English
Related papers

Related papers: Anomalous diffusion in a randomly modulated veloci…

200 papers

The Mean Square Displacement is a central tool in the analysis of Single Particle Tracking experiments, shedding light on various biophysical phenomena. Frequently, parameters are extracted by performing time-averages on single particle…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Eldad Kepten Irena Bronshtein , Yuval Garini

We study the biased diffusion of particles moving in one direction under the action of a constant force in the presence of a piecewise linear random potential. Using the overdamped equation of motion, we represent the first and second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-08 S. I. Denisov , E. S. Denisova , H. Kantz

Anomalous transport in tilted periodic potentials is investigated within the framework of the fractional Fokker-Planck dynamics and the underlying continuous time random walk. The analytical solution for the stationary, anomalous current is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-17 I. Goychuk , E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , G. Schmid , P. Hanggi

A classical wave-particle entity in the form of a millimetric walking droplet can emerge on the free surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath. Such wave-particle entities have been shown to exhibit hydrodynamic analogs of quantum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 Rahil N. Valani

We demonstrate and analyze anomalous diffusion properties of point-like particles in a two-dimensional system with circular scatterers arranged in a square lattice and governed by smooth potentials, referred to as the square soft Lorentz…

It is investigated the statistical properties of random walks evolving on real configurations of a crumpled wire rigidly jammed in two dimensions. These crumpled hierarchical structures with complex topology are obtained from a metallic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. C. Donato , F. A. Oliveira , M. A. F. Gomes

Sub-diffusion in biological systems is conventionally treated as anomalous, requiring fractional derivatives, heavy-tailed waiting times, or fitted memory kernels. We argue that this anomaly is an artifact of an incomplete phase space.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Patrick BarAvi

We consider moving particles in media with nonlinear friction and drive them by an asymmetric dichotomic Markov process. Due to different energy dissipations, during the forward and backward stroke, we obtain a mean non-vanishing directed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-18 Gökan Cebiroglu , Christian Weber , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

In recent work, we developed a screening theory for describing the effect of plastic events in amorphous solids on its emergent mechanics. The suggested theory uncovered an anomalous mechanical response of amorphous solids where plastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Harish Charan , Michael Moshe , Itamar Procaccia

A numerical study of the role of anomalous diffusion in front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems is presented. Three models of anomalous diffusion are considered: fractional diffusion, tempered fractional diffusion, and a model that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-11 D. del-Castillo-Negrete

Self-assembly and dynamical properties of Janus nanoparticles have been studied by molecular dynamic simulations. The nanoparticles are modeled as dimers and they are confined between two flat parallel plates to simulate a thin film. One…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-05 Leandro B. Krott , Cristina Gavazzoni , José R. Bordin

The transport of an infinitely thin, hard rod in a random, dense array of point obstacles is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Our model mimics the sterically hindered dynamics in dense needle liquids. The center-of-mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-22 Felix Höfling , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

For every $\alpha < \frac13$, we construct an explicit divergence-free vector field $\mathbf{b}(t,x)$ which is periodic in space and time and belongs to $C^0_t C^{\alpha}_x \cap C^{\alpha}_t C^0_x$ such that the corresponding scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Scott Armstrong , Vlad Vicol

The diffusion process near low order synchro-betatron resonances driven by beam-beam interactions at a crossing angle is investigated. Macroscopic observables such as beam emittance, lifetime and beam profiles are calculated. These are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tanaji Sen

The deviation from pure Brownian motion generally referred to as anomalous diffusion has received large attention in the scientific literature to describe many physical scenarios. Several methods, based on classical statistics and machine…

We report new results about the anomalous diffusion of a particle in an aging medium. For each given age, the quasi-stationary particle velocity is governed by a generalized Langevin equation with a frequency-dependent friction coefficient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Noelle Pottier , Alain Mauger

The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the main concepts behind normal and anomalous diffusion. Starting from simple, but well known experiments, a series of mathematical modeling tools are introduced, and the relation between them is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-06 Loukas Vlahos , Heinz Isliker , Yannis Kominis , Kyriakos Hizanidis

In this work we study the transition from normal to anomalous diffusion of Brownian particles on disordered potentials. The potential model consists of a series of "potential hills" (defined on unit cell of constant length) whose heights…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-03-23 R. Salgado-Garcia

We study far from equilibrium transport of a periodically driven inertial Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential. As detected recently for a SQUID ratchet dynamics (Spiechowicz J. & Luczka J. Phys. Rev. E 91, 062104 (2015)), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Particles moving along curved trajectories will diffuse if the curvature fluctuates sufficiently in either magnitude or orientation. We consider particles moving at a constant speed with either a fixed or with a Gaussian distributed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew D. Rutenberg , Andrew J. Richardson , Claire J. Montgomery