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We study a model of "elastic" lattice polymer in which a fixed number of monomers $m$ is hosted by a self-avoiding walk with fluctuating length $l$. We show that the stored length density $\rho_m = 1 - <l>/m$ scales asymptotically for large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-16 Marco Baiesi , Gerard T. Barkema , Enrico Carlon

We investigate continuous-time quantum walks of two indistinguishable particles (bosons, fermions or hard-core bosons) in one-dimensional lattices with nearest-neighbour interactions. The two interacting particles can undergo independent-…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Xizhou Qin , Yongguan Ke , Xiwen Guan , Zhibing Li , Natan Andrei , Chaohong Lee

While quantum statistical mechanics triumphs in explaining many equilibrium phenomena, there is an increasing focus on going beyond conventional scenarios of thermalization. Traditionally examples of non-thermalizing systems are either…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-07 Joel Steinegger , Debasish Banerjee , Emilie Huffman , Lukas Rammelmüller

We calculate the hybrid entanglement entropy between coin and walker degrees of freedom in a non-unitary quantum walk. The model possesses a joint parity and time-reversal symmetry or PT-symmetry and supports topological phases when this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Gene M. M. Itable , Francis N. C. Paraan

We probe the character of knotting in open, confined polymers, assigning knot types to open curves by identifying their projections as virtual knots. In this sense, virtual knots are transitional, lying in between classical knot types,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-29 Keith Alexander , Alexander J Taylor , Mark R Dennis

A new master equation to mimic the dynamics of a collection of interacting random walkers in an open system is proposed and solved numerically.In this model, the random walkers interact through excluded volume interaction (single-file…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Prasanth P Jose , Biman Bagchi

It is shown that the effective string recently introduced to describe the long distance dynamics of 3D gauge systems in the confining phase has an intriguing description in terms of models of 2D self-avoiding walks in the dense phase. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Caselle , F. Gliozzi

Experimental studies of the thermal denaturation of DNA yield a strong indication that the transition is first order. This transition has been theoretically studied since the early sixties, mostly within an approach in which the microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Kafri , D. Mukamel , L. Peliti

This paper studies a polymer chain in the vicinity of a linear interface separating two immiscible solvents. The polymer consists of random monomer types, while the interface carries random charges. Both the monomer types and the charges…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Frank den Hollander , Alex A. Opoku

A centipede made of $N$ quantum walkers on a one-dimensional lattice is considered. The distance between two consecutive legs is either one or two lattice spacings, and a global constraint is imposed: the maximal distance between the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 Pascal Grange

We investigate quantum superposition effects in two-dimensional quantum walks of identical particles with different statistics under particle exchange, starting from various different initial configurations. To characterize interparticle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Gonzalo Camacho , Jasmin Meinecke , Janik Wolters

In this paper, we study discrete-time quantum walks on one-dimensional lattices. We find that the coherent dynamics depends on the initial states and coin parameters. For infinite size of lattice, we derive an explicit expression for the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Xin-Ping Xu

Stretched polymers with attractive interaction are studied in two and three dimensions. They are described by biased self-avoiding random walks with nearest neighbour attraction. The bias corresponds to opposite forces applied to the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Grassberger , Hsiao-Ping Hsu

The random walk of photons in a tight-binding lattice is known to exhibit diffusive motion similar to classical random walks under decoherence, clearly illustrating the quantum-to-classical transition. In this study, we reveal that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

Polymer chains undergoing a continuous adsorption-desorption transition are studied through extensive computer simulations. A three-dimensional self-avoiding walk lattice model of a polymer chain grafted onto a surface has been treated for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-30 P. H. L. Martins , J. A. Plascak , M. Bachmann

We obtain the solution of models of self-avoiding walks with attractive interactions on Husimi lattices built with squares. Two attractive interactions are considered: between monomers on first-neighbor sites and not consecutive along a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pablo Serra , Juergen F. Stilck , Welchy L. Cavalcanti , Kleber D. Machado

Consider a discrete-time quantum walk on the $N$-cycle subject to decoherence both on the coin and the position degrees of freedom. By examining the evolution of the density matrix of the system, we derive some new conclusions about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-20 Chaobin Liu , Nelson Petulante

We study the entanglement dynamics of discrete time quantum walks acting on bounded finite sized graphs. We demonstrate that, depending on system parameters, the dynamics may be monotonic, oscillatory but highly regular, or quasi-periodic.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Peter P. Rohde , Alessandro Fedrizzi , Timothy C. Ralph

We present an investigation of many-particle quantum walks in systems of non-interacting distinguishable particles. Along with a redistribution of the many-particle density profile we show that the collective evolution of the many-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 C. M. Chandrashekar , Th. Busch

We consider the persistent exclusion process in which a set of persistent random walkers interact via hard-core exclusion on a hypercubic lattice in $d$ dimensions. We work within the ballistic regime whereby particles continue to hop in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-23 Matthew J. Metson , Martin R. Evans , Richard A. Blythe