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The Brownian motion of a particle in a one-dimensional periodic potential subjected to a uniform external force F is studied. Using the formula for the diffusion coefficient D obtained by other authors and an alternative one derived from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuo Sasaki , Satoshi Amari

We study the diffusive motion of a particle in a subharmonic potential of the form $U(x)=|x|^c$ ($0<c<2$) driven by long-range correlated, stationary fractional Gaussian noise $\xi_{\alpha}(t)$ with $0<\alpha\le2$. In the absence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-13 Tobias Guggenberger , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We study subdiffusive ratchet transport in periodically and randomly flashing potentials. Central Brownian particle is elastically coupled to surrounding auxiliary Brownian quasi-particles which account for the influence of viscoelastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-04 Vasyl Kharchenko , Igor Goychuk

We consider anomalous non-Markovian transport of Brownian particles in viscoelastic fluid-like media with very large but finite macroscopic viscosity under the influence of a constant force field F. The viscoelastic properties of the medium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-24 Igor Goychuk

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

Diffusion coefficient usually decreases when friction increases. We analyze the opposite behavior in the paradigmatic system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric spatially periodic potential and driven by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-31 I. G. Marchenko , I. I. Marchenko , V. Aksenova , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

We consider the long-time behavior of a diffusion process on $\mathbb{R}^d$ advected by a stationary random vector field which is assumed to be divergence-free, dihedrally symmetric in law and have a log-correlated potential. A special case…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Scott Armstrong , Ahmed Bou-Rabee , Tuomo Kuusi

In this Letter, we clarify the physical origin of effective transport in periodic and tilted periodic systems. When Brownian dynamics is examined on the scale of a single period, the particle displacement admits a natural separation into a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Sang Yang , Zhixin Peng

A model for anomalous transport of tracer particles diffusing in complex media in two dimensions is proposed. The model takes into account the characteristics of persistent motion that active bath transfer to the tracer, thus the model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Francisco J. Sevilla , Adriano Valdés-Gómez , Alexis Torres-Carbajal

We study the motion of Brownian particle in modulated media in the strong damping limit by using {\em toy model}, with special emphasis on the transition from localise to diffusive behavior. By using model potential we have seen the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Himadri S. Samanta

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

We study the long-time behavior of underdamped Brownian particle moving through a viscous medium and in a systematic potential, when it is subjected to a space-dependent high-frequency periodic force. When the frequency is very large, much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Malay Bandyopadhyay , Sushanta Dattagupta , Monamie Sanyal

The diffusion of a fractional Brownian particle passing over the saddle point is studied in the field of the metastable potential. The barrier escaping probability is found to be greatly related to the fractional exponent $\alpha$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-24 Chun-Yang Wang , Cui-Feng Sun , Hong Zhang , Xue-Mei Zong , Ming Yi

We study the Brownian motion of a charged test particle driven by quantum electromagnetic fluctuations in the vacuum region near a non-dispersive and non-absorbing dielectric half-space and calculate the mean squared fluctuations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hongwei Yu , Xiangyun Fu , Puxun Wu

We consider Brownian particles immersed in the fluid which flow is turbulent. We study the limit where the particles' inertia is weak and their velocity relaxes fast to the velocity of the flow. The trajectories of the particles in this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-25 Itzhak Fouxon , Eugene Mednikov

We analyse the impact of temperature on the diffusion coefficient of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and driven by a symmetric time-periodic force. Recent studies have revealed the low friction regime…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 I. G. Marchenko , V. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

Particles transported in fluid flows, such as cells, polymers, or nanorods, are rarely spherical. In this study, we numerically and theoretically investigate the dispersion of an initially localized patch of passive elongated Brownian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ajay Harishankar Kumar , Stuart J. Thomson , Thomas R. Powers , Daniel M. Harris

Nonergodicity observed in single-particle tracking experiments is usually modeled by transient trapping rather than spatial disorder. We introduce models of a particle diffusing in a medium consisting of regions with random sizes and random…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-23 P. Massignan , C. Manzo , J. A. Torreno-Pina , M. F. García-Parajo , M. Lewenstein , G. J. Lapeyre

Transport of overdamped Brownian particles in a two-dimensional asymmetric tube is investigated in the presence of nonadiabatic periodic driving forces. By using Brownian dynamics simulations we can find that the phenomena in nonadiabatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Bao-quan Ai

In this work we study the diffusion of non-interacting overdamped particles, moving on unbiased disordered correlated potentials, subjected to Gaussian white noise. We obtain an exact expression for the diffusion coefficient which allows us…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 Raul Salgado-Garcia , Cesar Maldonado