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All liquids are topologically disordered materials; however, the degree of disorder can vary as a result of internal fluctuations in structure and topology. These fluctuations depend on both the composition and temperature of the system.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-15 Katelyn A. Kirchner , Seong H. Kim , John C. Mauro

Active glasses refer to a class of driven non-equilibrium systems that share remarkably similar dynamical behavior as conventional glass-formers in equilibrium. Glass-like dynamical characteristics have been observed in various biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-24 Subhodeep Dey , Smarajit Karmakar

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

Thermal motion in complex fluids is a complicated stochastic process but ubiquitously exhibits initial ballistic, intermediate sub-diffusive, and long-time non-Gaussian diffusive motion, unless interrupted. Despite its relevance to numerous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-09-04 Sanggeun Song , Seong Jun Park , Bong June Sung , Jun Soo Kim , Ji-Hyun Kim , Jaeyoung Sung

We are interested in exploring interacting particle systems that can be seen as microscopic models for a particular structure of coupled transport flux arising when different populations are jointly evolving. The scenarios we have in mind…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Manh Hong Duong , Adrian Muntean , Omar Richardson

We derive an analytical pair potential of mean force for Brownian molecules in the liquid-state. Our approach accounts for many-particle correlations of crowding particles of the liquid, and for diffusive transport across the spatially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-21 Alessio Zaccone , Eugene M. Terentjev

We calculate the bulk-diffusion coefficient and the conductivity in a broad class of conserved-mass aggregation processes on a ring of discrete sites. These processes involve chipping and fragmentation of masses, which diffuse around and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Subhadip Chakraborti , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Arghya Das , Rahul Dandekar , Punyabrata Pradhan

The physics of diffusion phenomena in nano and micro channels has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, due to its close connection with many technological, medical and industrial applications. In the present paper we employ a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-30 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We introduce a schematic non-linear diffusion model where density fluctuations induce a rich out of equilibrium dynamics. The properties of the model are studied by numerical simulations and analytically in a mean field approximation. At…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-03 Federico Corberi , Mario Nicodemi , Marina Piccioni , Antonio Coniglio

We study a lattice model describing the non-equilibrium dynamics emerging from the pulling of a tracer particle through a disordered medium occupied by randomly placed obstacles. The model is considered in a restricted geometry pertinent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-09 A. Squarcini , A. Tinti , P. Illien , O. Bénichou , T. Franosch

In supercooled liquids, dynamical facilitation refers to a phenomenon where microscopic motion begets further motion nearby, resulting in spatially heterogeneous dynamics. This is central to the glassy relaxation dynamics of such liquids,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-11 Muhammad R. Hasyim , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

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

Glass is a liquid that has lost its ability to flow. Why this particular substance undergoes its dramatic slowing down in kinetics while remaining barely distinguishable in structure from the fluid state upon cooling constitutes the central…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-23 Bo Li , Xiuming Xiao , Shuxia Wang , Weijia Wen , Ziren Wang

We describe the random motion of a particle immersed in a thermally fluctuating medium and harmonically trapped at a certain distance from a wall. The medium, modeled by a Gaussian field with a tunable correlation length $\xi$, is linearly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-27 Marcin Piotr Pruszczyk , Andrea Gambassi

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

Mesh-like structures, such as mucus gel or cytoskeleton networks, are ubiquitous in biological systems. These intricate structures are composed of cross-linked, semi-flexible bio-filaments, crucial to numerous biological processes. In many…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-10 Yeongjin Kim , Won Kyu Kim , Jae-Hyung Jeon

The mean-field theory (MFT) of simple glasses, which is exact in the limit of infinite spatial dimensions, $d\rightarrow\infty$, offers theoretical insight as well as quantitative predictions about certain features of $d=3$ systems. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-27 Patrick Charbonneau , Yi Hu , Peter K. Morse

Diffusive transport of small molecules within the internal structures of biological and synthetic material systems is complex because the crowded environment presents chemical and physical barriers to mobility. We explored this mobility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-29 Rajarshi Guha , Subhadip Ghosh , Darrell Velegol , Peter J. Butler , Ayusman Sen , Jennifer L. Ross

We introduce non-trivial contributions to diffusion constant in generic many-body systems arising from quadratic fluctuations of ballistically propagating, i.e. convective, modes. Our result is obtained by expanding the current operator in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Marko Medenjak , Jacopo De Nardis , Takato Yoshimura

We investigate the properties of highly compressible turbulence, the compressibility arising from a small effective polytropic exponent $\gamma_e$ due to cooling. In the limit of small $\gamma_e$, the density jump at shocks is shown to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , T. Passot , A. Pouquet