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We study diffusion of colloids on a fluid-fluid interface using particle simulations and fluctuating hydrodynamics. Diffusion on a two-dimensional interface with three-dimensional hydrodynamics is known to be anomalous, with the collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 R. P. Peláez , F. Balboa Usabiaga , S. Panzuela , Q. Xiao , R. Delgado-Buscalioni , A. Donev

We examine the multi--point velocity field for non--Gaussian models as a probe of non--Gaussian behavior. The two--point velocity correlation is not a useful indicator of a non--Gaussian density field, since it depends only on the power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Paolo Catelan , Robert J. Scherrer

We derive the exact evolution equation for the probability density function of particle displacements generated by arbitrary Gaussian velocity processes, when neither Markovianity and nor stationarity are assumed. Starting from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Alessandro Taloni , Gianni Pagnini , Aleksei Chechkin

An analysis of superdiffusion in two-dimensional strongly correlated Yukawa liquids is presented. In particular, we report a regular, montonic behavior of the diffusion exponent on the screening parameter.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Ott , M. Bonitz , P. Hartmann

Non-Gaussian nature of the probability distribution of particles' displacements in the supercooled temperature regime in glass-forming liquids are believed to be one of the major hallmarks of glass transition. It is already been established…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik , Indrajit Tah , Smarajit Karmakar

We perform Dynamic Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the equilibrium dynamics of hard colloidal cuboids in oblate and prolate nematic liquid crystals. In particular, we characterise the particles' diffusion along the nematic director…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-27 Alejandro Cuetos , Alessandro Patti

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

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We compute linear and quadratic static density response functions of three-dimensional Yukawa liquids by applying an external perturbation potential in molecular dynamics simulations. The response functions are also obtained from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Magyar , Z. Donko , G. J. Kalman , K. I. Golden

The structure and dynamics of a harmonically confined three dimensional finite dust cluster are investigated via both Langevin Dynamics (LD) and frictionless Molecular Dynamics (fMD) simulation. The static structure of the system is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Hirakjyoti Sarma , Nilakshi Das

The Bayesian smoothing equations are generally intractable for systems described by nonlinear stochastic differential equations and discrete-time measurements. Gaussian approximations are a computationally efficient way to approximate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Juha Ala-Luhtala , Simo Särkkä , Robert Piché

We study a gas of hard rods on a ring, driven by an external thermostat, with either elastic or inelastic collisions, which exhibits sub-diffusive behavior $<x^2 > \sim t^{1/2}$. We show the validity of the usual Fluctuation-Dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-10 D. Villamaina , A. Puglisi , A. Vulpiani

Obtaining a reduced description with particle and momentum flux densities outgoing from the microscopic equations of motion of the particles requires approximations. The usual method, we refer to as truncation method, is to zero Fourier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Hamid Seyed-Allaei , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

Density waves are characteristic for fluidized beds and affect measurements on liquid-like dynamics in fluidized granular media. Here, the intensity autocorrelation function as obtainable with diffusing-wave spectroscopy is derived in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-12 Philip Born , Steffen Reinhold , Matthias Sperl

A ubiquitous observation in crowded cell membranes is that molecular transport does not follow Fickian diffusion but exhibits subdiffusion. The microscopic origin of such a behaviour is not understood and highly debated. Here we discuss the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-15 Felix Höfling , Karl-Ulrich Bamberg , Thomas Franosch

The non-Markovian continuous-time random walk model, featuring fat-tailed waiting times and narrow distributed displacements with a non-zero mean, is a well studied model for anomalous diffusion. Using an analytical approach, we recently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-18 Wanli Wang , Eli Barkai

We present results from the first high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of non-Gaussian cosmological models. We focus on the statistical properties of the transmitted Lyman-alpha flux in the high redshift intergalactic medium. Imprints…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 M. Viel , E. Branchini , K. Dolag , M. Grossi , S. Matarrese , L. Moscardini

A model for diffusion in liquids that couples the dynamics of tracer particles to a fluctuating Stokes equation for the fluid is investigated in the limit of large Schmidt number. In this limit, the concentration of tracers is shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 A. Donev , T. G. Fai , and E. Vanden-Eijnden

We establish the convergence of the densities of a sequence of nonlinear functionals of an underlying Gaussian process to the density of a Gamma distribution. The key idea of our work is a new density formula for random variables in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Solesne Bourguin , Thanh Dang , Yaozhong Hu

The diffusivity of tagged particles is demonstrated to be very heterogeneous on time scales comparable to or shorter than the $\alpha$ relaxation time $\tau_{\alpha}$ ($\cong$ the stress relaxation time) in a highly supercooled liquid via…

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