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Fractional Brownian motion, a Gaussian non-Markovian self-similar process with stationary long-correlated increments, has been identified to give rise to the anomalous diffusion behavior in a great variety of physical systems. The…

We study the generalized Langevin equation approach to anomalous diffusion for a harmonic oscillator and a free particle driven by different forms of internal noises, such as power-law-correlated and distributed-order noises that fulfil…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Z. Tomovski , K. Gorska , T. Pietrzak , R. Metzler , T. Sandev

The coupling between advection and diffusion in position space can often lead to enhanced mass transport compared to diffusion without flow. An important framework used to characterize the long-time diffusive transport in position space is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Peng

Brownian motion of an array of harmonically coupled particles subject to a periodic substrate potential and driven by an external bias is investigated. In the linear response limit (small bias), the coupling between particles may enhance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhigang Zheng , Bambi Hu , Gang Hu

We study the two-dimensional overdamped motion of an active particle whose orientational dynamics is subject to fractional Brownian noise, whereas its position is affected by self-propulsion and Brownian fluctuations. From a Langevin-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Francisco J. Sevilla

We investigate the bounds between normal or anomalous effective diffusion for inertial particles transported by parallel flows. The infrared behavior of the fluid kinetic-energy spectrum, i.e. the possible presence of long-range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-07 Marco Martins Afonso

A self-consistent and universal description of friction and diffusion for Brownian particles (grains) in different systems, as a gas with Boltzmann collisions, dusty plasma with ion absorption by grains, and for active particles (e.g.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Trigger , G. J. F. van Heijst , P. P. J. M. Schram

We address the problem of diffusion on a comb whose teeth display a varying length. Specifically, the length $\ell$ of each tooth is drawn from a probability distribution displaying the large-$\ell$ behavior $P(\ell) \sim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , A. Baumgaertner

Interacting particles diffusing in single-file is a fundamental model of transport in narrow channels where particles cannot bypass each other. An important result has been obtained by Kollmann [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 180602 (2003)] for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Théotim Berlioz , Olivier Bénichou , Aurélien Grabsch

Diffusion behavior of Brownian particles in confined spaces was studied for the displacements notably shorter than the confinement size. The confinements, resembling structure of porous solids, were modeled using a spatially-varying…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-24 Daniel Schneider , Rustem Valiullin , Nail Fatkullin

In dilute gases, transport properties such as the thermal conductivity, self-diffusion, and viscosity are significantly affected by interatomic collisions, which are determined by the potential form. This study explores these transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-17 Alejandro Alés , Juan Ignacio Cerato , Leandro Marchioni , Miguel Hoyuelos

We study the dynamics of overdamped Brownian particles interacting through soft pairwise potentials on a comb-like structure. Within the linearized Dean-Kawasaki framework, we characterize the particle density fluctuations by computing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-21 Davide Venturelli , Pierre Illien , Aurélien Grabsch , Olivier Bénichou

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

We study the thermal Markovian diffusion of tracer particles in a 2D medium with spatially-varying diffusivity $D(r)$, mimicking recently measured, heterogeneous maps of the apparent diffusion coefficient in biological cells. For this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Andrey G. Cherstvy , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

The dynamics of Brownian motion has widespread applications extending from transport in designed micro-channels up to its prominent role for inducing transport in molecular motors and Brownian motors. Here, Brownian transport is studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-18 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , P. Talkner , P. Hänggi , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubí

This article discusses the numerical result predicted by the quantum Langevin equation of the generalized diffusion function of a Brownian particle immersed in an Ohmic quantum bath of harmonic oscillators. The time dependence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Pedro J. Colmenares

The transport properties of a spherical active Brownian particle in a periodic potential under heavy damping are considered. The self-propelled particle is subjected to the asymmetric potential, detailed balance is lost and the particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-09 Arjun S R , Ronald Benjamin

We study the transverse momentum, $p_T$, broadening of charm and beauty quarks in the early stage of high energy nuclear collisions. We aim to compare the diffusion in the evolving Glasma fields with that of a standard, Markovian-Brownian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-28 Pooja , Santosh K. Das , Lucia Oliva , Marco Ruggieri

In many physical or biological systems, diffusion can be described by Brownian motions with stochastic diffusion coefficients (DCs). In the present study, we investigate properties of the diffusion with a broad class of stochastic DCs with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-13 Go Uchida , Hitoshi Washizu , Hiromi Miyoshi