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The dynamical response of a tethered semiflexible polymer with self-attractive interactions and subjected to an external force field is numerically investigated by varying stiffness and self-interaction strength. The chain is confined in…
We consider a random diffusion dynamics for an infinite system of hard spheres of two different sizes evolving in $\mathbb{R}^d$, its reversible probability measure, and its projection on the subset of the large spheres. The main feature is…
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First principles methods based on periodic boundary conditions are used extensively by materials theorists. However, applying these methods to systems with confined electronic states entails the use of large unit cells in order to avoid…
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Because of the absence of indistinguishability constraint, interparticle interactions between nonidentical particles have in general much more variety than those between identical particles. In particular, it is known that there exists a…
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Biomimetic membranes in contact with a planar substrate or a second membrane are studied theoretically. The membranes contain specific adhesion molecules (stickers) which are attracted by the second surface. In the absence of stickers, the…
The aim of this paper is to discuss the mathematical modeling of Brownian active particle systems, a recently popular paradigmatic system for self-propelled particles. We present four microscopic models with different types of repulsive…
The design of contact interfaces that meet quantitatively a specified friction law (friction force vs normal force) is challenging due to the multi-scale and multi-physics nature of contact interactions. Recently, a concept was proposed to…
In the regime of lubrication approximation, we look at spreading phenomena under the action of singular potentials of the form $P(h)\approx h^{1-m}$ as $h\to 0^+$ with $m>1$, modeling repulsion between the liquid-gas interface and the…
Friction is a major source of energy loss in mechanical devices. This energy loss may be minimized by creating interfaces with extremely reduced friction, i.e. superlubricity. Conventional wisdom holds that incommensurate interface…
The phase behavior of rodlike molecules with polydisperse length and solvent-mediated attraction and repulsion is described by an extension of the Onsager theory for rigid rods. A phenomenological square-well potential is used to model…
In this work the connection established in [7, 8] between a model of two linked polymers rings with fixed Gaussian linking number forming a 4-plat and the statistical mechanics of non-relativistic anyon particles is explored. The excluded…