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Diffusion-coagulation can be simply described by a dynamic where particles perform a random walk on a lattice and coalesce with probability unity when meeting on the same site. Such processes display non-equilibrium properties with strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-13 L. Turban , J. -Y. Fortin

We study the Fokker-Planck diffusion equation with diffusion coefficient depending periodically on the space variable. Inside a periodic array of inclusions the diffusion coefficient is reduced by a factor called the diffusion magnitude. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 M. Amar , D. Andreucci , E. N. M. Cirillo

There have been increasing reports that the diffusion coefficient of macromolecules depends on time and fluctuates randomly. Here, a novel method to elucidate the fluctuating diffusivity from trajectory data is developed. The time-averaged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Tomoshige Miyaguchi

We analyze the fluctuations of the dissipated energy in a simple and general model where dissipation, diffusion and driving are the key ingredients. The large deviation function for the dissipation follows from hydrodynamic fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-06 A. Prados , A. Lasanta , Pablo I. Hurtado

We study the position of a biased tracer particle (TP) in a bath of hardcore particles moving on a lattice of arbitrary dimension and in contact with a reservoir. Starting from the master equation satisfied by the joint probability of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-09 Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou , Gleb Oshanin , Raphaël Voituriez

We study in detail a one-dimensional lattice model of a continuum, conserved field (mass) that is transferred deterministically between neighbouring random sites. The model falls in a wider class of lattice models capturing the joint effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-01 Stefano Lepri , Paolo Politi , Arkady Pikovsky

The analysis of the dynamics of tracer particles in a complex bath can provide valuable information about the microscopic behaviour of the bath. In this work, we study the dynamics of a forced tracer in a colloidal bath by means of Langevin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-24 Francisco Orts , Gloria Ortega , Ester M. Garzon , Matthias Fuchs , Antonio M. Puertas

Including the effect of thermal fluctuations in traditional computational fluid dynamics requires developing numerical techniques for solving the stochastic partial differential equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics. These Langevin…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Delong , B. E. Griffith , E. Vanden-Eijnden , A. Donev

We discuss metric perturbations of the relativistic diffusion equation around the homogeneous Juttner equilibrium of massless particles in a homogeneous expanding universe. The metric perturbation describes matter distribution and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-27 Z. Haba

Non-reciprocal interactions play a key role in shaping transport in active and passive systems, giving rise to striking nonequilibrium behavior. Here, we study the dynamics of a tracer -- active or passive -- embedded in a bath of active or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-08 Subhajit Paul , Debasish Chaudhuri

We propose a unified method for the large space-time scaling limit of \emph{linear} collisional kinetic equations in the whole space. The limit is of \emph{fractional} diffusion type for heavy tail equilibria with slow enough decay, and of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Emeric Bouin , Clément Mouhot

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

We consider transport diffusion in a stochastic billiard in a random tube which is elongated in the direction of the first coordinate (the tube axis). Inside the random tube, which is stationary and ergodic, non-interacting particles move…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Francis Comets , Serguei Popov , Gunter M. Schütz , Marina Vachkovskaia

We consider a diffusion in a Gaussian random environment that is white in time and study the large-scale behavior of the quenched density with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We show that under diffusive rescaling, the fluctuations of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Sotirios Kotitsas , Dejun Luo , Mario Maurelli

We revisit the work of Mitter and Newton on an information-theoretic interpretation of Bayes' formula through the Gibbs variational principle. This formulation allowed them to pose nonlinear estimation for diffusion processes as a problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Maxim Raginsky

The mass transfer of interstitial impurities in a crystalline lattice under the influence of the fast-moving deformation disturbance of the type of a shock wave is considered. The velocity of the movement of the disturbance is supposed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Buchbinder

We obtain hydrodynamic descriptions of a broad class of conserved-mass transport processes on a ring. These processes are governed by chipping, diffusion and coalescence of masses, where microscopic probability weights in their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-06 Arghya Das , Anupam Kundu , Punyabrata Pradhan

We develop numerical methods for reaction-diffusion systems based on the equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics (FHD). While the FHD formulation is formally described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), it becomes similar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Changho Kim , Andy Nonaka , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Aleksandar Donev

Diffusion is the result of repeated random scattering. It governs a wide range of phenomena from Brownian motion, to heat flow through window panes, neutron flux in fuel rods, dispersion of light in human tissue, and electronic conduction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Zhou Shi , Azriel Z. Genack

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a central result in statistical mechanics and is usually formulated for systems described by diffusion processes. In this paper, we propose a generalization for a wider class of stochastic processes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-20 Alberto Montefusco , Mark A. Peletier , Hans Christian Öttinger