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The influence of crowding on the diffusion of tagged particles in a dense medium is investigated in the framework of a mean-field model, derived in the continuum limit from a microscopic stochastic process with exclusion. The probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Amos Maritan , Francesco Piazza

The interplay of membrane proteins is vital for many biological processes, such as cellular transport, cell division, and signal transduction between nerve cells. Theoretical considerations have led to the idea that the membrane itself…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-28 Casper van der Wel , Afshin Vahid , Anđela Šarić , Timon Idema , Doris Heinrich , Daniela J. Kraft

We consider processes that coincide with a given diffusion process except on the boundaries of a finite collection of domains. The behavior on each of the boundaries is asymmetric: the process is much more likely to enter the interior of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Mark Freidlin , Leonid Koralov

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

We study anomalous transport arising in disordered one-dimensional spin chains, specifically focusing on the subdiffusive transport typically found in a phase preceding the many-body localization transition. Different types of transport can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-09 Maximilian Schulz , Scott R. Taylor , Antonello Scardicchio , Marko Žnidarič

Enhanced diffusion, which describes the accelerated spread of passive scalars due to the interaction between advection and molecular diffusion, has been extensively studied in simplified geometries, such as uniform shear and radial flows.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

By performing molecular dynamics simulations with up to 132 million coarse-grained particles in half-micron sized boxes, we show that hydrodynamics quantitatively explains the finite-size effects on diffusion of lipids, proteins, and carbon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-04 Martin Vögele , Jürgen Köfinger , Gerhard Hummer

In this work we study analytically and numerically the transport properties of non-interacting active particles moving on a $d$-dimensional disordered media. The disorder in the space is modeled by means of a set of non-overlapping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-20 R. Salgado-García

We introduce the concept of Randomly Modulated Gaussian Processes as a unifying framework for modeling, analyzing and classifying anomalous diffusion models in heterogeneous media. This formulation incorporates correlations in the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yann Lanoiselée , Denis S. Grebenkov , Gianni Pagnini

A one-dimensional (1-D) anomalous-diffusive molecular communication channel is considered, wherein the devices (transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX)) can move in either direction along the axis. For modeling the anomalous diffusion of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Lokendra Chouhan , Prabhat Kumar Upadhyay , Prabhat Kumar Sharma , Anas M. Salhab

The surrounding world surprises us by the beauty and variety of complex shapes that emerge from nanometric to macroscopic scales. Natural or manufactured materials (sandstones, sedimentary rocks and cement), colloidal solutions (proteins…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-10 Denis Grebenkov

With the use of the "two-fluid model", we discuss anomalous diffusion induced by active force dipoles in viscoelastic media. Active force dipoles, such as proteins and bacteria, generate non-thermal fluctuating flows that lead to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-29 Kento Yasuda , Ryuichi Okamoto , Shigeyuki Komura

We consider the diffusion-advection problem in two simple cellular flow models (often invoked as examples for subdiffusive tracer's motion) and concentrate on the intermediate time range, in which the tracer's motion indeed may show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-28 Patrick Pöschke , Igor M. Sokolov , Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy , Michael A. Zaks

Diffusion on a quenched heterogeneous environment in the presence of bias is considered analytically. The first-passage-time statistics can be applied to obtain the drift and the diffusion coefficient in periodic quenched environments. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Takuma Akimoto , Keiji Saito

Anomalous diffusion is present at all scales, from atomic to large scales. Some exemplary systems are; ultra-cold atoms, telomeres in the nucleus of cells, moisture transport in cement-based materials, the free movement of arthropods, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Òscar Garibo-i-Orts , Nicolás Firbas , Laura Sebastiá , J. Alberto Conejero

We present the model of a diffusion-absorption process in a system which consists of two media separated by a thin partially permeable membrane. The kind of diffusion as well as the parameters of the process may be different in both media.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

Anomalous diffusion processes, in particular superdiffusive ones, are known to be efficient strategies for searching and navigation by animals and also in human mobility. One way to create such regimes are L\'evy flights, where the walkers…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-22 Sarah de Nigris , Timoteo Carletti , Renaud Lambiotte

The rapid advancements in machine learning have made its application to anomalous diffusion analysis both essential and inevitable. This review systematically introduces the integration of machine learning techniques for enhanced analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wenjie Cai , Yi Hu , Xiang Qu , Hui Zhao , Gongyi Wang , Jing Li , Zihan Huang

In living cells, intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), such as FUS and DDX4, undergo phase separation, forming biomolecular condensates. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate their behavior in their respective homogenous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-04 Fuga Watanabe , Takuma Akimoto , Robert B. Best , Kresten Lindorff-Larsen , Ralf Metzler , Eiji Yamamoto

Using the advection-diffusion equation, we analytically study contaminant transport in a sharply contrasting medium with a diffusion barrier due to localization of a contaminant source in a low-permeability medium. Anomalous diffusion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-28 O. A. Dvoretskaya , P. S. Kondratenko