Solomon F. Duki | Searcharxiv

arXiv2018

Stochastic Resonance and first passage time for excitable system exposed to underdamped medium

Noise induced Brownian dynamics in underdamped medium is studied numerically to understand the firing time of excitable systems. By considering Brownian particles that move in underdamped medium, we study how the first arrival time behaves for different parameters of the model. We study the first arrival time for both single particle as well as the first arrival time of one particle out a system that has N particles. The present study helps to understand the intercellular calcium dynamics in cardiac tissue at the level of a single microdomain and at a tissue level (ensemble of microdomains). In the presence of time varying signal, we study how signal to noise ratio (SNR) depends on the model parameters. It is showed that the SNR exhibits a pronounced peak at a particular noise strength. The fact that the SNR is amplified as the number of micro domains (N) increase shows that the weak periodic signal plays a decisive role in controlling the noise induced dynamics of excitable systems which may also shed light on how to control the abnormal calcium release in a cardiac tissue.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2018

Volume analysis of supercooled water under high pressure

Motivated by an experimental finding on the density of supercooled water at high pressure [O. Mishima, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 144503 (2010)] we performed atomistic molecular dynamics simulations study of bulk water in the isothermal-isobaric ensemble. Cooling and heating cycles at different isobars and isothermal compression at different temperatures are performed on the water sample with pressures that range from 0 to 1.0 GPa. The cooling simulations are done at temperatures that range from 40 K to 380 K using two different cooling rates, 10 K/ns and 10 K/5 ns. For the heating simulations we used the slowest heating rate (10 K/5 ns) by applying the same range of isobars. Our analysis of the variation of the volume of the bulk water sample with temperature at different pressures from both isobaric cooling/heating and isothermal compression cycles indicates a concave-downward curvature at high pressures that is consistent with the experiment for emulsified water. In particular, a strong concave down curvature is observed between the temperatures 180 K and 220 K. Below the glass transition temperature, which is around 180 K at 1GPa, the volume turns to concave upward curvature. No crystallization of the supercooled liquid state was observed below 180 K even after running the system for an additional microsecond.

cond-mat.soft↗