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Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion is observed in several biological and soft matter systems, yet the underlying mechanisms behind the emergence of non-Gaussianity while retaining a linear mean square displacement remain speculative. Here,…

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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

A model for diffusion in liquids that couples the dynamics of tracer particles to a fluctuating Stokes equation for the fluid is investigated in the limit of large Schmidt number. In this limit, the concentration of tracers is shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 A. Donev , T. G. Fai , and E. Vanden-Eijnden

Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed in various biological and soft matter systems. This anomalous dynamics is typically attributed to heterogeneous environments inducing spatiotemporal variations in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-20 Seongyu Park , Xavier Durang , Ralf Metzler , Jae-Hyung Jeon

Moisture diffusion in polymers and bio-based materials frequently exhibits non-Fickian behavior that cannot be described by classical diffusion models. The Langmuir model, which accounts for the coexistence of mobile and bound water…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Corentin Guigot , Romain Grangeat , Gilles-Alexis Renaut

Discontinuous transitions into absorbing states require an effective mechanism that prevents the stabilization of low density states. They can be found in different systems, such as lattice models or stochastic differential equations (e.g.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-12 Salete Pianegonda , Carlos E. Fiore

We revisit the classic problem of the effective diffusion constant of a Brownian particle in a square lattice of reflecting impenetrable hard disks. This diffusion constant is also related to the effective conductivity of non-conducting and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-09 M. Mangeat , T. Guérin , D. S. Dean

The electrochemical permeation test is one of the most used methods for characterising hydrogen diffusion in metals. The flux of hydrogen atoms registered in the oxidation cell might be fitted to obtain apparent diffusivities. The magnitude…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-06 A. Díaz , I. I. Cuesta , E. Martínez-Pañeda , J. M. Alegre

In this work we first study the quantum diffusion in a volume of a crystalline solid at high interstitial concentrations when the effects of the short-range interactions between the diffusing particles are to be factors. Within the scope of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Buchbinder , V. N. Shapov

Lateral diffusion of molecules on surfaces plays a very important role in various biological processes, including lipid transport across the cell membrane, synaptic transmission and other phenomena such as exo- and endocytosis, signal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-12 A. B. Duncan , C. M. Elliott , G. A. Pavliotis , A. M. Stuart

Diffusive transport properties of a quantum Brownian particle moving in a tilted spatially periodic potential and strongly interacting with a thermostat are explored. Apart from the average stationary velocity, we foremost investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Machura , M. Kostur , P. Talkner , J. Luczka , P. Hänggi

We analyze diffusion of particles on a two dimensional square lattice. Each lattice site contains an arbitrary number of particles. Interactions affect particles only in the same site, and are macroscopically represented by the excess…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-17 Matías A. Di Muro , Miguel Hoyuelos

We study a lattice model for the spreading of fluid films, which are a few molecular layers thick, in narrow channels with inert lateral walls. We focus on systems connected to two particle reservoirs at different chemical potentials,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Dotti , A. Gambassi , M. N. Popescu , S. Dietrich

Dynamic heterogeneity, believed to be one of the hallmarks of the dynamics of supercooled liquids, is expected to affect the diffusion of the particles comprising the liquid. We have carried out extensive molecular dynamics simulations of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-23 Rajsekhar Das , Chandan Dasgupta , Smarajit Karmakar

This research explores an introduction to solid-state diffusion, focusing on its importance in materials engineering. It examines vacancy and interstitial diffusion mechanisms, the application of Fick's laws, and their impact on processes…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-26 Jairo Rondón , Angel Gonzalez-Lizardo , Ricardo Bravo , Juan Valera

A relation between the effective diffusion coefficient in a lattice with random site energies and random trasition rates and the macroscopic conductivity in a random resistor network allows for elucidating possible sources of anomalous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-14 Federico Camboni , Igor M. Sokolov

A variety of polymeric surfaces, such as anti-corrosion coatings and polymer-modified asphalts, are prone to blistering when exposed to moisture and air. As water and oxygen diffuse through the material, dissolved species are produced,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-28 Surya Effendy , Tingtao Zhou , Henry Eichman , Michael Petr , Martin Z. Bazant

The diffusion of small solvent molecules in glassy polymers may take on a variety of different forms. Fickian, anomalous, Case II, and super Case II diffusion have all been observed, and theoretical models exist that describe each specific…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-27 Jiayuan Miao , Mesfin Tsige , Philip L. Taylor

We consider the effective surface motion of a particle that freely diffuses in the bulk and intermittently binds to that surface. From an exact approach we derive various regimes of the effective surface motion characterized by physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aleksei V. Chechkin , Irwin M. Zaid , Michael A. Lomholt , Igor M. Sokolov , Ralf Metzler

In this work, we aimed to replicate and extend the results presented in the DiffFluid paper[1]. The DiffFluid model showed that diffusion models combined with Transformers are capable of predicting fluid dynamics. It uses a denoising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yannick Gachnang , Vismay Churiwala