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Mathematical models are becoming increasingly important in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as they provide a mechanistic approach for making a link between tissue microstructure and signals acquired using the medical imaging instrument.…

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We discuss some challenges and recent advances in understanding the macroscopic signal formation at high non-narrow magnetic field gradients at which both the narrow pulse and the Gaussian phase approximations fail. The transverse…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Denis S. Grebenkov

We investigate stochastic particle acceleration in accretion flows. It is believed that the magnetorotational instability (MRI) generates turbulence inside accretion flows and that cosmic rays (CRs) are accelerated by the turbulence. We…

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The studying of anomalous diffusion by pulsed field gradient (PFG) diffusion technique still faces challenges. Two different research groups have proposed modified Bloch equation for anomalous diffusion. However, these equations have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Guoxing Lin

The Bloch theorem enables reduction of the eigenvalue problem of the single-particle Hamiltonian that commutes with translational group. Based on a group theory analysis we present generalization of the Bloch theorem that incorporates all…

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) concepts are rooted in quantum mechanics, but MR imaging principles are well described and more easily grasped using classical ideas and formalisms such as Larmor precession and the phenomenological Bloch…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 ML Lauzon

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides a distinctive means to probe the microstructural architecture of living tissue, facilitating applications such as brain connectivity analysis, modeling across multiple conditions, and the estimation of…

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The diffusion of chiral active Brownian particles in three-dimensional space is studied analytically, by consideration of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of finding a particle at position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Francisco J. Sevilla

Diffusion is an ubiquitous phenomenon. It is a widespread belief that as long as the area under a current autocorrelation function converges in time, the corresponding spatiotemporal density dynamics should be diffusive. This may be viewed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-04 Scott D. Linz , Jiaozi Wang , Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer

The coupling between advection and diffusion in position space can often lead to enhanced mass transport compared to diffusion without flow. An important framework used to characterize the long-time diffusive transport in position space is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Peng

This paper is concerned with the large-time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem on the two-fluid Euler-Maxwell system with collisions when initial data are around a constant equilibrium state. The main goal is the rigorous…

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Brownian motion is the perpetual irregular motion exhibited by small particles immersed in a fluid. Such random motion of the particles is produced by statistical fluctuations in the collisions they suffer with the molecules of the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Kasturi Basu , Kopinjol Baishya

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

A new model to describe the dynamics of particles undergoing diffusion in general relativity is proposed. The evolution of the particle system is described by a Fokker-Planck equation without friction on the tangent bundle of spacetime. It…

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Aims. Numerical test-particle simulations are a reliable and frequently used tool to test analytical transport theories and to predict mean-free paths. The comparison between solutions of the diffusion equation and the particle flux is used…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the method of choice for noninvasive studies of micrometer-scale structures in biological tissues via their effects on the time/frequency-dependent ("restricted") and anisotropic self-diffusion of water.…

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We consider the behaviour of precessional angle (phase) carried by molecules of a diffusing specimen under magnetic fields typical of magnetic resonance experiments. An evolution equation for the ensemble of particles is constructed, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-11 Cem Yolcu , Magnus Herberthson , Carl-Fredrik Westin , Evren Özarslan

We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to study the large-scale dynamical properties of Brownian particles with arbitrary pairwise interaction. By combining it with standard results of equilibrium statistical mechanics for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

The Smoluchowski equation is a system of partial differential equations modelling the diffusion and binary coagulation of a large collection of tiny particles. The mass parameter may be indexed either by positive integers, or by positive…

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