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We investigate the dynamics of a single tracer particle performing Brownian motion in a two-dimensional course of randomly distributed hard obstacles. At a certain critical obstacle density, the motion of the tracer becomes anomalous over…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-19 Teresa Bauer , Felix Höfling , Tobias Munk , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

The phase diagram for a two-dimensional self-avoiding walk model on the square lattice incorporating attractive short-ranged interactions between parallel sections of walk is derived using numerical transfer matrix techniques. The model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. P. Foster , F. Seno

We study the 2D motion of colloidal dimers by single-particle tracking and compare the experimental observations obtained by bright-field microscopy to theoretical predictions for anisotropic diffusion. The comparison is based on the…

We discuss multiscale simulations of long biopolymer translocation through wide nanopores that can accommodate multiple polymer strands. The simulations provide clear evidence of folding quantization, namely, the translocation proceeds…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone Melchionna , Massimo Bernaschi , Maria Fyta , Efthimios Kaxiras , Sauro Succi

We consider a class of inhomogeneous media known as composite media that is often encountered in experimental sciences and investigate the persistence probability of a random walker in such a system. Analytical and numerical results for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Chakraborty

Using the supersymmetry technique, we study the localization-delocalization transition in quasi-one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems with a direction. In contrast to chains, our model captures the diffusive character of carriers' motion at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Kolesnikov , K. B. Efetov

In this paper we consider in detail the connection between the problem of a polymer in a random medium and that of a quantum particle in a random potential. We are interested in a system of finite volume where the polymer is known to be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Yohannes Shiferaw , Yadin Y. Goldschmidt

Three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations provide a striking confirmation to a recent theoretical prediction: the Brownian non-Gaussian diffusion of critical self-avoiding walks. Although the mean square displacement of the polymer center…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-21 Boris Marcone , Sankaran Nampoothiri , Enzo Orlandini , Flavio Seno , Fulvio Baldovin

We consider a one-dimensional continuous time random walk with transition rates depending on an underlying autonomous simple symmetric exclusion process starting out of equilibrium. This model represents an example of a random walk in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Luca Avena , Tertuliano Franco , Milton Jara , Florian Völlering

Extensive Monte Carlo data analysis gives clear evidence that collapsed linear polymers in two dimensions fall in the universality class of athermal, dense self-avoiding walks, as conjectured by B.Duplantier [Phys.Rev.Lett. 71, 4274…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Baiesi , Enzo Orlandini , Attilio L. Stella

A machine learning approach is presented to accelerate the computation of block polymer morphology evolution for large domains over long timescales. The strategy exploits the separation of characteristic times between coarse-grained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Hyun Park , Boyuan Yu , Juhae Park , Ge Sun , Emad Tajkhorshid , Juan J. de Pablo , Ludwig Schneider

In this article, we present an invariance principle for the paths of the directed random polymer in space dimension two in the subcritical intermediate disorder regime. More precisely, the distribution of diffusively rescaled polymer paths…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Simon Gabriel

We study the depinning phase transition of a directed polymer in a $d$-dimensional space by a periodic potential localized on a straight line. We give exact formulas in all dimensions for the critical pinning we need to localize the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Galluccio , R. Graber

In two dimensional electron systems with Coulomb or dipolar interactions, a direct transition, whether first or second order, from a liquid to a crystalline state is forbidden. As a result, between these phases there must be other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Spivak , S. Kivelson

We perform a Monte Carlo study of $N$-step self-avoiding walks, attached to the corner of an impenetrable wedge in two dimensions ($d=2$), or the tip of an impenetrable cone in $d=3$, of sizes ranging up to $N=10^6$ steps. We find that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-22 Yosi Hammer , Yacov Kantor

The problem of two electrons in a two-dimensional random potential is addressed numerically. Specifically, the role of the Coulomb interaction between electrons on localization is investigated by writing the Hamiltonian on a localized basis…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Jorge Talamantes , Michael Pollak

We study memory based random walk models to understand diffusive motion in crowded heterogeneous environment. The models considered are non-Markovian as the current move of the random walk models is determined by randomly selecting a move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Sabeeha Hasnain , Upendra Harbola , Pradipta Bandyopadhyay

We present using simple scaling arguments and one step replica symmetry breaking a theory for the localization of semiflexible polymers in a quenched random environment. In contrast to completely flexible polymers, localization of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Arti Dua , Thomas A. Vilgis

Adsorption of a symmetric (AB) random copolymer (RC) onto a symmetric (ab) random heterogeneous surface (RS) is studied in the annealed approximation by using a two-dimensional partially directed walk model of the polymer. We show that in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 A. A. Polotsky

Linear polymers adsorbing on a wall can be modelled by half-space self-avoiding walks adsorbing on a line in the square lattice, or on a surface in the cubic lattice. In this paper a numerical approach based on the GAS algorithm is used to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-20 Esaias J. Janse van Rensburg