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Adsorption of dimers is modelled using random sequential adsorption algorithm. The interaction between molecules is given by screened electrostatic potential. The paper focuses on the properties of adsorbed monolayers as well as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-14 Michal Ciesla , Jakub Barbasz

Elucidating the physics of a concentrated suspension of ring polymers, or of an ensemble of ring polymers in a complex environment, is an important outstanding question in polymer physics. Many of the characteristic features of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-09 Davide Michieletto , Enzo Orlandini , Davide Marenduzzo , Matthew S. Turner

The self-organization of active particles is governed by their dynamic effective interactions. Such interactions are controlled by the medium in which such active agents reside. Here, we study the interactions between active agents in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-08 J. L. Aragones , J. P. Steimel , A. Alexander-Katz

We use the mapping between Burgers' equation and the problem of a directed polymer in a random medium in order to study the fully developped turbulence in the $N$ dimensional forced Burgers' equation. The stirring force corresponds to a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. P. Bouchaud , M. Mezard , G. Parisi

The distance-resolved effective interaction between two star polymers in a good solvent is calculated by Molecular Dynamics computer simulations. The results are compared with a pair potential proposed recently by Likos et al. [Phys. Rev.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Jusufi , M. Watzlawek , H. Loewen

We analyze the diffraction regime of the Kapitza-Dirac effect for particles entangled in momentum. The detection patterns show two-particle interferences. In the single-mode case we identify a discontinuity in the set of joint detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pedro Sancho

We calculate the non-retarded dispersion force exerted on an electrically polarizable quantum particle by a perfectly conducting toroid, which is one of the most common objects exhibiting a non-trivial topology. We employ a convenient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 P. P. Abrantes , Yuri França , Reinaldo de Melo e Souza , F. S. S. da Rosa , C. Farina

Based on transfer matrix techniques and finite size scaling, we study the oriented polymer (self-avoiding walk) with nearest neighbor interaction. In the repulsive regime, various critical exponents are computed and compared with exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 W. M. Koo

The conformational and dynamical properties of active ring polymers are studied by numerical simulations. The two-dimensionally confined polymer is modeled as a closed bead-spring chain, driven by tangential forces, put in contact with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 A. Lamura

We study the thermodynamics of an exactly solvable model of a self-interacting partially directed self-avoiding walk (DSAW) in two dimensions, when a force is applied on one end of the chain. The critical force for the unfolding is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rosa , D. Marenduzzo , A. Maritan , F. Seno

Understanding electron correlation requires solving inseparable Schrodinger equation. In general, inseparable Schr\"odinger equations cannot be solved analytically. So their solutions are obtained numerically. In this paper we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Shivani Verma , Aniruddha Chakraborty

Exact solution of Dirac equation for a particle whose potential energy and mass are inversely proportional to the distance from the force centre has been found. The bound states exist provided the length scale $a$ which appears in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. O. Vakarchuk

This paper leads with a random polymer model in $\Z^2$ having long-range self-repulsive interactions. By comparison with a long range one-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model we shown that the polymer models we considered here undergo a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Leandro Cioletti , Chang Dorea , Simone Vasconcelos

Polymers in a melt may be subject to topological constraints, as in the example of unlinked polymer rings. How to do statistical mechanics in the presence of such constraints remains a fundamental open problem. We study the effect of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-04 Pablo Serna , Guy Bunin , Adam Nahum

We examine the dynamics of entanglement entropy of all parts in an open system consisting of a two-level dimer interacting with an environment of oscillators. The dimer-environment interaction is almost energy conserving. We find the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 M. Merkli , G. P. Berman , R. T. Sayre , X. Wang , A. I. Nesterov

We study the conservative and deterministic dynamics of two nonlinearly interacting particles evolving in a one-dimensional spatially periodic washboard potential. A weak tilt of the washboard potential is applied biasing one direction for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-07 D. Hennig , A. D. Burbanks , A. H. Osbaldestin

For a general class of conducting polymers with arbitrary large unit cell and different on-site Coulomb repulsion values on different type of sites, I demonstrate in exact terms the emergence possibility of an upper, interaction created…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-25 Zsolt Gulacsi

We study multiple elastic collisions of a block and a ball against a rigid wall in one dimension. The complete trajectory of the block is solved as an analytic function of time. Near the turning point of the block the force carried by the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 June-Haak Ee , Jungil Lee

We study the dynamics of a polymer or a D-dimensional elastic manifold diffusing and convected in a non-potential static random flow (the ``randomly driven polymer model''). We find that short-range (SR) disorder is relevant for d < 4 for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-10 Kay Joerg Wiese , Pierre Le Doussal

We report that a dielectric polymer chain, constrained at both ends, sharply collapses when exposed to a high electric field. The chain collapse is driven by nonlocal dipolar interactions and anisotropic polarization of monomers, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Pratik Khandagale , Gal deBotton , Timothy Breitzman , Carmel Majidi , Kaushik Dayal