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We show that a signal can propagate in a particular direction through a model random medium regardless of the precise state of the medium. As a prototype, we consider a point particle moving on a one-dimensional lattice whose sites are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Patrick Grosfils , Jean Pierre Boon , E. G. D. Cohen , L. A. Bunimovich

A system of equal mixture of $^6Li$ atomic Fermi gas of two hyperfine states loaded into a cubic three-dimensional optical lattice is studied assuming a negative scattering length (BCS side of the Feshbach resonance). When the interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-09 Z. G. Koinov

The unbiased thermal diffusion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a square lattice potential is considered in the presence of an externally applied ac driving. The resulting diffusion matrix exhibits two orthogonal eigenvectors with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-22 David Speer , Ralf Eichhorn , Peter Reimann

We study the diffusive behavior of biased Brownian particles in a two dimensional confined geometry filled with the freezing obstacles. The transport properties of these particles are investigated for various values of the obstacles density…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

A quasi-two-dimensional system of hard spheres strongly confined between two parallel plates is considered. The attention is focussed on the macroscopic self-diffusion process observed when the system is looked from above or from below. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-09 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

We investigate the diffusive motion of an overdamped classical particle in a 1D random potential using the mean first-passage time formalism and demonstrate the efficiency of this method in the investigation of the large-time dynamics of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Gorokhov , G. Blatter

We present a numerical and partially analytical study of classical particles obeying a Langevin equation that describes diffusion on a surface modeled by a two dimensional potential. The potential may be either periodic or random. Depending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Lacasta , J. M. Sancho , A. H. Romero , I. M. Sokolov , K. Lindenberg

The Lorentz gas describes an ensemble of noninteracting point particles in an infinite array of spherical scatterers. In the present paper we consider the case when the scatterer configuration P is a fixed union of (translated) lattices in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Matthew Palmer , Andreas Strömbergsson

The L\'evy-Lorentz gas describes the motion of a particle on the real line in the presence of a random array of scattering points, whose distances between neighboring points are heavy-tailed i.i.d. random variables with finite mean. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Marco Zamparo

Various lattice gas automata have been proposed in the past decades to simulate physics and address a host of problems on collective dynamics arising in diverse fields. In this work, we employ the lattice gas model defined on the sphere to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-29 Zhenwei Yao

In systems with overdamped dynamics, the Lorentz force reduces the diffusivity of a Brownian particle in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field. The anisotropy in diffusion implies that the Fokker-Planck equation for the probabiliy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Iman Abdoli , Hidde Derk Vuijk , Rene Wittmann , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Joseph Michael Brader , Abhinav Sharma

Previous experiments and numerical simulations have revealed that a limited number of two- and three-dimensional particle systems contract in volume upon heating isobarically. This anomalous phenomenon is known as negative thermal expansion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-21 Igor Travěnec , Ladislav Šamaj

A two dimensional self-gravitating Hamiltonian model made by $N$ fully-coupled classical particles exhibits a transition from a collapsing phase (CP) at low energy to a homogeneous phase (HP) at high energy. From a dynamical point of view,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Mickael Antoni , Alessandro Torcini

In the present paper one-dimensional two-component atomic Fermi gas is considered in long-wave limit as a Luttinger liquid. The mechanisms leading to instability of the non-Fermi-liquid state of a Luttinger liquid with two-level impurities…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Manakova

The thermodynamic formalism expresses chaotic properties of dynamical systems in terms of the Ruelle pressure $\psi(\beta)$. The inverse-temperature like variable $\beta$ allows one to scan the structure of the probability distribution in…

chao-dyn · Physics 2017-09-20 C. Appert , H. van Beijeren , M. H. Ernst , J. R. Dorfman

There is experimental and theoretical evidence that the broad rapidity distribution of net proton yield in central heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies could be a signal of non-equilibrium properties of the system. We show that the broad…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Lavagno

It has been conjectured that transport in integrable one-dimensional (1D) systems is necessarily ballistic. The large diffusive response seen experimentally in nearly ideal realizations of the S=1/2 1D Heisenberg model is therefore puzzling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-01 J. Sirker , R. G. Pereira , I. Affleck

In this article we review classical and recent results in anomalous diffusion and provide mechanisms useful for the study of the fundamentals of certain processes, mainly in condensed matter physics, chemistry and biology. Emphasis will be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-25 Fernando A. Oliveira , Rogelma M. S. Ferreira , Luciano C. Lapas , Mendeli H. Vainstein

The analytical solution for the propagation of the laser beam with optical vortex through the system of lenses is presented. The optical vortex is introduced into the laser beam (described as Gaussian beam) by spiral phase plate. The…

We establish asymptotic diffusion limits of the non-classical transport equation derived in [E. W. Larsen, A generalized Boltzmann equation for non-classical particle transport, Joint international topical meeting on mathematics &…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Martin Frank , Weiran Sun