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We investigate the transience/recurrence of a non-Markovian, one-dimensional diffusion process which consists of a Brownian motion with a non-anticipating drift that has two phases---a transient to $+\infty$ mode which is activated when the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Ross G. Pinsky

The scaled Brownian motion (SBM) is regarded as one of the paradigmatic random processes, featuring the anomalous diffusion property characterized by the diffusion exponent. It is a Gaussian, self-similar process with independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Hubert Woszczek , Aleksei Chechkin , Agnieszka Wylomanska

Bacteria often traverse confined spaces to perform critical functions in symbiosis, infection, drug delivery, and soil bioremediation. While the canonical run-and-tumble strategy enables exploration, its reliance on constant sensing and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Viet Sang Doan , Ali Nikkhah , Sangwoo Shin

We investigate active lattice walks: biased continuous time random walks which perform orientational diffusion between lattice directions in one and two spatial dimensions. We study the occupation probability of an arbitrary site on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Stephy Jose , Dipanjan Mandal , Mustansir Barma , Kabir Ramola

Periodic reversals of the direction of motion in systems of self-propelled rod shaped bacteria enable them to effectively resolve traffic jams formed during swarming and maximize their swarming rate. In this paper, a connection is found…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Richard Gejji , Pavel M. Lushnikov , Mark Alber

We consider n-point sticky Brownian motions: a family of n diffusions that evolve as independent Brownian motions when they are apart, and interact locally so that the set of coincidence times has positive Lebesgue measure with positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Guillaume Barraquand , Mark Rychnovsky

In this paper we study the discrete approximation to Brownian motion with varying dimension (BMVD in abbreviation) introduced in [4] by continuous time random walks on square lattices. The state space of BMVD contains a $2$-dimensional…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Shuwen Lou

We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-30 Arnab Pal , Isaac Pérez Castillo , Anupam Kundu

The diffusive transport of biased Brownian particles in a two-dimensional symmetric channel is investigated numerically considering both the no-flow and the reflection boundary conditions at the channel boundaries. Here, the geometrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-10 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

Shape asymmetry is the most abundant in nature and attracted great interest in recent research. The phenomenon is widely recognized: a free ellipsoidal Brownian particle displays anisotropic diffusion during short time intervals, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-10 Sudipta Mandal , Anirban Ghosh

Motivated by the study of reversal behaviour of myxobacteria, in this article we are interested in a kinetic model for reversal dynamics, in which particles with directions close to be opposite undergo binary collision resulting in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Amic Frouvelle , Laura Kanzler , Christian Schmeiser

We investigate dynamical scaling properties of the 1D tight-binding Anderson model with a weak diagonal disorder, by means of the spreading of a wave packet. In the absence of disorder, and more generally in the ballistic regime, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 S. De Toro Arias , J. M. Luck

Molecular dynamics simulations were employed to investigate the phase separation process of a two-dimensional active Brownian dumbbell model. We evaluated the time dependence of the typical size of the dense component using the scaling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-13 C. B. Caporusso , L. F. Cugliandolo , P. Digregorio , G. Gonnella , A. Suma

Typically, in the description of active Brownian particles, a constant effective propulsion force is assumed, which is then subjected to fluctuations in orientation and translation leading to a persistent random walk with an enlarged…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-28 Sonja Babel , Borge ten Hagen , Hartmut Löwen

We study fluctuations of an ensemble of $N$ independent particles undergoing anomalous diffusion with random renewal resetting. The anomalous diffusion is modeled by the scaled Brownian motion (sBm): a Gaussian process, characterized by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Ohad Vilk , Baruch Meerson

This letter introduces a formalism for modeling time-variant channels for diffusive molecular communication systems. In particular, we consider a fluid environment where one transmitter nano-machine and one receiver nano-machine are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Adam Noel , Robert Schober

In this work we study a two-dimensional system composed by Active Brownian Particles (ABPs) interacting via a repulsive potential with two-length-scales, a soft shell and a hard-core. Depending on the ratio between the strength of the soft…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 Jose Martin-Roca , Raul Martinez , Fernando Martinez-Pedrero , Jorge Ramirez , Chantal Valeriani

In this paper, we investigate a Brownian motion (BM) with purely time dependent drift and difusion by suggesting and examining several Brownian functionals which characterize the lifetime and reactivity of such stochastic processes. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-15 Ashutosh Dubey , Malay Bandyopadhyay , A. M. Jayannavar

We analyze a simplistic model for run-and-tumble dynamics, motivated by observations of complex spatio-temporal patterns in colonies of myxobacteria. In our model, agents run with fixed speed either left or right, and agents turn with a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-12-04 Patrick Flynn , Quinton Neville , Arnd Scheel

It is well known that Brownian motion enjoys several distributional invariances such as the scaling property and the time reversal. In this paper, we prove another invariance of Brownian motion that is compatible with the time reversal. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Yuu Hariya