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We study stochastic motion under a nonlinear frictional force that levels off with increasing velocity. Specifically, our frictional force is of the so-called Coulomb-tanh type. At small speed, it increases approximately linearly with…

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Simultaneous diffusive and inertial motion of Brownian particles in laminar Couette flow is investigated via Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions to determine the effect of particle inertia on diffusive transport in the long-time. The…

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The problem of biological motion is a very intriguing and topical issue. Many efforts are being focused on the development of novel modeling approaches for the description of anomalous diffusion in biological systems, such as the very…

Most classical work on the hydrodynamics of low-Reynolds-number swimming addresses deterministic locomotion in quiescent environments. Thermal fluctuations in fluids are known to lead to a Brownian loss of the swimming direction. As most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-18 Mario Sandoval , Navaneeth K. M. , Ganesh Subramanian , Eric Lauga

Experimental measurements of properties of the large-scale circulation (LSC) in turbulent convection of a fluid heated from below in a cylindrical container of aspect ratio one are presented and used to test a model of diffusion in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Brown , Guenter Ahlers

We propose a stochastic model for intracellular transport processes associated with the activity of molecular motors. This out-of-equilibrium model, based on a generalized Langevin equation, considers a particle immersed in a viscoelastic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 L. Bruno , M. A. Despósito

We introduce a description of the collective transverse dynamics of charged (proton) beams in the stability regime by suitable classical stochastic fluctuations. In this scheme, the collective beam dynamics is described by time--reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicola Cufaro Petroni , Salvatore De Martino , Silvio De Siena , Fabrizio Illuminati

This article studies the dynamics of a nonlinear dissipative reaction-diffusion equation with well-separated stable states which is perturbed by infinite-dimensional multiplicative L\'evy noise with a regularly varying component at…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Michael A. Högele

During the last decades active particles have attracted an incipient attention as they have been observed in a broad class of scenarios, ranging from bacterial suspension in living systems to artificial swimmers in nonequilibirum systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-19 Antonio A. Valido , Mattia Coccolo , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

Anomalous diffusion, manifest as a nonlinear temporal evolution of the position mean square displacement, and/or non-Gaussian features of the position statistics, is prevalent in biological transport processes. Likewise, collective behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-01 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

We study the full nonequilibirum steady state distribution $P_{\text{st}}\left(X\right)$ of the position $X$ of a damped particle confined in a harmonic trapping potential and experiencing active noise, whose correlation time $\tau_c$ is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-10 Naftali R. Smith , Oded Farago

We investigate single-particle diffusion in a two-state Langevin model where the friction coefficient randomly switches between low-friction (liquid-like) and high-friction (glassy-like) states. The dynamics are governed by the ratio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Fivos Perakis , Takeshi Kawasaki , Shinji Saito

We consider the statics and dynamics of a single particle trapped in a one-dimensional harmonic potential, and subjected to a driving noise with memory, that is represented by a resetting stochastic process. The finite memory of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-18 Mathis Gueneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

The Fokker-Planck equation has been very useful for studying dynamic behavior of stochastic differential equations driven by Gaussian noises. However, there are both theoretical and empirical reasons to consider similar equations driven by…

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A self-propelled artificial microswimmer is often modeled as a ballistic Brownian particle moving with constant speed aligned along one of its axis, but changing direction due to random collisions with the environment. Similarly to thermal…

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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…

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The propagation of light in a scattering medium is described as the motion of a special kind of a Brownian particle on which the fluctuating forces act only perpendicular to its velocity. This enforces strictly and dynamically the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar

Stochastic motion in a bistable, periodically modulated potential is discussed. The system is stimulated by a white noise increments of which have a symmetric stable L\'evy distribution. The noise is multiplicative: its intensity depends on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-15 Tomasz Srokowski

We expand on a recent study of a lattice model of interacting particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 110601 (2013)]. The adsorption isotherm and equilibrium fluctuations in particle number are discussed as a function of the interaction. Their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Becker , K. Nelissen , B. Cleuren , B. Partoens , C. Van den Broeck

We consider a tracer particle on a lattice in the presence of immobile obstacles. Starting from equilibrium, a force pulling on the particle is switched on, driving the system to a new stationary state. We solve for the complete transient…

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