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J Chem Phys
December 2024
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
Complex-Langevin field-theoretic simulations (CL-FTSs) provide an approximation-free method of calculating fluctuation corrections to the self-consistent field theory (SCFT) of block copolymer melts. However, the complex fields are prone to the formation of hot spots, which causes the method to fail. This problem has been attributed to an invariance under complex translations, which allows the system to drift away from the real-valued saddle-point of SCFT.
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December 2024
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China.
J Chem Phys
November 2024
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia.
Tunable self-assembly driven by external electric or magnetic fields is of significant interest in modern soft matter physics. While extensively studied in two-dimensional systems, it remains insufficiently explored in three-dimensional systems. In this study, we investigated the formation of vertical strings from an initial monolayer system of particles deposited on a horizontal substrate under the influence of an external magnetic field using experiments, computer simulations, and theoretical frameworks.
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October 2024
School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Experimental evidence showed that an increase in intracellular chloride concentration [Formula: see text] caused by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) input can promote epileptic firing activity, but the actual mechanisms remain elusive. Here in this theoretical work, we show that influx of chloride and concomitant bicarbonate ion [Formula: see text] efflux upon GABA receptor activation can induce epileptic firing activity by transition of GABA from inhibition to excitation. We analyzed the intrinsic property of neuron firing states as a function of [Formula: see text] We found that as [Formula: see text] increases, the system exhibits a saddle-node bifurcation, above which the neuron exhibits a spectrum of intensive firing, periodic bursting interrupted by depolarization block (DB) state, and eventually a stable DB through a Hopf bifurcation.
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August 2024
Institute for Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Slow brain rhythms, for example during slow-wave sleep or pathological conditions like seizures and spreading depolarization, can be accompanied by oscillations in extracellular potassium concentration. Such slow brain rhythms typically have a lower frequency than tonic action-potential firing. They are assumed to arise from network-level mechanisms, involving synaptic interactions and delays, or from intrinsically bursting neurons.
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