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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

We study the dynamics of a Brownian particle in a strongly correlated quenched random potential defined as a periodically-extended (with period $L$) finite trajectory of a fractional Brownian motion with arbitrary Hurst exponent $H \in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-01 David S. Dean , Shamik Gupta , Gleb Oshanin , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

We reassess the "dispersionless transport regime" of Brownian particles in tilted periodic potentials. We show that the particles exhibit normal diffusive motion right after transitioning into the running state dragged by the constant bias…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 I. G. Marchenko , V. Yu. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , A. V. Zhiglo

In this article, results have been presented for the two-time correlation functions for a free and a harmonically confined Brownian particle in a simple shear flow. For a free Brownian particle, the motion along the direction of shear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-17 D. Chakraborty

Very recent experiments have discovered that localized light in strongly absorbing media displays intriguing diffusive phenomena. Here we develop a first-principles theory of light propagation in open media with arbitrary absorption…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-30 Li-Yi Zhao , Chu-Shun Tian , Zhao-Qing Zhang , Xiang-Dong Zhang

Using extensive Brownian dynamics computer simulations, the long-time self-diffusion coefficient is calculated for Gaussian-core particles as a function of the number density. Both spherical and rod-like particles interacting via Gaussian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-17 H. H. Wensink , H. Löwen , M. Rex , C. N. Likos , S. van Teeffelen

We consider single particle and polymer translocation where the frictional properties experienced from the environment are changing in time. This work is motivated by the interesting frequency responsive behaviour observed when a polymer is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-06 Jack A. Cohen , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Ramin Golestanian

We numerically investigate the diffusive behavior of active Brownian particles in a two-dimensional confined channel filled with soft obstacles, whose softness is controlled by a parameter $K$. Here, active particles are subjected to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-22 Ankit Gupta , P. S. Burada

When a flux of Brownian particles is injected in a narrow window located on the surface of a bounded domain, these particles diffuse and can eventually escape through a cluster of narrow windows. At steady-state, we compute asymptotically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre , David Holcman

The dynamic properties of a classical tracer particle in a random, disordered medium are investigated close to the localization transition. For Lorentz models obeying Newtonian and diffusive motion at the microscale, we have performed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-29 Felix Höfling , Tobias Munk , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

Brownian motion of a particle with an arbitrary shape is investigated theoretically. Analytical expressions for the time-dependent cross-correlations of the Brownian translational and rotational displacements are derived from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-13 Bodan Cichocki , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska , Eligiusz Wajnryb

The motion of a Brownian particle in the presence of Coulomb friction and an asymmetric spatial potential was evaluated in this study. The system exhibits a ratchet effect, i.e., an average directed motion even in the absence of an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Massimiliano Semeraro , Giuseppe Gonnella , Eugenio Lippiello , Alessandro Sarracino

We consider a class of particle systems which appear in various applications such as approximation theory, plasticity, potential theory and space-filling designs. The positions of the particles on the real line are described as a global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Patrick van Meurs , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

We investigate the obstructed motion of tracer (test) particles in crowded environments by carrying simulations of two-dimensional Gaussian random walk in model fibrinogen monolayers of different orientational ordering. The fibrinogen…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 Michał Cieśla , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Francesc Sagués , Igor M. Sokolov

Understanding the spread of infectious diseases requires integrating movement, physical constraints, and spatial configurations into epidemiological models. In this study, we investigate how particle diffusivity, hardcore interactions, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-17 Kaito Takahashi , Makiko Sasada , Takuma Akimoto

The effective diffusion of Brownian particles in periodic potential has been a central topic in nonequilibrium statistical physcis. A classical result is the Lifson formula which provides the effective diffusion constant in periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-22 Sang Yang , Zhixin Peng

The paper addresses the single-file diffusion in the presence of an absorbing boundary. The emphasis is on an interplay between the hard-core interparticle interaction and the absorption process. The resulting dynamics exhibits several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-26 Artem Ryabov , Petr Chvosta

Diffusion of a tagged particle near a constraining biological surface is examined numerically by modeling the surface-water interaction by an effective potential. The effective potential is assumed to be given by an asymmetric double well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnab Mukherjee , Biman Bagchi

Active matter systems under confinement display persistent surface motion and a strong boundary affinity. However, despite extensive studies of their positional dynamics, much less attention has been given to the corresponding orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Elsa Baby , Manoj Gopalakrishnan , Vishwas V. Vasisht

We discuss the dynamics of a Brownian particle under the influence of a spatially periodic noise strength in one dimension using analytical theory and computer simulations. In the absence of a deterministic force, the Langevin equation can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-28 Davide Breoni , Ralf Blossey , Hartmut Löwen