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Brownian particles in random potentials show an extended regime of subdiffusive dynamics at intermediate times. The asymptotic diffusive behavior is often established at very long times and thus cannot be accessed in experiments or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-22 Richard D. L. Hanes , Michael Schmiedeberg , Stefan U. Egelhaaf

Although an intimate relation between entropy and diffusion has been advocated for many years and even seems to have been verified in theory and experiments, a quantitatively reliable study, and any derivation of an algebraic relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-22 Subhajit Acharya , Biman Bagchi

In this work we establish a link between two different phenomena that were studied in a large and growing number of biological, composite and soft media: the diffusion in compartmentalized environment and the Brownian yet non-Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Jakub Ślęzak , Stanislav Burov

Many studies on biological and soft matter systems report the joint presence of a linear mean-squared displacement and a non-Gaussian probability density exhibiting, for instance, exponential or stretched-Gaussian tails. This phenomenon is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Jakub Ślęzak , Krzysztof Burnecki , Ralf Metzler

Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion has recently been observed in numerous biological and active matter system. The cause of the non-Gaussian distribution have been elaborately studied in the idea of a superstatistical dynamics or a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-02 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen

A rapidly increasing number of systems is identified in which the stochastic motion of tracer particles follows the Brownian law $\langle\mathbf{r}^2(t) \rangle\simeq Dt$ yet the distribution of particle displacements is strongly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-30 V. Sposini , A. V. Chechkin , R. Metzler

Diffusion of small particles is omnipresent in a plentiful number of processes occurring in Nature. As such, it is widely studied and exerted in almost all branches of sciences. It constitutes such a broad and often rather complex subject…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jakub Spiechowicz , Ivan G. Marchenko , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

The standard diffusive spreading, characterized by a Gaussian distribution with mean square displacement that grows linearly with time, can break down, for instance, under the presence of correlations and heterogeneity. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 M. A. F. dos Santos , E. H. Colombo , C. Anteneodo

In recent years, several experiments highlighted a new type of diffusion anomaly, which was called Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion. In systems displaying this behavior, the mean squared displacement of the diffusing particles grows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-01 Adrian Pacheco-Pozo , Igor M. Sokolov

Stochastic transport due to a velocity field modeled by the superposition of small-scale divergence free vector fields activated by Fractional Gaussian Noises (FGN) is numerically investigated. We present two non-trivial contributions: the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-12 Paolo Cifani , Franco Flandoli

We study the problem of a Brownian particle diffusing in finite dimensions in a potential given by $\psi= \phi^2/2$ where $\phi$ is Gaussian random field. Exact results for the diffusion constant in the high temperature phase are given in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Touya , D. S. Dean

In many physical or biological systems, diffusion can be described by Brownian motions with stochastic diffusion coefficients (DCs). In the present study, we investigate properties of the diffusion with a broad class of stochastic DCs with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-13 Go Uchida , Hitoshi Washizu , Hiromi Miyoshi

Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed in various biological and soft matter systems. This anomalous dynamics is typically attributed to heterogeneous environments inducing spatiotemporal variations in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-20 Seongyu Park , Xavier Durang , Ralf Metzler , Jae-Hyung Jeon

The problem of a diffusing particle moving among diffusing traps is analyzed in general space dimension d. We consider the case where the traps are initially randomly distributed in space, with uniform density rho, and derive upper and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. A. Blythe , A. J. Bray

We investigate the Brownian diffusion of particles in one spatial dimension and in the presence of finite regions within which particles can either evaporate or be reset to a given location. For open boundary conditions, we highlight the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Gennaro Tucci , Andrea Gambassi , Shamik Gupta , Édgar Roldán

Lateral diffusion of molecules on surfaces plays a very important role in various biological processes, including lipid transport across the cell membrane, synaptic transmission and other phenomena such as exo- and endocytosis, signal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-12 A. B. Duncan , C. M. Elliott , G. A. Pavliotis , A. M. Stuart

We examine challenges to sampling from Boltzmann distributions associated with multiscale energy landscapes. The multiscale features, or "roughness," corresponds to highly oscillatory, but bounded, perturbations of a smooth landscape.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Petr Plecháč , Gideon Simpson

We study a two state ``jumping diffusivity'' model for a Brownian process alternating between two different diffusion constants, $D_{+}>D_{-}$, with random waiting times in both states whose distribution is rather general. In the limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-09 M. Hidalgo-Soria , E. Barkai , S. Burov

We study the dynamics of Brownian particles in a heterogeneous one-dimensional medium with a spatially-dependent diffusion coefficient of the form $D(x)\sim |x|^c$, at constant temperature. The particle's probability distribution function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Shaked Regev , Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Oded Farago

Transport of point-size Brownian particles under the influence of a constant and uniform force field through a three-dimensional channel with smoothly varying periodic cross-section is investigated. Here, we employ an asymptotic analysis in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-14 Steffen Martens , Gerhard Schmid , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi