English
Related papers

Related papers: Anomalous diffusion in a space- and time-dependent…

200 papers

We consider a model system in which anomalous diffusion is generated by superposition of underlying linear modes with a broad range of relaxation times. In the language of Gaussian polymers, our model corresponds to Rouse (Fourier) modes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-11 Assaf Amitai , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

Normal diffusion in corrugated potentials with spatially uncorrelated Gaussian energy disorder famously explains the origin of non-Arrhenius $\exp[-\sigma^2/(k_BT^2)]$ temperature-dependence in disordered systems. Here we show that unbiased…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-24 Igor Goychuk , V. O. Kharchenko

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

The behavior of a confined spherical symmetric anomalous fluid under high external pressure was studied with Molecular Dynamics simulations. The fluid is modeled by a ore-softened potential with two characteristic length scales, which in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-21 José Rafael Bordin , Leandro B. Krott , Marcia C. B. Barbosa

A two dimensional self-gravitating Hamiltonian model made by $N$ fully-coupled classical particles exhibits a transition from a collapsing phase (CP) at low energy to a homogeneous phase (HP) at high energy. From a dynamical point of view,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Mickael Antoni , Alessandro Torcini

We propose a generalized diffusion equation for a flat Euclidean space subjected to a continuous infinitesimal scale transform. For the special cases of an algebraic or exponential expansion/contraction, governed by time-dependent scale…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-17 Manuel Schrauth , Maximilian Schneider

We consider a one-dimensional fermionic lattice system with long-ranged power-law decaying hopping with exponent $\alpha$. The system is further subjected to dephasing noise in the bulk. We investigate two variants of the problem: (i) an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Abhinav Dhawan , Katha Ganguly , Manas Kulkarni , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

Non-equilibrium diffusive systems are known to exhibit long-range correlations, which decay like the inverse 1/L of the system size L in one dimension. Here, taking the example of the ABC model, we show that this size dependence becomes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Antoine Gerschenfeld , Bernard Derrida

Rugged (or, rough) energy landscape (REL) with spatially distributed maxima and minima are often employed in applications of physics, chemistry and biology (enzyme kinetics, protein folding, diffusion in disordered solids, transport in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-18 Kazuhiko Seki , Kaushik Bagchi , Biman Bagchi

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

Heterogeneous diffusion with spatially changing diffusion coefficient arises in many experimental systems like protein dynamics in the cell cytoplasm, mobility of cajal bodies and confined hard-sphere fluids. Here, we showcase a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-14 Prashant Singh

Energetic particles spectra at interplanetary shocks often exhibit a power law within a narrow momentum range softening at higher energy. We introduce a transport equation accounting for particle acceleration and escape with diffusion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Federico Fraschetti

For a distribution advected by a simple chaotic map with diffusion, the "strange eigenmode" is investigated from the Lagrangian (material) viewpoint and compared to its Eulerian (spatial) counterpart. The eigenmode embodies the balance…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-12-12 Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We demonstrate that light is subject to anomalous (i.e., negative) diffraction when propagating in the presence of hyperbolic dispersion. We show that light propagation in hyperbolic media resembles the dynamics of a quantum particle of…

A number of results for reactions involving subdiffusive species all with the same anomalous exponent gamma have recently appeared in the literature and can often be understood in terms of a subordination principle whereby time t in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. B. Yuste , Katja Lindenberg

We study here the random diffusion model. This is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field $\phi$ driven by diffusive dynamics. The interesting feature of the dynamics is that the {\it bare} diffusion coefficient $D$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gene F. Mazenko

Bias plays an important role in the enhancement of diffusion in periodic potentials. Using the continuous-time random walk in the presence of a bias, we provide a novel mechanism for the enhancement of diffusion in a random energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-15 Takuma Akimoto , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Ralf Metzler

We review some recent results on the anomalous diffusion of energy in systems of 1D coupled oscillators and we revisit the role of momentum conservation.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-08 Cédric Bernardin

We investigate the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements for particle diffusion in a simple model for disordered media by assuming that the local diffusivity is both fluctuating in time and has a deterministic average growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. G. Cherstvy , R. Metzler

The problem of anomalous diffusion in the momentum space is considered on the basis of the appropriate probability transition function (PTF). New general equation for description of the diffusion of heavy particles in the gas of the light…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. A. Trigger