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We present analytical results for the biased diffusion of particles moving under a constant force in a randomly layered medium. The influence of this medium on the particle dynamics is modeled by a piecewise constant random force. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-10 S. I. Denisov , H. Kantz

We introduce a model of self-propelled particles carrying out a Brownian motion with a diffusion coefficient which depends on the local density of particles within a certain finite radius. Numerical simulations show that in a range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristobal Lopez

We show that anomalous diffusion arises in two different models for the motion of randomly forced and weakly damped particles: one is a generalisation of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with a random force which depends on position as well…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-05 Vlad Bezuglyy , Michael Wilkinson , Bernhard Mehlig

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

This paper is devoted to the anomalous diffusion limit of kinetic equations with a fractional Fokker-Planck collision operator in a spatially bounded domain. We consider two boundary conditions at the kinetic scale: absorption and specular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Ludovic Cesbron

We present a thermo-kinetic description of anomalous diffusion of single-particles and clusters in a viscoelastic medium in terms of a non-Markovian diffusion equation involving memory functions. The scaling behaviour of these functions is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Santamaria-Holek , J. M. Rubi , A. Gadomski

Large scale simulations and analytical theory have been combined to obtain the non-equilibrium velocity distribution, $f(v)$, of randomly accelerated particles in suspension. The simulations are based on an event-driven algorithm,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-09 Andrea Fiege , Benjamin Vollmayr-Lee , Annette Zippelius

We consider anomalous non-Markovian transport of Brownian particles in viscoelastic fluid-like media with very large but finite macroscopic viscosity under the influence of a constant force field F. The viscoelastic properties of the medium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-24 Igor Goychuk

Anomalous diffusion is an established phenomenon but still a theoretical challenge in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Physical models are built incrementally, and the most recent and most general family is based on the fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Christian Bender , Yana A. Butko , Mirko D'Ovidio , Gianni Pagnini

Stochastic motion of particles in a highly unstable potential generates a number of diverging trajectories leading to undefined statistical moments of the particle position. This makes experiments challenging and breaks down a standard…

Measurements of protein motion in living cells and membranes consistently report transient anomalous diffusion (subdiffusion) which converges back to a Brownian motion with reduced diffusion coefficient at long times, after the anomalous…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Hédi Soula , Bertrand Caré , Guillaume Beslon , Hugues Berry

Anomalous diffusion is the fundamental ansatz of phenomenological theories of passive scalar turbulence, and has been confirmed numerically and experimentally to an extraordinary extent. The purpose of this survey is to discuss our recent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Scott Armstrong , Vlad Vicol

In a very long Gaussian polymer on time scales shorter that the maximal relaxation time, the mean squared distance travelled by a tagged monomer grows as ~t^{1/2}. We analyze such sub-diffusive behavior in the presence of one or two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

This review article aims to stress and reunite some of the analytic formalism of the anomalous diffusive processes that have succeeded in their description. Also, it has the objective to discuss which of the new directions they have taken…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-28 Maike A. F. dos Santos

Diffusion in nonhomogeneous media is described by a dynamical process driven by a general Levy noise and subordinated to a random time; the subordinator depends on the position. This problem is approximated by a multiplicative process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tomasz Srokowski

Anomalous diffusion is frequently described by scaled Brownian motion (SBM), a Gaussian process with a power-law time dependent diffusion coefficient. Its mean squared displacement is $\langle x^2(t)\rangle\simeq\mathscr{K}(t)t$ with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 J. -H. Jeon , A. V. Chechkin , R. Metzler

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

Diffusive transport of a particle in spatially correlated random energy landscape having exponential density of states has been considered. We exactly calculate the diffusivity in the nondispersive quasi-equilibrium transport regime and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-14 S. V. Novikov

We discuss the diffusion phenomenon in the parabolic and hyperbolic regimes. New effects related to the finite velocity of the diffusion process are predicted, that can partially explain the strange behavior associated to adsorption…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 A. Sapora , M. Codegone , G. Barbero

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