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Active particles may happen to be confined in channels so narrow that they cannot overtake each other (Single File conditions). This interesting situation reveals nontrivial physical features as a consequence of the strong inter-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Emanuele Locatelli , Fulvio Baldovin , Enzo Orlandini , Matteo Pierno

One-dimensional movement of interacting particles is a challenging problem where the correlation between particles induces non-trivial collective effects. In contrast to the single-file diffusion case, the pure ballistic single file…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-28 P. M. Centres , S. J. Manzi , V. D. Pereyra , S. Bustingorry

In this work, we present an effective discrete Edwards-Wilkinson equation aimed to describe the single-file diffusion process. The key physical properties of the system are captured defining an effective elasticity, which is proportional to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-04 P. M. Centres , S. Bustingorry

Diffusive properties of a monodisperse system of interacting particles confined to a \textit{quasi}-one-dimensional (Q1D) channel are studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We calculate numerically the mean-squared displacement…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-10 D. Lucena , D. V. Tkachenko , K. Nelissen , V. R. Misko , W. P. Ferreira , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

The single file diffusion in a circular channel of millimetric charged balls is studied. The evolution in time of the mean square displacement is shown to be subdiffusive, but slower than the power-like $t^{1/2}$ behavior observed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gwennou Coupier , Michel Saint Jean , Claudine Guthmann

Single file diffusion (SFD) exhibits anomalously slow collective transport when particles are able to immobilize by binding and unbinding to the one-dimensional channel within which the particles diffuse. We have explored this system for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 Spencer Farrell , Andrew D Rutenberg

We consider a gas of point particles moving in a one-dimensional channel with a hard-core inter-particle interaction that prevents particle crossings --- this is called single-file motion. Starting from equilibrium initial conditions we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-15 Chaitra Hegde , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Abhishek Dhar

Fluids confined to quasi-one-dimensional channels exhibit a dynamic crossover from single file diffusion to normal diffusion as the channel becomes wide enough for particles to hop past each other. In the crossover regime, where hopping…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-24 Sheida Ahmadi , Marina Schmidt , Raymond J. Spiteri , Richard K. Bowles

We study the effect of spatially-varying potential and diffusivity on the dispersion of a tracer particle in single-file diffusion. Non-interacting particles in such a system exhibit normal diffusion at late times, which is characterised by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Benjamin Sorkin , David S. Dean

Single-file systems, in which particles diffuse in narrow channels while not overtaking each other, is a fundamental model for the tracer subdiffusion observed in confined geometries, such as in zeolites or carbon nanotubes. Twenty years…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-27 Aurélien Grabsch , Olivier Bénichou

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

Single-file diffusion (SFD) of an infinite one-dimensional chain of interacting particles has a long-time mean-square displacement (MSD) ~t^1/2, independent of the type of inter-particle repulsive interaction. This behavior is also observed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 D. V. Tkachenko , V. R. Misko , F. M. Peeters

Diffusion of impenetrable particles in a crowded one-dimensional channel is referred as the single file diffusion. The particles do not pass each other and the displacement of each individual particle is sub-diffusive. We analyse a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-18 Tridib Sadhu , Bernard Derrida

The narrow escape problem concerns the time needed for a diffusing particle to exit a confining domain through a small hole in the boundary. While this problem is now well-understood, determining the escape time for a particle that must…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-26 Victorya Richardson , Yick Hin Ling , Sean D Lawley

It is often desirable to know the controlling mechanism of survival probability of nano - or microscale particles in small cavities such as, e.g., confined submicron particles in fiber beds of high-efficiency filter media or ions/small…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Shubhadip Nayak , Tanwi Debnath , Shovan Das , Debajyoti Debnath , Pulak K. Ghosh

Single-file transport, arising in quasi one-dimensional geometries where particles cannot pass each other, is characterized by the anomalous dynamics of a probe, notably its response to an external force. In these systems, the motion of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-29 Olivier Bénichou , Vincent Démery , Alexis Poncet

Single-file diffusion refers to the motion in narrow channels of particles which cannot bypass each other. These strong correlations between particles lead to tracer subdiffusion, which has been observed in contexts as varied as transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-08 Alexis Poncet , Aurélien Grabsch , Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou

We apply macroscopic fluctuation theory to study the diffusion of a tracer in a one-dimensional interacting particle system with excluded mutual passage, known as single-file diffusion. In the case of Brownian point particles with hard-core…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick , Tridib Sadhu

Anomalous diffusion has been widely observed by single particle tracking microscopy in complex systems such as biological cells. The resulting time series are usually evaluated in terms of time averages. Often anomalous diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stas Burov , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Eli Barkai

The movement of molecules inside living cells is a fundamental feature of biological processes. The ability to both observe and analyse the details of molecular diffusion in vivo at the single molecule and single cell level can add…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-11-21 Alex Robson , Kevin Burrage , Mark Leake