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The dynamics of phase-separated interfaces shape the behavior of both passive and active condensates. While surface tension in equilibrium systems minimizes interface length, non-equilibrium fluxes can destabilize flat or constantly curved…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Florian Raßhofer , Simon Bauer , Alexander Ziepke , Ivan Maryshev , Erwin Frey

Binary fluid mixtures are examples of complex fluids whose microstructure and flow are strongly coupled. For pairs of simple fluids, the microstructure consists of droplets or bicontinuous demixed domains and the physics is controlled by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-05 Michael E. Cates , Elsen Tjhung

We derive effective equations of motion governing the dynamics of sharp interfaces in phase-separated binary mixtures driven by spatio-temporal modulations of their material properties. We demonstrate, in particular, that spatial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-25 Jacopo Romano , Ramin Golestanian , Benoît Mahault

We have performed small-angle light-scattering measurements of the static structure factor of a critical binary mixture undergoing diffusive partial remixing. An uncommon scattering geometry integrates the structure factor over the sample…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pietro Cicuta , Alberto Vailati , Marzio Giglio

Approximate expressions for correlation functions in binary inhomogeneous mixtures are derived in a framework of the mesoscopic theory [Ciach A., Mol. Phys., 2011, {\textbf{109}}, 1101]. Fluctuation contribution is taken into account in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-26 A. Ciach , O. Patsahan , A. Meyra

We investigate the dynamics of colloids at a fluid interface driven by attractive capillary interactions. At submillimeter length scales, the capillary attraction is formally analogous to two-dimensional gravity. In particular it is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-27 Alvaro Dominguez , Martin Oettel , S. Dietrich

We demonstrate that collective motion of interfacial fluctuations can occur at the interface between two coexisting thermodynamic phases. Based on computer simulation results for driven diffusive Ising and Blume-Capel models, we conjecture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thomas H. R. Smith , Oleg Vasilyev , Anna Maciolek , Matthias Schmidt

A multispecies diffuse interface model is formulated in a fluctuating hydrodynamics framework for the purpose of simulating surfactant interfaces at the nanoscale. The model generalizes previous work to ternary mixtures, employing a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 John B. Bell , Andrew Nonaka , Alejandro L. Garcia

Through an Hamiltonian action we write down the system of equations of motions for a mixture of thermocapillary fluids under the assumption that the internal energy is a function not only of the gradient of the densities but also of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-15 Henri Gouin , Tommaso Ruggeri

Assuming an effective quadratic Hamiltonian, we derive an approximate, linear stochastic equation of motion for the density-fluctuations in liquids, composed of overdamped Brownian particles. From this approach, time dependent two point…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Matthias Krüger , David S. Dean

A particle placed in soft matter distorts its host and creates an energy landscape. This can occur, for example, for particles in liquid crystals, for particles on lipid bilayers or for particles trapped at fluid interfaces. Such energies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-20 Nima Sharifi-Mood , Iris B. Liu , Kathleen J. Stebe

We show that to account for the full spectrum of surface fluctuations from low scattering vector qd << 1 (classical capillary wave theory) to high qd > 1 (bulk-like fluctuations), one must take account of the interface's bending rigidity at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Edgar M. Blokhuis

In this supplementary paper we present some details on the solid-liquid interface detection, the deduction of the non-equilibrium free energy, the analysis of the granular temperature and energy per mode, a validation of the small slope…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-10 Li-Hua Luu , Gustavo Castillo , Nicolás Mujica , Rodrigo Soto

Fluctuations of the interface between coexisting colloidal fluid phases have been measured with confocal microscopy. Due to a very low surface tension, the thermal motions of the interface are so slow, that a record can be made of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 V. W. A. de Villeneuve , J. M. J. van Leeuwen , W. van Saarloos , H. N. W. Lekkerkerker

Starting from a phase-field description of the isothermal solidification of a dilute binary alloy, we establish a model where capillary waves of the solidification front interact with the diffusive concentration field of the solute. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alexander L. Korzhenevskii , Richard Bausch , Rudi Schmitz

Last years, there has been a renewed interest in the utilization of statistical field theory methods for the description of systems at equilibrium both in the vicinity and away from critical points, in particular in the field of liquid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-02 Vincent Russier , Jean-Michel Caillol

The localized low-energy interfacial excitations, or Nambu-Goldstone modes, of phase-segregated binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates are investigated analytically by means of a double-parabola approximation (DPA) to the Lagrangian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-11 Joseph O. Indekeu , Thu Van Nguyen , Chang-You Lin , Tran Huu Phat

To describe the full spectrum of surface fluctuations of the interface between phase-separated colloid-polymer mixtures from low scattering vector q (classical capillary wave theory) to high q (bulk-like fluctuations), one must take account…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Edgar M. Blokhuis , Joris Kuipers , Richard Vink

Modern theories of the hydrophobic effect highlight its dependence on length scale, emphasizing in particular the importance of interfaces that emerge in the vicinity of sizable hydrophobes. We recently showed that a faithful treatment of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-06 Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan , Grant M Rotskoff , Alexander Hudson , Phillip Geissler

Capillary interactions have emerged as a tool for the directed assembly of particles adsorbed at fluid-fluid interfaces, and play a role in controlling the mechanical properties of emulsions and foams. In this paper, following Davies et al.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-23 Gary B. Davies , Lorenzo Botto