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We study the random walk of a particle in a compartmentalized environment, as realized in biological samples or solid state compounds. Each compartment is characterized by its length $L$ and the boundaries transmittance $T$. We identify two…

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A model for diffusion on a cubic lattice with a random distribution of traps is developed. The traps are redistributed at certain time intervals. Such models are useful for describing systems showing dynamic disorder, such as ion-conducting…

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Tracer diffusion in crowded environments is central to many biological and soft matter systems, but quantitative frameworks for linking tracer motion to environmental structure remain limited. Here, we study the transport of rigid tracers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Jinseok Lee , Tong Lin , Mengyang Gu , Yimin Luo

The decay of a crystalline cone below the roughening transition is studied. We consider local mass transport through surface diffusion, focusing on the two cases of diffusion limited and attachment-detachment limited step kinetics. In both…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Navot Israeli , Daniel Kandel

We study the long-time tails of the survival probability $P(t)$ of an $A$ particle diffusing in $d$-dimensional media in the presence of a concentration $\rho$ of traps $B$ that move sub-diffusively, such that the mean square displacement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. B. Yuste , G. Oshanin , K. Lindenberg , O. Benichou , J. Klafter

We study the anomalous transport in systems of random walks (RW's) on comb-like lattices with fractal sidebranches, showing subdiffusion, and in a system of Brownian particles driven by a random shear along the x-direction, showing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-15 Fabio Cecconi , Giulio Costantini , Alessandro Taloni , Angelo Vulpiani

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

The behavior of particles driven through a narrow constriction is investigated in experiment and simulation. The system of particles adapts to the confining potentials and the interaction energies by a self-consistent arrangement of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-15 P. Henseler , A. Erbe , M. Köppl , P. Leiderer , P. Nielaba

Several theoretical models based on totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) have been extensively utilized to study various non-equilibrium transport phenomena. Inspired by the the role of microtubule-transported vesicles in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Akriti Jindal , Atul Kumar Verma , Arvind Kumar Gupta

Tracer diffusion and hydrodynamic dispersion in two-dimensional fractures with self-affine roughness is studied by analytic and numerical methods. Numerical simulations were performed via the lattice-Boltzmann approach, using a new boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 German Drazer , Joel Koplik

We study semi-infinite particle systems on the one-dimensional integer lattice, where each particle performs a continuous-time nearest-neighbour random walk, with jump rates intrinsic to each particle, subject to an exclusion interaction…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Mikhail Menshikov , Serguei Popov , Andrew Wade

The dynamics of particles interacting by key-lock binding of attached biomolecules are studied theoretically. Examples of such systems include DNA-functionalized colloids as well as nanoparticles grafted with antibodies to cell membrane…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas A. Licata , Alexei V. Tkachenko

We introduce the pushy random walk, where a walker can push multiple obstacles, thereby penetrating large distances in environments with finite obstacle density. This process provides a minimal model for experimentally observed interactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ofek Lauber Bonomo , Itamar Shitrit , Shlomi Reuveni , Sidney Redner

We study reaction-diffusion processes with multi-species of particles and hard-core interaction. We add boundary driving to the system by means of external reservoirs which inject and remove particles, thus creating stationary currents. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Francesco Casini , Cristian Giardina , Cecilia Vernia

We investigate dynamically and statistically diffusive motion in a Klein-Gordon particle chain in the presence of disorder. In particular, we examine a low energy (subdiffusive) and a higher energy (self-trapping) case and verify that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ch. G. Antonopoulos , T. Bountis , Ch. Skokos , L. Drossos

We study the dynamics of a tracer particle, which performs a totally directed random walk in an adsorbed monolayer composed of mobile hard-core particles undergoing continuous exchanges with a vapour phase. In terms of a mean-field-type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Benichou , A. M. Cazabat , M. Moreau , G. Oshanin

Active transport of biomolecules assisted by motor proteins is imperative for the proper functioning of cellular activities. Inspired by the diffusion of active agents in crowded cellular channels, we computationally investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-19 Rajiblochan Sahoo , Ligesh Theeyancheri , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

We investigate the influence of particle diffusion in the two-dimension contact process (CP) with a competitive dynamics in bipartite sublattices, proposed in [Phys. Rev. E 84, 011125 (2011)]. The particle creation depends on its first and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. M. de Oliveira , C. E. Fiore

We consider the diffusion and spreading of chainlike molecules on solid surfaces. We first show that the steep spherical cap shape density profiles, observed in some submonolayer experiments on spreading polymer films, imply that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Hjelt , S. Herminghaus , T. Ala-Nissila , S. C. Ying

The dynamics of a tracer particle in a bath of quasi-hard colloidal spheres is studied by Langevin dynamics simulations and mode coupling theory (MCT); the tracer radius is varied from equal to up to 7 times larger than the bath particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-01 Francisco Orts , Manuel Maier , Matthias Fuchs , Gloria Ortega , Ester M. Garzón , Antonio M. Puertas