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We experimentally, numerically and analytically explore the diffusive transport of active colloidal particles with sensory delay, navigating motility landscapes in which the self-propulsion speed depends on space. We show how the transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Adrià Garcés , Ueli Töpfer , Lucio Isa , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Since the dawn of the space age, observations of energetic particles in planetary radiation belts have been interpreted within a diffusive transport framework, even though the processes that populate and deplete these belts produce highly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Adnane Osmane , Xin An , Anton Artemyev , Oliver Allanson , Jay Albert , Miroslav Hanzelka

We investigate the dynamic behavior of optical vortices, or phase singularities, in random wavefields and demonstrate the direct experimental observation of the anomalous diffusion of optical vortices. The observed subdiffusion of optical…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jiaxing Gong , Qi Li , Jing Wang

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

Continuous-time random walks offer powerful coarse-grained descriptions of transport processes. We here microscopically derive such a model for a Brownian particle diffusing in a deep periodic potential. We determine both the waiting-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-21 Andreas Dechant , Farina Kindermann , Artur Widera , Eric Lutz

The problem of anomalous diffusion in momentum (velocity) space is considered based on the master equation and the appropriate probability transition function (PTF). The approach recently developed by the author for coordinate space, is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger

Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion is observed in several biological and soft matter systems, yet the underlying mechanisms behind the emergence of non-Gaussianity while retaining a linear mean square displacement remain speculative. Here,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-06 Indrani Chakraborty , Yael Roichman

Diffusive motion is a fundamental transport mechanism in physical and biological systems, governing dynamics across a wide range of scales -- from molecular transport to animal foraging. In many complex systems, however, diffusion deviates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Takuma Akimoto , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Tomoshige Miyaguchi , Takashi Uneyama , Eiji Yamamoto

Diffusion of tracer particles in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells is often anomalous with a marked heterogeneity even within individual particle trajectories. Despite considerable efforts, the mechanisms behind these observations have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Adal Sabri , Xinran Xu , Diego Krapf , Matthias Weiss

This article introduces a novel construction of the two-dimensional fractional Brownian motion (2D fBm) with dependent components. Unlike similar models discussed in the literature, our approach uniquely accommodates the full range of model…

Chemically fueled supramolecular systems can exhibit complex, time-dependent behaviors reminiscent of living matter when maintained far from equilibrium by continuous energy or fuel consumption. Here, we introduce a minimal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 Akta Singh , Nayana Mukherjee , Jagannath Mondal , Pushpita Ghosh

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

In recent years, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy has been increasingly applied for the study of polymer dynamics on the nanometer scale. The core idea is to extract, from a measured autocorrelation curve, an effective mean-square…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joerg Enderlein

The resolution of Brownian motion in simulations of micro-particle suspensions can be crucial to reproducing the correct dynamics of individual particles, as well as providing an accurate characterisation of suspension properties. Including…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Eric E. Keaveny

In contrast to normal diffusion, there is no canonical model for reactions between chemical species which move by anomalous subdiffusion. Indeed, the type of mesoscopic equation describing reaction-subdiffusion depends on subtle assumptions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-23 Sean D Lawley

This paper is concerned with a non-homogeneous in space and non-local in time random walk model for anomalous subdiffusive transport of cells. Starting with a Markov model involving a structured probability density function, we derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-21 S. Fedotov , A. O. Ivanov , A. Y. Zubarev

We introduce a novel simulation method that is designed to explore fluctuations of the phasonic degrees of freedom in decagonal colloidal quasicrystals. Specifically, we attain and characterise thermal equilibrium of the phason ensemble via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 Johannes Hielscher , Miriam Martinsons , Michael Schmiedeberg , Sebastian C. Kapfer

We study the translocation of polymers across varying-section channels. Using systematic approximations, we derive a simplified model that reduces the problem of polymer translocation through varying-section channels to that of a point-like…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-13 Valentino Bianco , Paolo Malgaretti

We show that the generalized diffusion coefficient of a subdiffusive intermittent map is a fractal function of control parameters. A modified continuous time random walk theory yields its coarse functional form and correctly describes a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 N. Korabel , A. V. Chechkin , R. Klages , I. M. Sokolov , V. Yu. Gonchar

Recent studies unveiled the Fickian yet non-Gaussian (FNG) dynamics of many soft matter systems and suggested this phenomenon as a general characteristic of the diffusion in complex fluids. In particular, it was shown that the distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-24 Alejandro Cuetos , Neftalí Morillo , Alessandro Patti