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We apply macroscopic fluctuation theory to study the diffusion of a tracer in a one-dimensional interacting particle system with excluded mutual passage, known as single-file diffusion. In the case of Brownian point particles with hard-core…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick , Tridib Sadhu

We study the transport properties of a system of active particles moving at constant speed in an heterogeneous two-dimensional space. The spatial heterogeneity is modeled by a random distribution of obstacles, which the active particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani

The diffusion motions of individual polymer aggregates in disordered porous media were visualized using the single particle tracking (SPT) method because the motions inside porous media play important roles in various fields of science and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-24 Yusaku Abe , Naoki Tomioka , Yu Matsuda

Diffusive transport of particles or, more generally, small objects is a ubiquitous feature of physical and chemical reaction systems. In configurations containing confining walls or constrictions transport is controlled both by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-22 P. Sekhar Burada , Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni , Gerhard Schmid , Peter Talkner

Tracer diffusion in single-file systems, where particles are restricted to move on a line without passing each other, has been a fertile ground to investigate anomalous diffusion and strong memory effects. While the long-time behavior of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alexis Poncet , Aurélien Grabsch , Olivier Bénichou

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 study the dynamics of micron-sized particles on a layer of motile cells. This cell carpet acts as an active bath that propels passive tracer particles via direct mechanical contact. The resulting nonequilibrium transport shows a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Robert Großmann , Lara S. Bort , Ted Moldenhawer , Setareh Sharifi Panah , Ralf Metzler , Carsten Beta

We study the statistics of a tagged particle in single-file diffusion, a one-dimensional interacting infinite-particle system in which the order of particles never changes. We compute the two-time correlation function for the displacement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-18 P. L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick , Tridib Sadhu

We calculate the diffusion coefficient of an active tracer in a schematic crowded environment, represented as a lattice gas of passive particles with hardcore interactions. Starting from the master equation of the problem, we put forward a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-02 Pierre Rizkallah , Alessandro Sarracino , Olivier Bénichou , Pierre Illien

We introduce a model for active transport on inhomogeneous networks embedded in a diffusive environment and investigate the formation of particle clusters. In the presence of a hard-core interaction, cluster sizes exhibit an algebraically…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Philip Greulich , Ludger Santen

The diffusion of active microscopic organisms in complex environments plays an important role in a wide range of biological phenomena from cell colony growth to single organism transport. Here, we investigate theoretically and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Juan L. Aragones , Shahrzad Yazdi , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Tracer diffusion in crowded environments is central to many biological and soft matter systems, but quantitative frameworks for linking tracer motion to environmental structure remain limited. Here, we study the transport of rigid tracers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Jinseok Lee , Tong Lin , Mengyang Gu , Yimin Luo

We present the results of a numerical investigation of charged-particle transport across a synthesized magnetic configuration composed of a constant homogeneous background field and a multiscale perturbation component simulating an effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Chiaravalloti , Alexander V. Milovanov , Gaetano Zimbardo

Transport at small scales is classically understood within an equilibrium framework, where dispersion theory successfully describes shear-enhanced diffusion for passive particles in the continuum limit. However, as most bacteria can move on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-29 Mingyang Guan , Bowen Ling , Enhao Liu , Guoqian Chen , Zhan Wang

We study the transport of self-propelled particles in dynamic complex environments. To obtain exact results, we introduce a model of run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) moving in discrete time on a $d$-dimensional cubic lattice in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-12 Thibault Bertrand , Yongfeng Zhao , Olivier Bénichou , Julien Tailleur , Raphaël Voituriez

The standard setup for single-file diffusion is diffusing particles in one dimension which cannot overtake each other, where the dynamics of a tracer (tagged) particle is of main interest. In this article we generalise this system and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Robin Forsling , Lloyd Sanders , Tobias Ambjörnsson , Ludvig Lizana

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

We consider one-dimensional systems comprising either active run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) or passive Brownian random walkers. These particles are either noninteracting or have hardcore exclusions. We study the dynamics of a single tracer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-11 Tirthankar Banerjee , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

In this paper, which completes our earlier short publication [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 511 (2000)], we study dynamics of a hard-core tracer particle (TP) performing a biased random walk in an adsorbed monolayer, composed of mobile hard-core…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Benichou , A. M. Cazabat , J. De Coninck , M. Moreau , G. Oshanin

We study analytically the dynamics and the micro-structural changes of a host medium caused by a driven tracer particle moving in a confined, quiescent molecular crowding environment. Imitating typical settings of active micro-rheology…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-17 O. Bénichou , P. Illien , G. Oshanin , A. Sarracino , R. Voituriez