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The charge transport in some organic semiconductors demonstrates nonlinear properties and further universal power-law scaling with both bias and temperature. The physical origin of this behavior is investigated here using variable range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Ling Li , Nianduan Lu , Ming Liu

We study a system of particles moving on a line in the same direction. Passing is allowed and when a fast particle overtakes a slow particle, it acquires a new velocity drawn from a distribution P_0(v), while the slow particle remains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Ispolatov , P. L. Krapivsky

Cross-country soaring flights rely on intermittent atmospheric updrafts to cover long distances, producing trajectories that alternate between rapid relocation and local exploration. From a large dataset of paraglider, hang glider, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jérémie Vilpellet , Alexandre Darmon , Michael Benzaquen

A classical wave-particle entity in the form of a millimetric walking droplet can emerge on the free surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath. Such wave-particle entities have been shown to exhibit hydrodynamic analogs of quantum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 Rahil N. Valani

We study a system consisting of $n$ particles, moving forward in jumps on the real line. Each particle can make both independent jumps, whose sizes have some distribution, or ``synchronization'' jumps, which allow it to join a randomly…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Yuliy Baryshnikov , Alexander Stolyar

The transport of matter by turbulent flows plays an important role, in particular in a geophysical context. Here, we study the relative movement of groups of two (pairs) and four (tetrahedra) Lagrangian particles using direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-17 Sebastian Gallon , Fabio Feraco , Raffaele Marino , Alain Pumir

We investigate the transport of interacting active run-and-tumble particles moving under an external drift force through a periodic array of obstacles for increasing drive amplitudes. For high activity where the system forms a motility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Statistical properties of Brownian motion that arise by analyzing, separately, trajectories over which the system energy increases (upside) or decreases (downside) with respect to a threshold energy level, are derived. This selective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-02 Galen T. Craven , Abraham Nitzan

We study the motion of an overdamped colloidal particle in a time-dependent non-harmonic potential. We demonstrate the first law-like balance between applied work, exchanged heat, and internal energy on the level of a single trajectory. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Blickle , T. Speck , L. Helden , U. Seifert , C. Bechinger

Infiltration of diffusing particles from one material to another where the diffusion mechanism is either normal or anomalous is a widely observed phenomena. When the diffusion is anomalous we find interesting behaviors: diffusion may lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-04 Nickolay Korabel , Eli Barkai

In this paper, we study a stochastically driven non-equilibrium quantum system where the driving protocols consist of hopping and waiting processes. The waiting times between two hopping processes satisfy a heavy-tailed distribution. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-13 Chenyue Guo , Yuchen Bi

We numerically examine a binary system of particles with repulsive interactions, where one species is driven by a rotating drive and the other is subjected either to a constant drive in a fixed direction or to a rotating drive that is out…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We study reaction-diffusion systems where diffusion is by jumps whose sizes are distributed exponentially. We first study the Fisher-like problem of propagation of a front into an unstable state, as typified by the A+B $\to$ 2A reaction. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler

Discrete quantum walks are dynamical protocols for controlling a single quantum particle. Despite of its simplicity, quantum walks display rich topological phenomena and provide one of the simplest systems to study and understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 Takuya Kitagawa

A Quincke roller is a unique active particle that can run and tumble freely on a flat plate due to the torque generated by a uniform DC electric field applied perpendicular to the plate. A system involving many such particles exhibits a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-06 Shun Imamura , Kohei Sawaki , John J. Molina , Matthew S. Turner , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Cell movement, for example during embryogenesis or tumor metastasis, is a complex dynamical process resulting from an intricate interplay of multiple components of the cellular migration machinery. At first sight, the paths of migrating…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2009-04-17 Peter Dieterich , Rainer Klages , Roland Preuss , Albrecht Schwab

We consider a discrete time particle model for kinetic transport on the two dimensional integer lattice. The particle can move due to advection in the $x$-direction and due to dispersion. This happens when the particle is free, but it can…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Michel Dekking , Derong Kong , Annegreet van Opbroek

Any positive-energy state of a free Dirac particle that is initially highly-localized, evolves in time by spreading at speeds close to the speed of light. This general phenomenon is explained by the fact that the Dirac evolution can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. J. Bracken , D. Ellinas , I. Smyrnakis

We study the Hamiltonian motion of an ensemble of unconfined classical particles driven by an external field F through a translationally-invariant, thermal array of monochromatic Einstein oscillators. The system does not sustain a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Lafitte , P. E. Parris , S. De Bievre

The dynamics of many glassy systems are known to exhibit string-like hopping motions each consisting of a line of particles displacing one and other. By using molecular dynamics simulations of glassy polymers, we show that these motions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-29 Chi-Hang Lam