Physics of base-pairing dynamics in DNA

M Manghi, N Destainville - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
As a key molecule of life, Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA) is the focus of numbers of
investigations with the help of biological, chemical and physical techniques. From a physical …

Diffusion with resetting in a logarithmic potential

S Ray, S Reuveni - The Journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We study the effect of resetting on diffusion in a logarithmic potential. In this model, a particle
diffusing in a potential U (x)= U 0 log| x| is reset, ie, taken back to its initial position, with a …

Colloquium: Anomalous statistics of laser-cooled atoms in dissipative optical lattices

G Afek, N Davidson, DA Kessler, E Barkai - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Diffusion occurs in numerous physical systems throughout nature, drawing its generality
from the universality of the central limit theorem. Approximately a century ago it was realized …

Approach to equilibrium of diffusion in a logarithmic potential

O Hirschberg, D Mukamel, GM Schütz - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2011 - APS
The late-time distribution function P (x, t) of a particle diffusing in a one-dimensional
logarithmic potential is calculated for arbitrary initial conditions. We find a scaling solution …

Freezing transition in the barrier crossing rate of a diffusing particle

S Sabhapandit, SN Majumdar - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We study the decay rate θ (a) that characterizes the late time exponential decay of the first-
passage probability density F a (t| 0)∼ e-θ (a) t of a diffusing particle in a one dimensional …

An exactly solvable model for RNA polymerase during the elongation stage

NPN Ngoc, V Belitsky, GM Schütz - Physical Biology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider a Markovian model for the kinetics of RNA Polymerase (RNAP) which provides
a physical explanation for the phenomenon of cooperative pushing during transcription …

Asymmetric exclusion process with long-range interactions

V Belitsky, NPN Ngoc, GM Schütz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.05017, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider asymmetric simple exclusion processes with $ N $ particles on the one-
dimensional discrete torus with $ L $ sites with following properties:(i) nearest-neighbor …

Modelling asymmetric unemployment dynamics: The logarithmic-harmonic potential approach

CH Hui, CF Lo, HY Ip - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Asymmetric behaviour has been documented in unemployment rates which increase quickly
in recessions but decline relatively slowly during expansions. To model such asymmetric …

Exploring the Gillis model: a discrete approach to diffusion in logarithmic potentials

M Onofri, G Pozzoli, M Radice… - Journal of Statistical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The Gillis model, introduced more than 60 years ago, is a non-homogeneous random walk
with a position-dependent drift. Though parsimoniously cited both in physical and …

A least microenvironmental uncertainty principle (LEUP) as a generative model of collective cell migration mechanisms

A Barua, JM Nava-Sedeño, M Meyer-Hermann… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Collective migration is commonly observed in groups of migrating cells, in the form of
swarms or aggregates. Mechanistic models have proven very useful in understanding …