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Last year in [Phys. Rev. E 102, 042121 (2020)] the authors studied an overdamped dynamics of nonequilibrium noise driven Brownian particle dwelling in a spatially periodic potential and discovered a novel class of Brownian, yet non-Gaussian…

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A Brownian particle floating in a narrow corrugated (sinusoidal) channel with fluctuating cross section exhibits non-Gaussian normal diffusion. Its displacements are distributed according to a Gaussian law for very short and asymptotically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-09 Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni , Debajyoti Debnath , Pulak K. Ghosh

In many physical or biological systems, diffusion can be described by Brownian motions with stochastic diffusion coefficients (DCs). In the present study, we investigate properties of the diffusion with a broad class of stochastic DCs with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-13 Go Uchida , Hitoshi Washizu , Hiromi Miyoshi

Three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations provide a striking confirmation to a recent theoretical prediction: the Brownian non-Gaussian diffusion of critical self-avoiding walks. Although the mean square displacement of the polymer center…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-21 Boris Marcone , Sankaran Nampoothiri , Enzo Orlandini , Flavio Seno , Fulvio Baldovin

A considerable number of systems have recently been reported in which Brownian yet non-Gaussian dynamics was observed. These are processes characterised by a linear growth in time of the mean squared displacement, yet the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-26 V. Sposini , A. V. Chechkin , F. Seno , G. Pagnini , R. Metzler

The standard diffusive spreading, characterized by a Gaussian distribution with mean square displacement that grows linearly with time, can break down, for instance, under the presence of correlations and heterogeneity. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 M. A. F. dos Santos , E. H. Colombo , C. Anteneodo

According to the classical theory of Brownian motion, the mean squared displacement of diffusing particles evolves linearly with time whereas the distribution of their displacements is Gaussian. However, recent experiments on mesoscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-24 J. M. Miotto , S. Pigolotti , A. V. Chechkin , S. Roldán-Vargas

Living cells are known to generate non-Gaussian active fluctuations significantly larger than thermal fluctuations owing to various active processes. Understanding the effect of these active fluctuations on various physicochemical…

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We study the diffusion of particles confined close to a single wall and in double-wall planar channel geometries where the local diffusivities depend on the distance to the boundaries. Displacement parallel to the walls is Brownian as…

Experiments involving the two-dimensional passive diffusion of colloidal boomerangs tracked off their centre of mobility have shown striking non-Gaussian tails in their probability distribution function [Chakrabarty et al., Soft Matter 12,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-18 Lyndon Koens , Maciej Lisicki , Eric Lauga

In recent years, several experiments highlighted a new type of diffusion anomaly, which was called Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion. In systems displaying this behavior, the mean squared displacement of the diffusing particles grows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-01 Adrian Pacheco-Pozo , Igor M. Sokolov

In the last years, a few experiments in the fields of biological and soft matter physics in colloidal suspensions have reported normal diffusion with a Laplacian probability distribution in the particles displacements (i.e., Brownian yet…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-22 Francisco E. Alban Chacón , Erick A. Lamilla Rubio , Manuel S. Alvarez Alvarado

The transport phenomenon (movement and diffusion) of inertia Brownian particles in a periodic potential with non-Gaussian noise is investigated. It is found that proper noise intensity Q will promote particles directional movement(or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Bing Wang , Xiaoxiao Zhang , Yajuan Sun , Zhongwei Qu , Xuechao Li

The passive and active motion of micron-sized tracer particles in crowded liquids and inside living biological cells is ubiquitously characterised by "viscoelastic" anomalous diffusion, in which the increments of the motion feature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-05 Wei Wang , Flavio Seno , Igor M. Sokolov , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

A possible mechanism leading to anomalous diffusion is the presence of long-range correlations in time between the displacements of the particles. Fractional Brownian motion, a non-Markovian self-similar Gaussian process with stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Alexander H O Wada , Alex Warhover , Thomas Vojta

Non-Gaussianity indicates complex dynamics related to extreme events or significant outliers. However, the correlation between non-Gaussianity and the dynamics of heterogeneous environments in anomalous diffusion remains uncertain. Inspired…

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Wang et al. [PNAS 106 (2009) 15160] have found that in several systems the linear time dependence of the mean-square displacement (MSD) of diffusing colloidal particles, typical of normal diffusion, is accompanied by a non-Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mykyta V. Chubynsky , Gary W. Slater

Giant diffusion, where the diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle in a periodic potential with an external force is significantly enhanced by the external force, is a non-trivial non-equilibrium phenomenon. We propose a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Kento Iida , Andreas Dechant , Takuma Akimoto

Brownian particles suspended in disordered crowded environments often exhibit non-Gaussian normal diffusion (NGND), whereby their displacements grow with mean square proportional to the observation time and non-Gaussian statistics. Their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-19 Qingqing Yin , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni , Shubhadip Nayak , Pulak Ghosh

A growing number of biological, soft, and active matter systems are observed to exhibit normal diffusive dynamics with a linear growth of the mean squared displacement, yet with a non-Gaussian distribution of increments. Based on the…

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