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Strong positional correlations between particles render the diffusion of a tracer particle in a single file anomalous and non-Markovian. While ensemble average observables of tracer particles are nowadays well understood, little is known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-15 Alessio Lapolla , Aljaz Godec

An increasing number of experimental studies employ single particle tracking to probe the physical environment in complex systems. We here propose and discuss new methods to analyze the time series of the particle traces, in particular, for…

Single-file diffusion is a paradigmatic model for the transport of Brownian colloidal particles in narrow one-dimensional channels, such as those found in certain porous media, where the particles cannot cross each other. We consider a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-07 Benjamin Sorkin , David S. Dean

Light diffusion is usually associated with thick, opaque media. Indeed, multiple scattering is necessary for the onset of the diffusive regime and such condition is generally not met in almost transparent media. Nonetheless, at long enough…

Many lamellar systems exhibit strongly anisotropic diffusion. When the diffusion across the lamellae is slow, an alternative mechanism for transverse transport becomes important. A tracer particle can propagate in the direction normal to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor Gurarie , Alexander E. Lobkovsky

A tracer particle is called anomalously diffusive if its mean squared displacement grows approximately as $\sigma^2 t^{\alpha}$ as a function of time $t$ for some constant $\sigma^2$, where the diffusion exponent satisfies $\alpha \neq 1$.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-17 Kui Zhang , Katelyn P. R. Crizer , Mark H. Schoenfisch , David B. Hill , Gustavo Didier

The symmetric simple exclusion process (SEP) is a paradigmatic model of diffusion in a single-file geometry, in which the particles cannot cross. In this model, the study of currents have attracted a lot of attention. In particular, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-09 Aurélien Grabsch , Pierre Rizkallah , Olivier Bénichou

The diffusion of particles in complex media has gained significant interest due to its dual relevance: probing the viscoelastic properties of materials via microrheology and assessing the extent of particle displacement over time. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-24 Fabian A. Garcia Daza , Alvaro Rodriguez-Rivas , Fernando Govantes , Alejandro Cuetos

Subdiffusive motion of tracer particles in complex crowded environments, such as biological cells, has been shown to be widepsread. This deviation from brownian motion is usually characterized by a sublinear time dependence of the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Condamin , V. Tejedor , R. Voituriez , O. Benichou , J. Klafter

We study the effect of a single driven tracer particle in a bath of other particles performing the random average process on an infinite line using a stochastic hydrodynamics approach. We consider arbitrary fixed as well as random initial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-03 A. Kundu , J. Cividini

Diffusion of colloidal particles in a complex environment such as polymer networks or biological cells is a topic of high complexity with significant biological and medical relevance. In such situations, the interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-10 Andreas M. Menzel

In this paper, we study a macroscopic system of electrically interacting metallic beads organized as a sequence along an annulus. A random mechanical shaking mimics the thermal excitation. We exhibit non Fickian diffusion (Single File…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Christophe Coste , Jean-Baptiste Delfau , Catherine Even , Michel Saint Jean

Single-particle traces of the diffusive motion of molecules, cells, or animals are by-now routinely measured, similar to stochastic records of stock prices or weather data. Deciphering the stochastic mechanism behind the recorded dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-14 Henrik Seckler , Janusz Szwabinski , Ralf Metzler

We investigate the dynamics of a single tracer exploring a course of fixed obstacles in the vicinity of the percolation transition for particles confined to the infinite cluster. The mean-square displacement displays anomalous transport,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Markus Spanner , Felix Höfling , Gerd Schröder-Turk , Klaus Mecke , Thomas Franosch

The single file diffusion in a circular channel of millimetric charged balls is studied. The evolution in time of the mean square displacement is shown to be subdiffusive, but slower than the power-like $t^{1/2}$ behavior observed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gwennou Coupier , Michel Saint Jean , Claudine Guthmann

We consider a gas of point particles moving in a one-dimensional channel with a hard-core inter-particle interaction that prevents particle crossings --- this is called single-file motion. Starting from equilibrium initial conditions we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-15 Chaitra Hegde , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Abhishek Dhar

The path-integral representation of Smoluchowski equation is exploited to explore the stochastic dynamics of a tagged Brownian particle within an interacting system where hydrodynamic effects are neglected. In particular, this formalism is…

We consider a gas of point particles moving on the one-dimensional line with a hard-core inter-particle interaction that prevents particle crossings --- this is usually referred to as single-file motion. The individual particle dynamics can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-15 Sanjib Sabhapandit , Abhishek Dhar

We study the diffusion of a tracer particle, which moves in continuum space between a lattice of excluded volume, immobile non-inert obstacles. In particular, we analyse how the strength of the tracer-obstacle interactions and the volume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-12-24 Surya K. Ghosh , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Ralf Metzler

We derive and study a theoretical description for single file diffusion, i.e., diffusion in a one dimensional lattice of particles with hard core interaction. It is well known that for this system a tagged particle has anomalous diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-08 Gonzalo Suárez , Miguel Hoyuelos , Héctor O. Mártin