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This paper aims at a comprehensive understanding on the novel elastic property of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) discovered very recently through single-molecule manipulation techniques. A general elastic model for double-stranded biopolymers…

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Molecular search phenomena are observed in a variety of chemical and biological systems. During the search the participating particles frequently move in complex inhomogeneous environments with random transitions between different dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-13 Jaeoh Shin , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

By means of the Brownian dynamics (BD) method of simulations we have developed, we study dynamics of individual DNA undergoing constant field gel electrophoresis (CFGE), focusing on the relevance of the `defect' concept due to de Gennes in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ryuzo Azuma

The authors present a new molecular dynamics algorithm for sampling the isothermal-isobaric ensemble. In this approach the velocities of all particles and volume degrees of freedom are rescaled by a properly chosen random factor. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-10 Giovanni Bussi , Tatyana Zykova-Timan , Michele Parrinello

A comprehensive study is presented on the short-time dynamics in suspensions of charged colloidal spheres. The explored parameter space covers the major part of the fluid-state regime, with colloid concentrations extending up to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-20 Marco Heinen , Adolfo J. Banchio , Gerhard Nägele

We introduce a model of long-range interacting particles evolving under a stochastic Monte Carlo dynamics, in which possible increase or decrease in the values of the dynamical variables is accepted with preassigned probabilities. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

We study the convergence of stochastic time-discretization schemes for evolution equations driven by random velocity fields, including examples like stochastic gradient descent and interacting particle systems. Using a unified framework…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Giulia Cavagnari , Giuseppe Savaré , Giacomo Enrico Sodini

Mouse-tracking recording techniques are becoming very attractive in experimental psychology. They provide an effective means of enhancing the measurement of some real-time cognitive processes involved in categorization, decision-making, and…

Applications · Statistics 2019-12-18 Antonio Calcagnì , Luigi Lombardi , Marco D'Alessandro

Investigation of protein self-assembly processes is important for the understanding of the growth processes of functional proteins as well as disease-causing amyloids. Inside cells, intrinsic molecular fluctuations are so high that they…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 John Bridstrup , John S Schreck , Jesse L Jorgenson , Jian-Min Yuan

We study DNA self-assembly and DNA computation using a coarse-grained DNA model within the directional dynamic bonding framework {[}C. Svaneborg, Comp. Phys. Comm. 183, 1793 (2012){]}. In our model, a single nucleotide or domain is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-13 Carsten Svaneborg , Harold Fellermann , Steen Rasmussen

The issue of the nucleation and slow closure mechanisms of non superhelical stress-induced denaturation bubbles in DNA is tackled using coarse-grained MetaDynamics and Brownian simulations. A minimal mesoscopic model is used where the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-13 François Sicard , Nicolas Destainville , Manoel Manghi

Biological processes at the cellular level are stochastic in nature, and the immune response system is no different. Therefore, models that attempt to explain this system need to also incorporate noise or fluctuations that can account for…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-16 Abhilasha Batra , Rati Sharma

We introduce a description of the collective transverse dynamics of charged (proton) beams in the stability regime by suitable classical stochastic fluctuations. In this scheme, the collective beam dynamics is described by time--reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicola Cufaro Petroni , Salvatore De Martino , Silvio De Siena , Fabrizio Illuminati

Motivated by recent DNA-pulling experiments, we revisit the Poland-Scheraga model of melting a double-stranded polymer. We include distinct bending rigidities for both the double-stranded segments, and the single-stranded segments forming a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-13 Sahand Jamal Rahi , Mark Peter Hertzberg , Mehran Kardar

We study the diffusion process in a Heisenberg chain with correlated spatial disorder, with a power spectrum in the momentum space behaving as $k^{-\beta}$, using a stochastic description. It establishes a direct connection between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Vainstein , R. Morgado , F. A. Oliveira , F. A. B. F. de Moura , M. D. Coutinho-Filho

In ABP systems, phase separation is accompanied by the emergence of vapor bubbles within liquid domains. Using large-scale particle-based simulations, we study the stochastic dynamics of these bubbles and find that most nucleate, grow, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-22 Mingqi Yan , Erwin Frey , Marcus Müller , Stefan Klumpp

Condensed phase systems often exhibit a mixture of deterministic and stochastic dynamics at the nanoscale which are essential to understanding their function, but can be challenging to study directly using conventional imaging methods.…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-17 Arnab Sarkar , Allan S. Johnson

We prove local (in space and time) well-posedness for a mildly regularised version of the stochastic quantisation of the Yukawa$_{2}$ Euclidean field theory with a self-interacting boson. Our regularised dynamic is still singular but avoids…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Ajay Chandra , Martin Hairer , Martin Peev

Motivated by single-molecule experiments on synaptic membrane protein domains, we use a stochastic lattice model to study protein reaction and diffusion processes in crowded membranes. We find that the stochastic reaction-diffusion dynamics…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-08 Osman Kahraman , Yiwei Li , Christoph A. Haselwandter

Open quantum systems theory is central to describing the dynamics and equilibration of dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We present an analysis of the linearized stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation (SPGPE) describing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-11 Nils A. Krause , Ashton S. Bradley
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