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Diffusive transport of a particle in spatially correlated random energy landscape having exponential density of states has been considered. We exactly calculate the diffusivity in the nondispersive quasi-equilibrium transport regime and…

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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…

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We consider a system of non-interacting Brownian particles on a line with a step-like initial condition, and we investigate the behavior of the local time at the origin at large times. We compute the mean and the variance of the local time,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-11 Ivan N. Burenev , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso

The ongoing characterization of hot Jupiters has motivated a variety of circulation models of their atmospheres. Such models must be integrated starting from an assumed initial state, which is typically taken to be a wind-free, rest state.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-12 Beibei Liu , Adam P. Showman

To identify first-order phase transitions in the dynamical process similar to the relativistic heavy-ion collisions, we investigate the dynamical behaviors of the first-order phase transition criterion in the Fokker-Planck framework. In the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Lijia Jiang , Fei Gao , Yu-xin Liu

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

The dynamics of individual colloidal particles in random potential energy landscapes were investigated experimentally and by Monte Carlo simulations. The value of the potential at each point in the two-dimensional energy landscape follows a…

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

Relaxation in open quantum systems is fundamental to quantum science and technologies. Yet, the influence of the initial state on relaxation remains a central, largely unanswered question. Here, by systematically characterizing the…

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Consider a particle diffusing in a confined volume which is divided into two equal regions. In one region the diffusion coefficient is twice the value of the diffusion coefficient in the other region. Will the particle spend equal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 P. F. Tupper , Xin Yang

Single-file transport, which corresponds to the diffusion of particles that cannot overtake each other in narrow channels, is an important topic in out-of-equilibrium statistical physics. Various microscopic models of single-file systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-13 Pierre Rizkallah , Aurélien Grabsch , Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou

We study numerically the influence of density and strain rate on the diffusion and mobility of a single tagged particle in a sheared colloidal suspension. We determine independently the time-dependent velocity autocorrelation functions and,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-01 Boris Lander , Udo Seifert , Thomas Speck

We analyze the influence of boundary conditions on numerical simulations of the diffusive properties of a two dimensional granular gas. We show in particular that periodic boundary conditions introduce unphysical correlations in time which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Henrique , G. Batrouni , D. Bideau

We study diffusion-controlled single-species annihilation with sparse initial conditions. In this random process, particles undergo Brownian motion, and when two particles meet, both disappear. We focus on sparse initial conditions where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We investigate a one-dimensional system of $N$ particles, initially distributed with random positions and velocities, interacting through binary collisions. The collision rule is such that there is a time after which the $N$ particles do…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Joceline Lega , Sunder Sethuraman , Alexander L Young

The effect of small noise in a smooth dynamical system is negligible on any finite time interval. Here we study situations when it persists on intervals increasing to infinity. Such asymptotic regime occurs when the system starts from…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 J. Baker , P. Chigansky , K. Hamza , F. C. Klebaner

We demonstrate that the Einstein relation for the diffusion of a particle in the random energy landscape with the Gaussian density of states is an exclusive 1D property and does not hold in higher dimensions. We also consider the analytical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-21 S. V. Novikov

We study the dynamics of a tracer in a dense mixture of particles connected to different thermostats. Starting from the overdamped Langevin equations that describe the evolution of the system, we derive the expression of the self-diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-28 Marie Jardat , Vincent Dahirel , Pierre Illien

Accumulation at boundaries represents a widely observed phenomenon in active systems with implications for microbial ecology and engineering applications. To rationalize the underlying physics, we provide analytical predictions for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Yanis Baouche , Mathis Guéneau , Christina Kurzthaler

Interacting particles diffusing in single-file is a fundamental model of transport in narrow channels where particles cannot bypass each other. An important result has been obtained by Kollmann [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 180602 (2003)] for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Théotim Berlioz , Olivier Bénichou , Aurélien Grabsch