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Diffusion of chemicals or tracer molecules through complex systems containing irregularly shaped channels is important in many applications. Most theoretical studies based on the famed Fick-Jacobs equation focus on the idealised case of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Max Bauer , Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

We study a lattice model for the spreading of fluid films, which are a few molecular layers thick, in narrow channels with inert lateral walls. We focus on systems connected to two particle reservoirs at different chemical potentials,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Dotti , A. Gambassi , M. N. Popescu , S. Dietrich

We present the detailed analysis of the diffusive transport of spatially inhomogeneous fluid mixtures and the interplay between structural and dynamical properties varying on the atomic scale. The present treatment is based on different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-19 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

We study the dynamics of a single-particle wave packet on a one-dimensional lattice subject to periodic random phase kicks with finite spatial correlation length. This stroboscopic setting provides a controllable model of dephasing in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Pei Wang

We construct the hydrodynamic theory of coherent collective motion ("flocking") at a solid-liquid interface. The polar order parameter and concentration of a collection of "active" (self-propelled) particles at a planar interface between a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Niladri Sarkar , Abhik Basu , John Toner

The dynamics of a tracer particle in a glassy matrix of obstacles displays slow complex transport as the free volume approaches a critical value and the void space falls apart. We investigate the emerging subdiffusive motion of the test…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-20 Thomas Franosch , Markus Spanner , Teresa Bauer , Gerd E. Schröder-Turk , Felix Höfling

We consider the increase of the spatial variance of some inhomogeneous, non-equilibrium density (particles, energy, etc.) in a periodic quantum system of condensed matter-type. This is done for a certain class of initial quantum states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-23 Robin Steinigeweg , Hannu Wichterich , Jochen Gemmer

We present experimental observations of the velocity and spatial distribution of inertial particles dispersed in the turbulent downward flow through a vertical channel at $Re_{\tau} = 235$ and $335$. The working fluid is air laden with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-16 Kee Onn Fong , Omid Amili , Filippo Coletti

A steady self-diffusion process in a gas of hard spheres at equilibrium is analyzed. The system exhibits a constant gradient of labeled particles. Neither the concentration of these particles nor its gradient are assumed to be small. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

Understanding the organization of collective motion in biological systems is an ongoing challenge. In this Paper we consider a minimal model of self-propelled particles with variable speed. Inspired by experimental data from schooling fish,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shradha Mishra , Kolbjørn Tunstrøm , Iain D. Couzin , Cristián Huepe

A scaling theory is developed for diffusion-limited cluster aggregation in a porous medium, where the primary particles and clusters stick irreversibly to the walls of the pore space as well as to each other. Three scaling regimes are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick B. Warren

We use computer simulations to explore the manner in which the particle displacements on intermediate time scales in supercooled fluids correlate to their dynamic structural environment. The fluid we study, a binary mixture of hard spheres,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-11 William P. Krekelberg , Venkat Ganesan , Thomas M. Truskett

Using analytical calculations and computer simulations we consider both the lateral diffusion of a membrane protein and the fluctuation spectrum of the membrane in which the protein is embedded. The membrane protein interacts with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Ellen Reister-Gottfried , Stefan M. Leitenberger , Udo Seifert

We theoretically study the nematic ordering transition of rods that are able to elastically adjust their mutually excluded volumes. The model rods, which consist of a hard core surrounded by a deformable shell, mimic the structure of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Shundyak , R. van Roij , P. van der Schoot

The dynamics of self-locomotion of active particles in aligned or liquid crystalline fluids strongly deviates from that in simple isotropic media. We explore the long-time dynamics of a swimmer moving in a three-dimensional smectic liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Claudia Ferreiro-Córdova , John Toner , Hartmut Löwen , Henricus H. Wensink

Populations of swimming microorganisms produce fluid motions that lead to dramatically enhanced diffusion of tracer particles. Using simulations of suspensions of swimming particles in a periodic domain, we capture this effect and show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-22 Patrick T. Underhill , Juan P. Hernández-Ortiz , Michael D. Graham

We study the diffusive dynamics of the classical one-dimensional lattice model of mobile particles featuring the incoherent metallic state of the organic TTF-CA found in the vicinity of the neutral-ionic(NI)-transition. The particles are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-10 Yuta Sakai , Chisa Hotta

The linear response description for impurity diffusion in a granular fluid undergoing homogeneous cooling is developed in the preceeding paper. The formally exact Einstein and Green-Kubo expressions for the self-diffusion coefficient are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 James Lutsko , J. Javier Brey , James W. Dufty

In this work we present a general derivation of the non-Fickian behavior for the self-diffusion of identically interacting particle systems with excluded mutual passage. We show that the conditional probability distribution of finding a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Markus Kollmann

The collective diffusion effects in system of a colloidal particles in a liquid crystal has been proposed. In this article described peculiarity of collective diffusion colloidal particles in a liquid crystal, which can be observe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-25 B. I. Lev , A. G. Zagorodny