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Single file diffusion (SFD) exhibits anomalously slow collective transport when particles are able to immobilize by binding and unbinding to the one-dimensional channel within which the particles diffuse. We have explored this system for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 Spencer Farrell , Andrew D Rutenberg

Density-dependent diffusion is a widespread phenomenon in nature. We have examined the density-dependent diffusion behavior of some biological processes such as tumor growth and invasion [23]. Here, we extend our previous work by developing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-14 Ahmed M. Fouad , Marwa M. Fouad

We study the Single File Diffusion (SFD) of a cyclic chain of particles that cannot cross each other, in a thermal bath, with long ranged interactions, and arbitrary damping. We present simulations that exhibit new behaviors specifically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jean-Baptiste Delfau , Christophe Coste , Michel Saint-Jean

In many physical systems, degrees of freedom are coupled \emph{via} hydrodynamic forces, even in the absence of Hamiltonian interactions. A particularly important and widespread example concerns the transport of microscopic particles in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-11 Juliette Lacherez , Maxime Lavaud , Yacine Amarouchene , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

A colloidal monolayer embedded in the bulk of a fluid experiences a "compressible", long-range hydrodynamic interaction which, far from boundaries, leads to a breakdown of Fick's law above a well defined length scale, showing up as…

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Particle motion of a Lennard-Jones supercooled liquid near the glass transition is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. We analyze the wave vector dependence of relaxation times in the incoherent self scattering function and show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. A. Stariolo , G. Fabricius

Single-file diffusion is a one-dimensional interacting infinite-particle system in which the order of particles never changes. An intriguing feature of single-file diffusion is that the mean-square displacement of a tagged particle exhibits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paul L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick , Tridib Sadhu

Single-file diffusion is a paradigmatic model for the transport of Brownian colloidal particles in narrow one-dimensional channels, such as those found in certain porous media, where the particles cannot cross each other. We consider a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-07 Benjamin Sorkin , David S. Dean

We investigate single-particle diffusion in a two-state Langevin model where the friction coefficient randomly switches between low-friction (liquid-like) and high-friction (glassy-like) states. The dynamics are governed by the ratio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Fivos Perakis , Takeshi Kawasaki , Shinji Saito

We study two-component single-file diffusion inside a narrow channel that at its ends is open and connected with particle reservoirs. Using a two-species version of the symmetric simple exclusion process as a model, we propose a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Brzank , Gunter M. Schuetz

Diffusion of impenetrable particles in a crowded one-dimensional channel is referred as the single file diffusion. The particles do not pass each other and the displacement of each individual particle is sub-diffusive. We analyse a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-18 Tridib Sadhu , Bernard Derrida

Transport of point-size Brownian particles under the influence of a constant and uniform force field through a three-dimensional channel with smoothly varying periodic cross-section is investigated. Here, we employ an asymptotic analysis in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-14 Steffen Martens , Gerhard Schmid , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi

We perform extensive MD simulations of two-dimensional systems of hard disks, focusing on the \emph{on}-collision statistical properties. We analyze the distribution functions of velocity, free flight time and free path length for packing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Alessandro Taloni , Yasmine Meroz , Adrián Huerta

Using random walk simulations we explore diffusive transport through monodisperse sphere packings over a range of packing fractions, $\phi$, in the vicinity of the jamming transition at $\phi_{c}$. Various diffusion properties are computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Dan S. Bolintineanu , Gary S. Grest , Jeremy B. Lechman , Leonardo E. Silbert

The diffusive transport of biased Brownian particles in a two-dimensional symmetric channel is investigated numerically considering both the no-flow and the reflection boundary conditions at the channel boundaries. Here, the geometrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-10 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

The path-integral representation of Smoluchowski equation is exploited to explore the stochastic dynamics of a tagged Brownian particle within an interacting system where hydrodynamic effects are neglected. In particular, this formalism is…

Single-file transport, which corresponds to the diffusion of particles that cannot overtake each other in narrow channels, is an important topic in out-of-equilibrium statistical physics. Various microscopic models of single-file systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-13 Pierre Rizkallah , Aurélien Grabsch , Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou

Brownian motion is essential for describing diffusion in systems ranging from simple to complex liquids. Unlike simple liquids, which consist of only a solvent, complex liquids, such as colloidal suspensions or the cytoplasm of a cell, are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-27 Jeffrey C. Everts , Robert Hołyst , Karol Makuch

Using our generalized Fick-Jacobs approach [Martens et al., PRL 110, 010601 (2013); Martens et al., Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Topics 222, 2453-2463 (2013)] and extensive Brownian dynamics simulations, we study particle transport through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Martens , A. V. Straube , G. Schmid , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi