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Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity are useful models for studying cell polarity formation, which is a key process in cell division and differentiation. We rigorously show the existence and stability of…

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Vesicles are important surrogate structures made up of multiple phospholipids and cholesterol distributed in the form of a lipid bilayer. Tubular vesicles can undergo pearling i.e., formation of beads on the liquid thread akin to the…

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The work discusses specifics of phase transitions for metastable states of substances. The objects of condensed media physics are primarily equilibrium states of substances with metastable phases viewed as an exception, while the…

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A multi-phase-field model for the description of the discontinuous precipitation reaction is formulated which takes into account surface diffusion along grain boundaries and interfaces as well as volume diffusion. Simulations reveal that…

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We consider the formation of finite-size domains in lipid bilayers consisting of saturated and hybrid lipids. First, we describe a monolayer model that includes a coupling between a compositional scalar field and a two-dimensional vectorial…

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In this paper, we consider some hyperbolic variants of the mass conserving Allen-Cahn equation, which is a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation, introduced (as a simpler alternative to the Cahn-Hilliard equation) to describe phase…

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Liquid mixtures of many interacting components often exhibit numerous coexisting types of droplets. An exciting example is the cytosol of biological cells, where diverse droplets, called condensates, are essential for cellular function.…

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A wave front and a wave back that spontaneously connect two hyperbolic equilibria, known as a heteroclinic wave loop, give rise to periodic waves with arbitrarily large spatial periods through the heteroclinic bifurcation. The nonlinear…

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Theoretical work has shed light on the phase behavior of idealized mixtures of many components with random interactions. But typical mixtures interact through particular physical features, leading to a structured, non-random interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-05 Isabella R. Graf , Benjamin B. Machta

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation that characterizes phase separation phenomena of binary mixtures in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ $(d\in \{2,3\})$ with non-permeable boundary. The equations in the bulk are…

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The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for describing phase separation phenomena in binary mixtures. Traditional numerical methods, such as finite difference and finite element methods, often incur substantial computational cost,…

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The mean compositions of individual components can be tuned to control phase behavior in number-conserving passive mixtures. In this work, we investigate the role of variable average density in a system of infinitely many non-reciprocally…

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In this Letter, we present a rigorous method to study the stability of periodic lasing systems. In a linear model, the presence of a continuum of modes (with arbitrarily close lasing thresholds) gives the impression that stable single-mode…

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Polarized ferrofluids, lipid monolayers and magnetic bubbles form domains with deformable boundaries. Stability analysis of these domains depends on a family of nontrivial integrals. We present a closed form evaluation of these integrals as…

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We study instabilities and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion layers that are diffusively coupled. For two-layer systems of identical two-component reactions, we analyze the stability of homogeneous steady states by exploiting the…

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We establish metastability of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation for initial data that is order-one in energy and order-one in $\dot{H}^{-1}$ away from a point on the so-called slow manifold with $N$ well-separated layers.…

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We study an alloy system where short-ranged, thermally-driven diffusion competes with externally imposed, finite-ranged, athermal atomic exchanges, as is the case in alloys under irradiation. Using a Cahn-Hilliard-type approach, we show…

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