fluctuations of the solute density and the solute diffusion flux. The role of the diffusion flux is analyzed in two descriptions …A binary system in which the diffusion flux has a nonvanishing relaxation time is considered. We study the spectra of …. First, the shortest observable time interval is shorter than the flux relaxation time, and the diffusion flux behaves as …

The recent discovery of a lateral organization in cell membranes due to small structures called ‘rafts’ has motivated a …

transition. The discontinuity in S1/N implies a possibility of large fluctuations of the distance between lipids, or the density … of lipids, in biological membranes such as giant vesicles or liposomes enclosing some materials. …

topics focusing on chiral smectic A liquid crystalline membranes. We derive the elastic free energies of smectic A and chiral … smectic A phases, as well as the surface energies of smooth membranes. Furthermore, we explain how twist and bend deformations …

We propose a theory for the statistical mechanics of a great many large, self-avoiding tethered membranes in the dense … spectrum for such a collection of membranes, and furthermore show that self-avoidance becomes effectively screened for tethered … membranes in the dense phase. A quantitative discussion of when the theoretical approach outlined in this work remains …