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We analyze the dynamics of particles in two dimensions with constant speed and a stochastic switching angle dynamics defined by a correlated dichotomous Markov process (telegraph noise) plus Gaussian white noise. We study various cases of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-16 Christian Weber , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

The research is important for a molecular theory of liquid and has a wide interest as an example solving the problem when dynamic parameters of systems can be indirectly connected with their equilibrium properties. In frameworks of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei N. Yakunin

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

Diffusion of self-propelled particles in the presence of randomly distributed obstacles in three dimensions is studied using molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that depending on the magnitude of the propelling force and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Hamidreza Khalilian , Hossein Fazli

We study the measurement of transverse diffusion through beam echoes. We revisit earlier observations of echoes in RHIC and apply an updated theoretical model to these measurements. We consider three possible models for the diffusion…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tanaji Sen , Wolfram Fischer

The photon density operator function is used to calculate light beam propagation through turbulent atmosphere. A kinetic equation for the photon distribution function is derived and solved using the method of characteristics. Optical wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. P. Berman , A. A. Chumak

The diffusions and anomalous diffusions of charged particles in the plateau regime of toroidal plasma with a Maxwellian velocity distribution are studied. The transport theory of plasma is discussed under the toroidal coordinate system and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Wang Hong , Du Jiulin

One key issue in the probability density function (PDF) approach for disperse two-phase turbulent flows is to close the diffusion term in the phase space. This study aimed to derive a kinetic equation for particle dispersion in turbulent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 De-yu Zhong , Guang-qian Wang , Tie-jian Li , Ming-xi Zhang , You Xia

Long DNA molecules can be mapped by cutting them with restriction enzymes inside a narrow channel. Once cut, the individual fragments thus produced move away from each other due to diffusion and entropic effects. We investigate how long it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-11 Hanyang. Wang , Gary W Slater

Protein rotational kinetics are essential for understanding macromolecular behavior in crowded environments, yet measuring these dynamics at solid-liquid interfaces remains a significant challenge due to low signal strengths. Here, we…

Properties of active colloids of circle swimmers are reviewed. As an particular example of active magnetic colloids the magnetotactic bacteria under the action of a rotating magnetic field is considered. The relation for a diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Reinis Taukulis , Andrejs Cebers

We study the resonances of the quantum kicked rotor subjected to an excitation that follows a deterministic time-dependent prescription. For the primary resonances we find an analytical relation between the long-time behavior of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Romanelli , Guzmán Hernández

In their work [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112 (2015) E5725], Bosse et al. experimentally showed that virus capsid exhibits not only normal diffusion but also anomalous diffusion in nucleus of a living cell. There, it was found that the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Yuichi Itto

The purpose of this paper is to provide new formulas for the estimation of the effective diffusion coefficient of an equation of Fick-Jacob's type obtained by projecting the two-dimensional diffusion equation along the normal direction of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Carlos Valero Valdes , Rafael Herrera Guzman

The frequency correlations of light in complex photonic media are of interest as a tool for characterizing the dynamical aspects of light diffusion. We demonstrate here that the frequency correlation shows a pronounced angle dependence both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Otto L. Muskens , Timmo van der Beek , Ad Lagendijk

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

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

Probing the transport of fluids within confined domains is important in many areas including material science, catalysis, food science, and cell biology. The diffusion propagator fully characterizes the diffusion process, which is highly…

We investigate the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements for particle diffusion in a simple model for disordered media by assuming that the local diffusivity is both fluctuating in time and has a deterministic average growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. G. Cherstvy , R. Metzler

A diffusion-based molecular communication system has two major components: the diffusion in the medium, and the ligand-reception. Information bits, encoded in the time variations of the concentration of molecules, are conveyed to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri