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We analyse a dynamic control problem for scalar reaction-diffusion equations, focusing on the emulation of pattern formation through the selection of appropriate active controls. While boundary controls alone prove inadequate for…

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We study reaction zones in three different versions of the A+B->0 system. For a steady state formed by opposing currents of A and B particles we derive scaling behavior via renormalization group analysis. By use of a previously developed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Benjamin P. Lee , John Cardy

We extend existing renormalization group calculations for the exponents describing scaling of star polymers and polymer networks constituted by chains of different species (the so-called copolymer star exponents). Our four loop results find…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Schulte-Frohlinde , Yu. Holovatch , C. von Ferber , A. Blumen

Models of reaction diffusion processes usually employ discrete lattice models with particles interacting at the same site, resulting in localized reactions in the continuum limit. Here, various non-local interactions are considered, and two…

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Metallic nanoparticles embedded in stimuli-responsive polymers can be regarded as nanoreactors since their catalytic activity can be changed within wide limits: the physicochemical properties of the polymer network can be tuned and switched…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Stefano Angioletti-Uberti , Yan Lu , Matthias Ballauff , Joachim Dzubiella

The process of adsorption on a planar repulsive, "marginal" and attractive wall of long-flexible polymer chains with excluded volume interactions is investigated. The performed scaling analysis is based on formal analogy between the polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-08 Z. Usatenko

We study the relation between the directed polymer and the directed percolation models, for the case of a disordered energy landscape where the energies are taken from bimodal distribution. We find that at the critical concentration of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ehud Perlsman , Shlomo Havlin

A number of results for reactions involving subdiffusive species all with the same anomalous exponent gamma have recently appeared in the literature and can often be understood in terms of a subordination principle whereby time t in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. B. Yuste , Katja Lindenberg

A kinetic Monte Carlo method was used to simulate the diffusion of reptating polymer chains across the interface. A time-resolved fluorescence technique conjunction with direct energy transfer method was used to measure the extend of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Erkan Tuzel , K. Batuhan Kisacikoglu , Onder Pekcan

We study the coupled two-species non-equilibrium reaction-controlled diffusion model introduced by Trimper et al. [Phys. Rev. E 62, 6071 (2000)] by means of detailed Monte Carlo simulations in one and two dimensions. Particles of type A may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Beth A. Reid , Jason C. Brunson , Uwe C. Tauber

The control of chemical reactions is a recurring theme in physics and chemistry. Traditionally, chemical reactions have been investigated by tuning thermodynamic parameters, such as temperature or pressure. More recently, physical methods…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Lothar Ratschbacher , Christoph Zipkes , Carlo Sias , Michael Köhl

We present a method to control the position as a function of time of one-dimensional traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion systems according to a pre-specified protocol of motion. Given this protocol, the control function is found…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-22 Jakob Löber , Harald Engel

The behavior of the self diffusion constant of Langevin particles interacting via a pairwise interaction is considered. The diffusion constant is calculated approximately within a perturbation theory in the potential strength about the bare…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Dean , A. Lefèvre

We study diffusion-limited coalescence, A+A<-->A$, in one dimension, and derive an exact solution for the steady state in the presence of a trap. Without the trap, the system arrives at an equilibrium state which satisfies detailed balance,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel ben-Avraham

We study a variation of the trapping reaction, A+B->A, in which both the traps (A) and the particles (B) undergo diffusion, and the traps upon meeting react according to A+A->0 or A. This two-species reaction-diffusion system is known to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Joshua D. Hellerick , Robert C. Rhoades , Benjamin P. Vollmayr-Lee

Diffusion-mediated surface phenomena are crucial for human life and industry, with examples ranging from oxygen capture by lung alveolar surface to heterogeneous catalysis, gene regulation, membrane permeation and filtration processes.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-19 Denis S. Grebenkov

We perform numerical simulations of isolated, partially active polymers, driven out-of-equilibrium by a fraction of their monomers. We show that, if the active beads are all gathered in a contiguous block, the position of the section along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-04 Marin Vatin , Sumanta Kundu , Emanuele Locatelli

The rates of activated processes, such as escape from a metastable state and nucleation, are exponentially sensitive to an externally applied field. We describe how this applies to modulation by high-frequency fields and illustrate it with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Dykman , Brage Golding

We investigate a class of diffusion-controlled reactions that are initiated at the time instance when a prescribed number $K$ among $N$ particles independently diffusing in a solvent are simultaneously bound to a target region. In the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Denis S. Grebenkov , Aanjaneya Kumar

We study phenomenological scaling theories of the polymer dynamics in random media, employing the existing scaling theories of polymer chains and the percolation statistics. We investigate both the Rouse and the Zimm model for Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Amit K. Chattopadhyay , Amit Dutta