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A model for anomalous transport of tracer particles diffusing in complex media in two dimensions is proposed. The model takes into account the characteristics of persistent motion that active bath transfer to the tracer, thus the model…

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We investigate the dynamics of a massive tracer particle coupled to an interacting active bath, modeled as a harmonic chain of overdamped active particles analytically, with an aim to understand the impact of bath interactions and activity…

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We describe a two-dimensional model for active particles whose self-propulsion speed is not fixed, but varies in time, and whose motion is subject to both translational and rotational diffusion. In the conventional treatment of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Tayeb Jamali

It is discussed the limitations of the widely used markovian approximation applied to model the turbulent refractive index in lightwave propagation. It is well-known the index is a passive scalar field. Thus, the actual knowledge about…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dario G. Perez , Luciano Zunino , Mario Garavaglia

It is well known that on long time scales the behaviour of tracer particles diffusing in a cellular flow is effectively that of a Brownian motion. This paper studies the behaviour on "intermediate" time scales before diffusion sets in.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Gautam Iyer , Alexei Novikov

The estimation of (n-1)2 interdiffusion coefficients in an n component system requires (n-1) diffusion paths to intersect or pass closely in the (n-1) dimensional space according to the body diagonal diffusion couple method. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-16 Anuj Dash , Aloke Paul

Molecular dynamics simulations and a stochastic Fokker-Planck equation based approach are used to illuminate how position-dependent solvent mobility near one or more tracer particle(s) is affected when tracer-solvent interactions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-01 James Carmer , Avni Jain , Jonathan A. Bollinger , Frank van Swol , Thomas M. Truskett

Many stochastic processes in the physical and biological sciences can be modelled as Brownian dynamics with multiplicative noise. However, numerical integrators for these processes can lose accuracy or even fail to converge when the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Dominic Phillips , Charles Matthews , Benedict Leimkuhler

Low-dimensional periodic arrays of scatterers with a moving point particle are ideal models for studying deterministic diffusion. For such systems the diffusion coefficient is typically an irregular function under variation of a control…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Klages , N. Korabel

Simultaneous diffusive and inertial motion of Brownian particles in laminar Couette flow is investigated via Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions to determine the effect of particle inertia on diffusive transport in the long-time. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-13 Yannis Drossinos , Michael W. Reeks

We consider the driven diffusion of Brownian particles in 1D periodic potentials using the recently proposed Stochastic Path Integral Hyperdynamics (SPHD) scheme [L.Y. Chen and L.J.M. Horing, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 126}, 224103 (2007)]. First,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-04 Mahendra D. Khandkar , L. Y. Chen , S. C. Ying , T. Ala-Nissila

When a particle diffuses in a medium with spatially dependent friction coefficient $\alpha(r)$ at constant temperature $T$, it drifts toward the low friction end of the system even in the absence of any real physical force $f$. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

We study the problem of lateral diffusion on a static, quasi-planar surface generated by a stationary, ergodic random field possessing rapid small-scale spatial fluctuations. The aim is to study the effective behaviour of a particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-03 A. B. Duncan

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

We characterize the dynamic non-equilibrium steady state behavior of active particles using density fluctuations in the system. We analyze the effective local density around a particle in the steady state and numerically calculate its mean,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jayam Joshi , Pawan Kumar Mishra , Shradha Mishra

We find an exact series solution for the steady-state probability distribution of a harmonically trapped active Brownian particle in two dimensions, in the presence of translational diffusion. This series solution allows us to efficiently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Kanaya Malakar , Arghya Das , Anupam Kundu , K. Vijay Kumar , Abhishek Dhar

We study the stationary dynamics of an active interacting Brownian particle system. We measure the violations of the fluctuation dissipation theorem, and the corresponding effective temperature, in a locally resolved way. Quite naturally,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-29 Isabella Petrelli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

A possible way to calculate particle spectra as a function of position in pulsar wind nebulae is to solve a Fokker-Planck transport equation. This paper presents numerical solutions to the transport equation with the processes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-24 M. J. Vorster , H. Moraal

We study the asymptotic and pre-asymptotic diffusive properties of Brownian particles in channels whose section varies periodically in space. The effective diffusion coefficient $D_{\mathrm{eff}}$ is numerically determined by the asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-11 Giuseppe Forte , Fabio Cecconi , Angelo Vulpiani

We present a study on the dynamics of a system consisting of a pair of hardcore particles diffusing with different rates. We solved the drift-diffusion equation for this model in the case when one particle, labeled F, drifts and diffuses…

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