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The experimental literature on the motion of mesoscopic probe particles through polymer solutions is systematically reviewed. The primary focus is the study of diffusive motion of small probe particles. Comparison is made with measurements…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 George D. J. Phillies

We consider Langevin equation with dichotomously fluctuating diffusivity, where the diffusion coefficient changes dichotomously in time, in order to study fluctuations of time-averaged observables in temporary heterogeneous diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-15 Takuma Akimoto , Eiji Yamamoto

An impact of particles' roughness on the self-diffusion coefficient in granular gases is investigated. For a simplified collision model where the normal and tangential restitution coefficients are assumed to be constant we develop an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-19 Anna Bodrova , Nikolai Brilliantov

Explicit analytical expressions for the drag and diffusion coefficients of a spherical particle attached to the interface between two immiscible fluids are constructed for the case of a small viscosity ratio between the fluid phases. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-20 Aaron Dörr , Steffen Hardt

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

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

The stochastic dynamics of an active particle undergoing a constant speed and additionally driven by an overall fluctuating torque is investigated. The random torque forces are expressed by a stochastic differential equation for the angular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-22 Christian Weber , Paul K. Radtke , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi

Diffusion coefficient measurements are important for many biological and material investigations, such as particle dynamics, kinetics, and size determinations. Amongst current measurement methods, single particle tracking (SPT) offers the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2011-07-12 Shannon Kian Zareh , Michael C. DeSantis , Jonathan Kessler , Je-Luen Li , Y. M. Wang

Diffusion of chemicals or tracer molecules through complex systems containing irregularly shaped channels is important in many applications. Most theoretical studies based on the famed Fick-Jacobs equation focus on the idealised case of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Max Bauer , Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

Recent studies have shown that in the presence of noise both fronts propagating into a metastable state and so-called pushed fronts propagating into an unstable state, exhibit diffusive wandering about the average position. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrea Rocco , Jaume Casademunt , Ute Ebert , Wim van Saarloos

Particles moving along curved trajectories will diffuse if the curvature fluctuates sufficiently in either magnitude or orientation. We consider particles moving at a constant speed with either a fixed or with a Gaussian distributed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew D. Rutenberg , Andrew J. Richardson , Claire J. Montgomery

In this work we first study the quantum diffusion in a volume of a crystalline solid at high interstitial concentrations when the effects of the short-range interactions between the diffusing particles are to be factors. Within the scope of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Buchbinder , V. N. Shapov

An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

An investigation of the effect of surface diffusion in random deposition model is made by analytical methods and reasoning. For any given site, the extent to which a particle can diffuse is decided by the morphology in the immediate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-14 Baisakhi Mal , Subhankar Ray , J. Shamanna

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 the lateral diffusion of a protein interacting with the curvature of the membrane. The interaction energy is minimized if the particle is at a membrane position with a certain curvature that agrees with the spontaneous curvature…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-10 Stefan M. Leitenberger , Ellen Reister-Gottfried , Udo Seifert

We consider fractional diffusion equations and study the stability of the inverse problem of determining the time-dependent parameter in a source term or a coefficient of zero-th order term from observations of the solution at one point in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Kenichi Fujishiro , Yavar Kian

Restrictions to diffusion result in the dispersion of the bulk diffusion coefficient. We derive the exact universal high-frequency behavior of the diffusion coefficient in terms of the surface-to-volume ratio of the restrictions. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-11 Dmitry S. Novikov , Valerij G. Kiselev

We study the diffusion of Brownian particles on the surface of a sphere and compute the distribution of solid angles enclosed by the diffusing particles. This function describes the distribution of geometric phases in two state quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. M. G. Krishna , Joseph Samuel , Supurna Sinha

We present the results on the source spectrum function for primary nuclei in galactic cosmic rays, where two distinct energy dependences are used for the source spectra. We discuss the evolution of the goodness of fit to B/C data with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fiorenza Donato , David Maurin , Richard Taillet