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Diffusion rates through a membrane can be asymmetric, if the diffusing particles are spatially extended and the pores in the membrane have asymmetric structure. This phenomenon is demonstrated here via a deterministic simulation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Packard , Rob Shaw

Diffusion models have revolutionized various application domains, including computer vision and audio generation. Despite the state-of-the-art performance, diffusion models are known for their slow sample generation due to the extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zehao Dou , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang , Zhuoran Yang

Turbulent puffs are ubiquitous in everyday life phenomena. Understanding their dynamics is important in a variety of situations ranging from industrial processes to pure and applied science. In all these fields, a deep knowledge of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 Andrea Mazzino , Marco E Rosti

In the present work, we propose an advection-diffusion equation with Hausdorff deformed derivatives to stud the turbulent diffusion of contaminants in the atmosphere. We compare the performance of our model to fit experimental data against…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-30 A. G. Goulart , M. J. Lazo , J. M. S. Suarez

A theoretical approach to describing transport of an entire ensemble of clusters with different sizes as a single species in gas has been developed. The major assumption is an existence of local partial chemical equilibrium between the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Eugene V. Stepanov , Alexander F. Gutsol

We study the dynamics of shock-tracking probe particles in driven diffusive systems and also in equilibrium systems. In a driven system, they induce a diverging timescale that marks the crossover between a passive scalar regime at early…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sakuntala Chatterjee , Mustansir Barma

Magnetic element tracking is often used to study the transport and diffusion of the magnetic field on the solar photosphere. From the analysis of the displacement spectrum of these tracers, it has been recently agreed that a regime of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-01 D. Del Moro , F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli , G. Consolini , F. Lepreti , M. Gosic

We present a random walk model that exhibits asymptotic subdiffusive, diffusive, and superdiffusive behavior in different parameter regimes. This appears to be the first instance of a single random walk model leading to all three forms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Niraj Kumar , Upendra Harbola , Katja Lindenberg

Diffusion models generate high-dimensional data such as images by learning a process that gradually removes noise from corrupted data. Recent studies have shown that the backward dynamics of diffusion models exhibit two characteristic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Tomoei Takahashi , Takashi Takahashi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Mixed reality applications require tracking the user's full-body motion to enable an immersive experience. However, typical head-mounted devices can only track head and hand movements, leading to a limited reconstruction of full-body motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Angela Castillo , Maria Escobar , Guillaume Jeanneret , Albert Pumarola , Pablo Arbeláez , Ali Thabet , Artsiom Sanakoyeu

The dynamics of ecological as well as chemical systems may depend on heterogeneous configurations. Heterogeneity in reaction-diffusion systems often increase modelling and simulating difficulties when non-linear effects are present. One…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-27 Orlando Silva

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models, inspiring extensive research into their underlying mechanisms. One of the key questions in this area is the loss functions these models shall train with. Multiple formulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Dibyanshu Kumar , Philipp Vaeth , Magda Gregorová

The paper presents an approach to olfactory search for a diffusive emitting source of tracer (e.g. aerosol, gas) in an environment with unknown map of randomly placed and shaped obstacles. The measurements of tracer concentration are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Branko Ristic , Alex Skvortsov , Andrew Walker

A common challenge in the natural sciences is to disentangle distinct, unknown sources from observations. Examples of this source separation task include deblending galaxies in a crowded field, distinguishing the activity of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Sydney Erickson

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that serve to establish a stochastic transport map between an empirically observed, yet unknown, target distribution and a known prior. Despite their remarkable success in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Puheng Li , Zhong Li , Huishuai Zhang , Jiang Bian

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

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

Locating the source of odor in a turbulent environment - a common behavior for living organisms - is non-trivial because of the random nature of mixing. Here we analyze the statistical physics aspects of the problem and propose an efficient…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eugene Balkovsky , Boris I. Shraiman

Motion models (i.e., transition probability densities) are often deduced from fluorescence widefield tracking experiments by analyzing single-particle trajectories post-processed from data. This analysis immediately raises the question: To…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Zachary H. Hendrix , Lance W. Q. Xu , Steve Pressé

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the pattern formation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations coupled with ordinary differential equations. Such systems of equations arise, for example, from modeling of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki