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While the dynamics of polymer chains in equilibrium media is well understood by now, the polymer dynamics in active non-equilibrium environments can be very different. Here we study the dynamics of polymers in a viscous medium containing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-23 Jaeoh Shin , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Won Kyu Kim , Vasily Zaburdaev

We lay the theoretical and mathematical foundations of the square root of Browniam motion and we prove the existence of such a process. In doing so, we consider Brownian motion on quantized noncommutative Riemannian manifolds and show how a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 Marco Frasca , Alfonso Farina , Moawia Alghalith

The impact of polymer-polymer interactions of various types on the thermodynamics, structure, and accommodation of topological constraints is addressed for systems comprising many directed polymers in two spatial dimensions. The approach is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-04 D. Zeb Rocklin , Paul M. Goldbart

We develop a general framework for response theory in diffusion processes governed by Fokker-Planck equations, based on the notion of the Dissipation Function. Using the analytically solvable Brownian oscillator model, we derive exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-25 Matteo Colangeli , Lamberto Rondoni , Pasquale Vozza

We study the convergence of the empirical distribution associated with a system of interacting kinetic particles subject to independent Brownian forcing in a finite horizon setting, using some recent progress on kinetic non-linear partial…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Carlo Bellingeri , Fabio Coppini

A dynamical treatment of Markovian diffusion is presented and several applications discussed. The stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics is considered within this framework. A model for Brownian movement which includes second order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Davidson

In this paper, a generalized Brownian motion model has been applied to describe the relative particle dispersion problem in more realistic turbulent flows. The fluctuating pressure forces acting on a fluid particle are taken to be a colored…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

The explicit expression for the the probability distribution function of the endpoint fluctuations of one-dimensional directed polymers in random potential is derived in terms of the Bethe ansatz replica technique by mapping the replicated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Victor Dotsenko

We consider an overdamped Brownian particle, exposed to a two-dimensional, square lattice potential and a rectangular ac-drive. Depending on the driving amplitude, the linear response to a weak dc-force along a lattice symmetry axis consist…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Speer , R. Eichhorn , P. Reimann

Within Kirkwood theory, we study the translational diffusion coefficient of a single polymer chain in dilute solution, and focus on the small difference between the short--time Kirkwood value $D^{(K)}$ and the asymptotic long--time value…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Bo Liu , Burkhard Duenweg

Microscopic theory of Brownian motion of a particle of mass $M$ in a bath of molecules of mass $m\ll M$ is considered beyond lowest order in the mass ratio $m/M$. The corresponding Langevin equation contains nonlinear corrections to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-22 A. V. Plyukhin

We prove that given any fixed asymptotic velocity, the finite length O'Connell-Yor polymer has an infinite length limit satisfying the law of large numbers with this velocity. By a Markovian property of the quenched polymer this reduces to…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Tom Alberts , Firas Rassoul-Agha , Mackenzie Simper

Particles transported in fluid flows, such as cells, polymers, or nanorods, are rarely spherical. In this study, we numerically and theoretically investigate the dispersion of an initially localized patch of passive elongated Brownian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ajay Harishankar Kumar , Stuart J. Thomson , Thomas R. Powers , Daniel M. Harris

In this Letter, we clarify the physical origin of effective transport in periodic and tilted periodic systems. When Brownian dynamics is examined on the scale of a single period, the particle displacement admits a natural separation into a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Sang Yang , Zhixin Peng

Fick's law for coordinate dependent diffusivity is derived. Corresponding diffusion current in the presence of coordinate dependent diffusivity is consistent with the form as given by Kramers-Moyal expansion. We have obtained the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-01 A. Bhattacharyay

The exact analytical expressions for the time-dependent cross-correlations of the translational and rotational Brownian displacements of a particle with arbitrary shape were derived by us in [J. Chem. Phys. 142, 214902 (2015) and 144,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-09 B. Cichocki , M. L. Ekiel-Jezewska , E. Wajnryb

Recently O'Connell introduced an interacting diffusive particle system in order to study a directed polymer model in 1+1 dimensions. The infinitesimal generator of the process is a harmonic transform of the quantum Toda-lattice Hamiltonian…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-02 Makoto Katori

In the zero temperature Brownian semi-discrete directed polymer we study the joint distribution of two last-passage times at positions ordered in the time-like direction. This is the situation when we have the slow de-correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Kurt Johansson

We consider systems of Brownian particles in the space of positive definite matrices, which evolve independently apart from some simple interactions. We give examples of such processes which have an integrable structure. These are related…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Neil O'Connell

We investigate the influence of an external magnetic field (torque) on the motion of Brownian particles confined in a channel geometry with varying width. Furthermore, the particles are driven by random fluctuations modeled by the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 Paul K. Radtke , Lutz Schimansky-Geier