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The spatio-temporal organization of proteins and the associated morphological changes in membranes are of importance in cell signaling. Several mechanisms that promote the aggregation of proteins at low cell surface concentrations have been…

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Two known distinct examples of one-dimensional systems which are known to exhibit a phase transition are critically examined: (A) a lattice model with harmonic nearest-neighbor elastic interactions and an on-site Morse potential, and (B)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-17 N. Theodorakopoulos

Colloidal mixtures represent a versatile model system to study transport in complex environments. They allow for a systematic variation of the control parameters, namely size ratio, total volume fraction and composition. We study the…

We study the dynamics of an asymmetric simple exclusion process with open boundaries and local interactions using a pair approximation which generalizes the 2-node cluster mean field theory and the Markov chain approach to kinetics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 D. Botto , A. Pelizzola , M. Pretti

It is well known that non-central nuclear forces, such as the spin-orbital coupling and the tensor force, play important roles in understanding many interesting features of nuclear structures. However, their dynamical effects in nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-17 Jun Xu , Bao-An Li , Wen-Qing Shen , Yin Xia

The two-dimensional contact process (CP) with a competitive dynamics proposed by Martins {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 84}, 011125(2011)] leads to the appearance of an unusual active asymmetric phase, in which the system sublattices are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Salete Pianegonda , Carlos E. Fiore

The spatio-temporally periodic (STP) potential is interesting in Physics due to the intimate coupling between its time and spatial components. In this paper we begin with a brief discussion of the dynamical behaviors of a single particle in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-04 Owen D. Myers , Junru Wu , Jeffrey S. Marshall , Christopher M. Danforth

Quantum dynamics on quasiperiodic geometries has recently gathered significant attention in ultra-cold atom experiments where non trivial localised phases have been observed. One such quasiperiodic model is the so called Fibonacci model. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-26 Cecilia Chiaracane , Francesca Pietracaprina , Archak Purkayastha , John Goold

We study the dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) manifested in the subsequent unitary dynamics of an extended Ising model with additional three spin interactions following a sudden quench. Revisiting the equilibrium phase diagram of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Sourav Bhattacharjee , Amit Dutta

We investigate the effect of the phase difference of applied fields on the dynamics of mutually coupled Josephson junction. The system desynchronizes for any value of applied phase difference and the dynamics even changes from chaotic to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 Chitra R Nayak , V C Kuriakose

Molecular dynamics computer simulations are used to investigate thedynamics of a binary mixture of charged (Yukawa) particles with a size-ratio of 1:5. We find that the system undergoes a phase transition where the large particles…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Norio Kikuchi , Juergen Horbach

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a hallmark of equilibrium systems, typically characterized by a single critical point separating ordered and disordered phases. Recently, a novel class of non-equilibrium phase transitions was uncovered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Gustavo A. L. Forão , Jonas Berx , Tan Van Vu , Carlos E. Fiore

Motor-driven cargo transport is a complex phenomenon where multiple motor proteins attached on to a cargo engage in pulling activity, often leading to tug-of-war, displaying bidirectional motion. However, most mathematical and computational…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-09 Deepak Bhat , Manoj Gopalakrishnan

We study the dynamics of three particles in a finite interval, in which two light particles are separated by a heavy ``piston'', with elastic collisions between particles but inelastic collisions between the light particles and the interval…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. I. Hurtado , S. Redner

An interface description and numerical simulations of model A kinetics are used for the first time to investigate the intra-surface kinetics of phase ordering on corrugated surfaces. Geometrical dynamical equations are derived for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Oliver Schoenborn , Rashmi C. Desai

The dynamics of folding of proteins is studied by means of a phenomenological master equation. The energy distribution is taken as a truncated exponential for the misfolded states plus a native state sitting below the continuum. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Estelle Pitard , Henri Orland

The motion involved in barrier crossing for protein folding are investigated in terms of the chain dynamics of the polymer backbone, completing the microscopic description of protein folding presented in the previous paper. Local reaction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 John J. Portman , Shoji Takada , Peter G. Wolynes

The dynamics of a tagged particle immersed in a fluid of particles of the same size but different mass is studied when the system is confined between two hard parallel plates separated a distance smaller than twice the diameter of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-06 P. Maynar , M. I. García de Soria , J. Javier Brey

We present a simple model of protein folding dynamics that captures key qualitative elements recently seen in all-atom simulations. The goals of this theory are to serve as a simple formalism for gaining deeper insight into the physical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vijay S. Pande

Non-equilibrium dynamics of many-body systems is important in many branches of science, such as condensed matter, quantum chemistry, and ultracold atoms. Here we report the experimental observation of a phase transition of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Gonzalo A. Alvarez , Dieter Suter , Robin Kaiser