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Many processes in cell biology involve diffusion in a domain $\Omega$ that contains a target $\calU$ whose boundary $\partial \calU$ is a chemically reactive surface. Such a target could represent a single reactive molecule, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-06 Paul C. Bressloff

In nanoscale space and pico- to nanoseconds enormous physical, chemical and biological processes take place, while the motions of involved particles/molecules under thermal fluctuations are usually analyzed using the conventional theory of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-01 Nan Sheng , YuSong Tu , Pan Guo , RongZheng Wan , ZuoWei Wang , HaiPing Fang

An overview of the author's papers on the new approach to the Brownian coagulation theory and its generalization to the diffusion-limited reaction rate theory is presented. The traditional diffusion approach of the Smoluchowski theory for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Mikhail S. Veshchunov

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

In this paper, we first focus on the speed selection problem for the reaction-diffusion equation of the monostable type. By investigating the decay rates of the minimal traveling wave front, we propose a sufficient and necessary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Chang-Hong Wu , Dongyuan Xiao , Maolin Zhou

We report new results about the two-time dynamics of an anomalously diffusing classical particle, as described by the generalized Langevin equation with a frequency-dependent noise and the associated friction. The noise is defined by its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Noelle Pottier

Here, an approach in terms of shot noise is proposed to study and characterize surface diffusion and low vibrational motion when having interacting adsorbates on surfaces. In what we call statistical limit, that is, at long times and high…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Martinez-Casado , J. L. Vega , A. S. Sanz , S. Miret-Artes

The diffusion equation is a universal and standard textbook model for partial differential equations (PDEs). In this work, we revisit its solutions, seeking, in particular, self-similar profiles. This problem connects to the classical…

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We study numerically the phase behavior of self-propelled elliptical particles interacting through the "hard" repulsive Gay-Berne potential at infinite P\'eclet number. Changing a single parameter, the aspect ratio, allows to continuously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-12 Ashreya Jayaram , Andreas Fischer , Thomas Speck

Quantum Brownian motion in a periodic cosine potential is studied and a simple estimate of the tunneling effect is obtained in the frames of a quasi-equilibrium semiclassical approach. It is shown that the latter is applicable for heavy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 R. Tsekov

Invasion phenomena for heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations are contemporary and challenging questions in applied mathematics. In this paper we are interested in the question of spreading for a reaction-diffusion equation when the…

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The problem of mass diffusion in layered systems has relevance to applications in different scientific disciplines, e.g., chemistry, material science, soil science, and biomedical engineering. The mathematical challenge in these type of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Oded Farago

We investigate a mean-field approach to a quantum brownian particle interacting with a quantum thermal bath at temperature $T$, and subjected to a non-linear potential. An exact, partially classical description of quantum brownian motion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. E. Allahverdyan , R. Balian , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

We re-consider the old problem of Brownian motion in homogeneous high-temperature thermal environment. The semiclassical theory implies that the diffusion coefficient does not depend on whether the thermal fluctuations are correlated in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-16 Dekel Shapira , Doron Cohen

We study the heat equation on a half-space with a linear dynamical boundary condition. Our main aim is to show that, if the diffusion coefficient tends to infinity, then the solutions converge (in a suitable sense) to solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Marek Fila , Kazuhiro Ishige , Tatsuki Kawakami

Consider a collection of particles whose state evolution is described through a system of interacting diffusions in which each particle is driven by an independent individual source of noise and also by a small amount of noise that is…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Amarjit Budhiraja , Michael Conroy

A system of $N$ weakly interacting particles whose dynamics is given in terms of jump-diffusions with a common factor is considered. The common factor is described through another jump-diffusion and the coefficients of the evolution…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-18 A. Budhiraja , E. Kira , Subhamay Saha

In this paper we consider a one-dimensional nonlocal interaction equation with quadratic porous-medium type diffusion in which the interaction kernels are attractive, nonnegative, and integrable on the real line. Earlier results in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Marco Di Francesco , Yahya Jaafra

We consider a model of Non-Brownian self-propelled particles with anti-alignment interactions where particles try to avoid each other by attempting to turn into opposite directions. The particles undergo apparent Brownian motion, even…

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