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A horizontal $N$-dimensional plane, having a diffusion of its own, exchanges with the lower half space. There, a reaction-diffusion process, modelled by a free boundary problem, takes place. We wish to understand whether, and how, the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Luis A. Caffarelli , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Ignacio Tomasetti

We study the diffusion of a tracer particle driven out-of-equilibrium by an external force and traveling in a dense environment of arbitrary density. The system evolves on a discrete lattice and its stochastic dynamics is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou , Gleb Oshanin , Alessandro Sarracino , Raphaël Voituriez

We study the kinetics of diffusion-limited coalescence, A+A-->A, and annihilation, A+A-->0, in the Bethe lattice of coordination number z. Correlations build up over time so that the probability to find a particle next to another varies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel ben-Avraham , M. Lawrence Glasser

We show that the distribution of times for a diffusing particle to first hit an absorber is \emph{independent} of the direction of an external flow field, when we condition on the event that the particle reaches the target for flow away…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-26 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

We treat the problem of particle pushing by growing ice as a free diffusion near a wall that moves with discrete steps. When the particle diffuse away from the surface the surface can grow, blocking the particle from going back. Elementary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-01 Michael Chasnitsky , Victor Yashunsky , Ido Braslavsky

We consider a particle diffusing along the links of a general graph possessing some absorbing vertices. The particle, with a spatially-dependent diffusion constant D(x) is subjected to a drift U(x) that is defined in every point of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Benichou , J. Desbois

The problem of the time required for a diffusing molecule, within a large bounded domain, to first locate a small target is prevalent in biological modeling. Here we study this problem for a small spherical target. We develop uniform in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Samuel A. Isaacson , Jay Newby

We find explicit upper bounds for the density of marginals of continuous diffusions where we assume that the diffusion coefficient is constant and the drift is solely assumed to be progressively measurable and locally bounded. In one…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Paul Krühner , Shijie Xu

Molecular kinetic simulations are typically used to accurately describe the tenuous regions of the upper atmospheres on planetary bodies. These simulations track the motion of particles representing real atmospheric atoms and/or molecules…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 S. R. Carberry Mogan , O. J. Tucker , R. E. Johnson

Systems describing the long-range interaction between individuals have attracted a lot of attention in the last years, in particular in relation with living systems. These systems are quadratic, written under the form of transport equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Marie Doumic , Sophie Hecht , Benoit Perthame , Diane Peurichard

We probe the diffusive motion of particles in slowly sheared three dimensional granular suspensions. For sufficiently large strains, the particle dynamics exhibits diffusive Gaussian statistics, with the diffusivity proportional to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Elie Wandersman , Joshua A. Dijksman , Martin van Hecke

Scale-free surfaces, such as cones, remain unchanged under a simultaneous expansion of all coordinates by the same factor. Probability density of a particle diffusing near such absorbing surface at large time approaches a simple form that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-28 Nir Alfasi , Yacov Kantor

We consider particles on a one-dimensional lattice whose evolution is governed by nearest-neighbor interactions where particles that have reached size zero are removed from the system. Concentrating on configurations with infinitely many…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Michael Helmers , Barbara Niethammer , Juan J. L. Velazquez

We investigate the relationship between the effective diffusivity and effective drift of a particle moving in a random medium. The velocity of the particle combines a white noise diffusion process with a local drift term that depends…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. S. Dean , I. T. Drummond , R. R. Horgan

We solve a non-equilibrium statistical mechanics problem exactly, namely, the single-file dynamics of N hard-core interacting particles (the particles cannot pass each other) of size \Delta diffusing in a one dimensional system of finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-22 Ludvig Lizana , Tobias Ambjornsson

We examine the behavior of $n$ Brownian particles diffusing on the real line with bounded, measurable drift and bounded, piecewise continuous diffusion coefficients that depend on the current configuration of particles. Sufficient…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-19 Tomoyuki Ichiba , Ioannis Karatzas

The diffusion of a particle in a crowded environment typically proceeds through three regimes: for very short times the particle diffuses freely until it collides with an obstacle for the first time, while for very long times diffusion the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Nguiya P. Neo , Gary W. Slater

We study the elusive transition from exponential to post-exponential (algebraic) decay of the probability density of a quantum particle emitted by an exponentially decaying source, in one dimension. The main finding is that the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Torrontegui , J. G. Muga , J. Martorell , D. W. L. Sprung

This is part II of our study on the free boundary problems with nonlocal and local diffusions. In part I, we obtained the existence, uniqueness, regularity and estimates of global solution. In part II here, we show a spreading-vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Jianping Wang , Mingxin Wang

Travelling waves of densities of binary fluid mixtures are investigated near a critical point. The free energy is considered in a non-local form taking account of the density gradients. The equations of motions are applied to a universal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Henri Gouin , Augusto Muracchini , Tommaso Ruggeri