These lectures illustrate some of the concepts of soft-condensed matter physics, taking examples from colloid physics. Many of the theoretical concepts will be illustrated with the results of computer simulations. After a brief introduction describing interactions between colloids, the paper...

The continuum percolation system is developed to model a random stock price process in this work. Recent empirical research has demonstrated various statistical features of stock price changes, the financial model aiming at understanding price fluctuations needs to define a mechanism for the...

The Brownian motion of a bound particle in shear flow is a basic problem in colloid and polymer science. Since the flow has a rotational component, the description cannot be cast in the usual equilibrium statistical mechanics framework of particle motion in a potential well. Instead, the...

The haploid–diploid cycle where, under unfavorable conditions the population becomes diploid, is modeled by a Monte-Carlo method in the framework of the Jan–Stauffer–Moseley hypothesis. Diploidy and sex may have first arisen as a way to escape death, when a simple unicellular individual is...

In our previous study [Zhu et al., Quantum game interpretation for a special case of Parrondo’s paradox, Physica A 390 (2011) 579], the capital-dependent Parrondo’s game where one game depends on the capital modulus M=4 was shown not to have a definite stationary probability distribution and...

The liquid crystal phase transitions for a classical fluid mixture of hard ellipsoids with aspect ratios 10 : 1 and 1 : 10, and equal volume, have been studied at two compositions using Onsager theories and by computer simulation. The original Onsager from of the Helmholtz free energy contains...

In this study, nucleation and grain growth was studied by using 2-dimensional generalized Monte Carlo simulations and experiments. As an attempt to improve the JMAK model, we proposed a new differential equation to be able to model nucleation and growth phenomena using nonextensive...

We propose the Langevin-type microscopic equations of motion for magnetic fluids. Magnetic fluids are modeled as an ensemble of interacting ferromagnetic nanoparticles suspended in a viscous fluid. The present model is described in terms of position vectors of nanoparticles and orientation...

We analyze the Sznajd opinion formation model, where a pair of neighboring individuals sharing the same opinion on a square lattice convinces its six neighbors to adopt their opinions, when a fraction of the individuals is updated according to the usual random sequential updating rule...

Some limitations of Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov (JMAK) equation, which is used widely for describing kinetics of phase transformation, were demonstrated using probabilistic analysis and Monte Carlo simulations [Acta Mater. 48 (2000) 4217]. As well-known, JMAK equation predicts correctly...