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By analyzing the real space nonequilibrium dynamics of polymers, we elucidate the physics of driven translocation and propose its dynamical scaling scenario analogous to that in the surface growth phenomena. We provide a detailed account of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-28 Takuya Saito , Takahiro Sakaue

We construct a mean-field model that describes the nonlinear dynamics of a spin-polarized electron gas interacting with fixed, positively-charged ions possessing a magnetic moment that evolves in time. The mobile electrons are modeled by a…

The Enskog-Landau kinetic equation is considered to describe non-equilibrium processes of a mixture of charged hard spheres. This equation has been obtained in our previous papers by means of the non-equilibrium statistical operator method.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Kobryn , M. V. Tokarchuk , Y. A. Humenyuk

We propose a simple phenomenological model for describing the conformational dynamics of biopolymers via the nonlinearity-induced buckling and collapse (i.e. coiling up) instabilities. Taking into account the coupling between the internal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Serge F. Mingaleev , Yuri B. Gaididei , Peter L. Christiansen , Yuri S. Kivshar

We study soliton dynamics in a system of two linearly coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which describe the dynamics of a two-component Bose gas, coupled by an electromagnetic field, and confined in a strong optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-20 A. Trombettoni , H. E. Nistazakis , Z. Rapti , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider the interaction of a nonlinear Schrodinger soliton with a localized (point) defect in the medium through which it travels. Using numerical simulations, we find parameter regimes under which the soliton may be reflected,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 R. H. Goodman , P. J. Holmes , M. I. Weinstein

Spectral mode representations play an essential role in various areas of physics, from quantum mechanics to fluid turbulence, but they are not yet extensively used to characterize and describe the behavioral dynamics of living systems.…

We show that active transport processes in biological systems can be understood through a local equilibrium description formulated at the mesoscale, the scale to describe stochastic processes. This new approach uses the method established…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Kjelstrup , J. M. Rubi , D. Bedeaux

We demonstrate that periodic modulation of the nonlinearity coefficient in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation can strongly facilitate creation of traveling solitons in the lattice. We predict this possibility in an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-25 Jesus Cuevas , Boris A. Malomed , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Transport of rodlike particles in confinement environments of macromolecular networks plays crucial roles in many important biological processes and technological applications. The relevant understanding has been limited to thin rods with…

The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation is a fascinating nonlinear evolution equation both from mathematical and physical points of view. It is related to the dynamics of several important physical systems such as ferromagnets, vortex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-01-06 M. Lakshmanan

Predicting the macroscopic mechanical behavior of polymeric materials from the micro-structural features has remained a challenge for decades. Existing theoretical models often fail to accurately capture the experimental data, due to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-04 Lin Zhan , Siyu Wang , Rui Xiao , Shaoxing Qu , Paul Steinmann

The dynamic response of prestressed semiflexible biopolymers is characterized by the propagation and relaxation of tension, which arises due to the near inextensibility of a stiff backbone. It is coupled to the dynamics of contour length…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-16 B. Obermayer , E. Frey

The late-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems is organized in distinct dynamical universality classes, characterized by their conservation laws and thus by their emergent hydrodynamic transport. Here, we study transport in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-30 Philip Zechmann , Alvise Bastianello , Michael Knap

One-dimensional topological pumping of matter waves in two overlaid optical lattices moving with respect to each other is considered in the presence of attractive nonlinearity. It is shown that there exists a threshold nonlinearity level…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-04-27 Qidong Fu , Peng Wang , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Fangwei Ye

The relaxation dynamics of correlated electron transport (ET) along molecular chains is studied based on a substantially improved numerically exact path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach. As archetypical model we consider a Hubbard chain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Muehlbacher , J. Ankerhold , A. Komnik

Based on a Hamiltonian that incorporates the elastic coupling between a tracer and active particles, we derive a generalized Langevin model for the non-equilibrium mechanical response of active viscoelastic biomatter. Our model accounts for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Amir Abbasi , Roland R. Netz , Ali Naji

Live cells have ambiguous mechanical properties. They were often described as either elastic solids or viscoelastic fluids and have recently been classified as soft glassy materials characterized by weak power-law rheology. Nonlinear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-30 Lars Wolff , Klaus Kroy

Recent experimental developments in multimode nonlinear photonic circuits (MMNPC), have motivated the development of an optical thermodynamic theory that describes the equilibrium properties of an initial beam excitation. However, a…

While the dynamics of polymer chains in equilibrium media is well understood by now, the polymer dynamics in active non-equilibrium environments can be very different. Here we study the dynamics of polymers in a viscous medium containing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-23 Jaeoh Shin , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Won Kyu Kim , Vasily Zaburdaev