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We investigate the evolution of solitary waves in a nonlocal medium in the presence of disorder. By using a perturbational approach, we show that an increasing degree of nonlocality may largely hamper the Brownian motion of self-trapped…

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Geometrical optics provides an instructive insight into Brownian motion, ``pushed" into a large-deviations regime by imposed constraints. Here we extend geometrical optics of Brownian motion by accounting for diffusion inhomogeneity in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-26 Tal Bar , Baruch Meerson

The molecular motion in heterogeneous media displays anomalous diffusion by the mean-squared displacement $\langle X^2(t) \rangle = 2 D t^\alpha$. Motivated by experiments reporting populations of the anomalous diffusion parameters $\alpha$…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yann Lanoiselée , Gianni Pagnini , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

Many theoretical treatments of transport in heterogeneous Darcy flows consider advection only. When local-scale dispersion is neglected, flux-weighting persists over time; mean Lagrangian and Eulerian flow velocity distributions relate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-25 Lian Zhou , Scott K. Hansen

We consider a 1-dimensional Brownian motion whose diffusion coefficient varies when it crosses the origin. We study the long time behavior and we establish different regimes, depending on the variations of the diffusion coefficient:…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Nicolas Meunier , Clément Mouhot , Raphaël Roux

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

We consider a diffusion process under a local weak H\"{o}rmander condition on the coefficients. We find Gaussian estimates for the density in short time and exponential lower and upper bounds for the probability that the diffusion remains…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Paolo Pigato

A mass transport directed from low to high density region in an inhomogeneous medium is modeled as a limiting case of a two-component lattice gas with excluded volume constraint and one of the components fixed. In the long-wavelength…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-10-05 Sergei P. Lukyanets , Oleksandr V. Kliushnychenko

Nonergodicity observed in single-particle tracking experiments is usually modeled by transient trapping rather than spatial disorder. We introduce models of a particle diffusing in a medium consisting of regions with random sizes and random…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-23 P. Massignan , C. Manzo , J. A. Torreno-Pina , M. F. García-Parajo , M. Lewenstein , G. J. Lapeyre

In the last years, a few experiments in the fields of biological and soft matter physics in colloidal suspensions have reported normal diffusion with a Laplacian probability distribution in the particles displacements (i.e., Brownian yet…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-22 Francisco E. Alban Chacón , Erick A. Lamilla Rubio , Manuel S. Alvarez Alvarado

Transport phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and known to be important for various scientific domains. Examples can be found in physics, electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, physiology, etc. To obtain new information about diffusive…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Denis S. Grebenkov

This letter introduces a formalism for modeling time-variant channels for diffusive molecular communication systems. In particular, we consider a fluid environment where one transmitter nano-machine and one receiver nano-machine are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Adam Noel , Robert Schober

We consider conservative cross-diffusion systems for two species where individual motion rates depend linearly on the local density of the other species. We develop duality estimates and obtain stability and approximation results. We first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Vincent Bansaye , Ayman Moussa , Felipe Muñoz-Hernández

We study the stochastic motion of particles driven by long-range correlated fractional Gaussian noise in a superharmonic external potential of the form $U(x)\propto x^{2n}$ ($n\in\mathbb{N}$). When the noise is considered to be external,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-17 Tobias Guggenberger , Aleksei Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

It is shown that time reversibility of Hamiltonian microscopic dynamics and Gibbs canonical statistical ensemble of initial conditions for it together produce an exact virial expansion for probability distribution of path of molecular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-04 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

Non-Gaussian shapes, despite a linear form of the mean-squared displacement, have been observed for the displacement distribution in a large range of diffusive systems. Stochastic models for such "Brownian yet non-Gaussian" diffusion will…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-05 R. Metzler , A. V. Chechkin

Brownian motion in a granular gas in a homogeneous cooling state is studied theoretically and by means of molecular dynamics. We use the simplest first-principle model for the impact-velocity dependent restitution coefficient, as it follows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anna Bodrova , Awadhesh Kumar Dubey , Sanjay Puri , Nikolai Brilliantov

A partial differential equation governing the global evolution of the joint probability distribution of an arbitrary number of local flow observations, drawn randomly from a control volume, is derived and applied to examples involving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 John Craske , Paul Mannix

The Arcsine laws of Brownian motion are a collection of results describing three different statistical quantities of one-dimensional Brownian motion: the time at which the process reaches its maximum position, the total time the process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-03 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

Herein we develop a dynamical foundation for fractional Brownian Motion. A clear relation is established between the asymptotic behaviour of the correlation function and diffusion in a dynamical system. Then, assuming that scaling is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 R Mannella , P Grigolini , BJ West