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The diffusion transport coefficients of a binary granular suspension where one of the components is present in tracer concentration are determined from the (inelastic) Enskog kinetic equation. The effect of the interstitial gas on the solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-30 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

We derive effective equations of motion governing the dynamics of sharp interfaces in phase-separated binary mixtures driven by spatio-temporal modulations of their material properties. We demonstrate, in particular, that spatial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-25 Jacopo Romano , Ramin Golestanian , Benoît Mahault

Compressive isothermal turbulence is known to have a near lognormal density probability distribution function (PDF) with a width that scales with the sonic Mach number and nature of the turbulent driving (solenoidal vs compressive).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart

Single-file diffusion (SFD) is a key mechanism underlying transport phenomena in confined physical and biological systems. In a typical SFD process, microscopic particles are restricted to moving in a narrow channel where they cannot pass…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 A. Akintunde , P. Bayati , H. Row , S. A. Mallory

Brownian motion of single particles with various masses M and diameters D is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Besides the momentum auto-correlation function of the Brownian particle the memory function and the fluctuating force…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hyun Kyung Shin , Changho Kim , Peter Talkner , Eok Kyun Lee

The role of layer disorder is important in establishing the topological phases of MoTe${_2}$. A rich tapestry of atomic ordering influences the structural phase transitions (SPTs), but there is little understanding of the mechanistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-07 Sumit Khadka , Leighanne C. Gallington , Byron Freelon

We study the dynamics of a small solid particle arising from the dewetting of a thin film on a curved substrate driven by capillarity, where mass transport is controlled by surface diffusion. We consider the case when the size of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-06 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Yan Wang , David J. Srolovitz , Tiezheng Qian , Weizhu Bao

This paper investigates the position (state) distribution of the single step binomial (multi-nomial) process on a discrete state / time grid under the assumption that the velocity process rather than the state process is Markovian. In this…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-06-03 Johan GB Beumee , Chris Cormack , Peyman Khorsand , Manish Patel

In these lecture notes, we explore the mathematical preliminaries and foundational concepts that connect stochastic processes with partial differential equations. We begin by investigating Brownian motion, which serves as a model for random…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Helder Rojas

Diffusion is a central phenomenon in almost all fields of natural science revealing microscopic processes from the observation of macroscopic dynamics. Here, we consider the paradigmatic system of a single atom diffusing in a periodic…

We have discovered analytical expressions for the probability density function (PDF) of photons that are multiply scattered in relativistic flows, under the assumption of isotropic and inelastic scattering. These expressions characterize…

We study potentially observable consequences of spatiotemporal discreteness for the motion of massive and massless particles. First we describe some simple intrinsic models for the motion of a massive point particle in a fixed causal set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-25 Fay Dowker , Lydia Philpott , Rafael Sorkin

We investigate the single-point probability density function of the velocity in three-dimensional stationary and decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence. To this end we apply the statistical framework of the Lundgren-Monin-Novikov…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-04 Michael Wilczek , Anton Daitche , Rudolf Friedrich

In the coordinate representation of thermofield dynamics, we investigate the thermalized displaced squeezed thermal state which involves two temperatures successively. We give the wavefunction and the matrix element of the density operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wen-Fa Lu

In this work we consider theoretically the problem of a Newtonian droplet moving in an otherwise quiescent infinite viscoelastic fluid under the influence of an externally applied temperature gradient. The outer fluid is modelled by the…

We study the diffusion of Brownian particles on the surface of a sphere and compute the distribution of solid angles enclosed by the diffusing particles. This function describes the distribution of geometric phases in two state quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. M. G. Krishna , Joseph Samuel , Supurna Sinha

Thermally induced particle flow in a charged colloidal suspension is studied in a fluid-mechanical approach. The force density acting on the charged boundary layer is derived in detail. From Stokes' equation with no-slip boundary conditions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-31 S. Fayolle , T. Bickel , A. Würger

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density of molecular clouds provides essential information about the structure of molecular cloud gas and condensed structures out of which stars may form. In general, the PDF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jörg Fischera

The impact of thermal fluctuations on the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain driven through a narrow pore has been investigated theoretically and by means of extensive Molecular-Dynamics (MD) simulation. The theoretical consideration…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , V. G. Rostiashvili , A. Milchev , T. A. Vilgis

Diffusion coefficient measurements are important for many biological and material investigations, such as particle dynamics, kinetics, and size determinations. Amongst current measurement methods, single particle tracking (SPT) offers the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2011-07-12 Shannon Kian Zareh , Michael C. DeSantis , Jonathan Kessler , Je-Luen Li , Y. M. Wang