics of an anharmonic chain with quadratic and quartic intersite potential subject to an optical, sinusoidally oscillating field and a weak damping. The zone-boundary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Ramaz Khomeriki , Stefano Lepri , Stefano Ruffo

This study focuses on comparing the individual polymer chain dynamics in an entangled polymeric liquid under different shear and extension rates. Polymer chains under various shear rates and extension rates were simulated using a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Behrouz Behdani , Tong Mou , Cody Spratt , Slava Butcovich , Ryan Gettler , Joontaek Park

We propose a lattice model to study the dynamics of a driven interface in a medium with random pinning forces. For driving forces F smaller than a threshold force F_c the whole interface gets pinned. The depinning transition can be…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Heiko Leschhorn

We study the dynamics of the passage of a polymer through a membrane pore (translocation), focusing on the scaling properties with the number of monomers $N$. The natural coordinate for translocation is the number of monomers on one side of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeffrey Chuang , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

We study far from equilibrium transport of a periodically driven inertial Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential. As detected recently for a SQUID ratchet dynamics (Spiechowicz J. & Luczka J. Phys. Rev. E 91, 062104 (2015)), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Ianniruberto and Marrucci developed a theory whereby entangled branched polymers behave like linear ones in fast elongational flows. In order to test such prediction, Huang et al. performed elongational measurements on star polymer melts,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-20 Yuichi Masubuchi , Giovanni Ianniruberto , Giuseppe Marrucci

We present a general framework to study the distribution of the flux through the origin up to time $t$, in a non-interacting one-dimensional system of particles with a step initial condition with a fixed density $\rho$ of particles to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Tirthankar Banerjee , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

In this paper we investigate the conformation statistics of a Gaussian chain embedded in a medium of finite size, in the presence of quenched random obstacles. The similarities and differences between the case of random obstacles and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Yadin Y. Goldschmidt , Yohannes Shiferaw

We study self avoiding random walks in an environment where sites are excluded randomly, in two and three dimensions. For a single polymer chain, we study the statistics of the time averaged monomer density and show that these are well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 J. M. Deutsch , M. Olvera de la Cruz