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Cell migration often exhibits long-range temporal correlations and anomalous diffusion, even in the absence of external guidance cues such as chemical gradients or topographical constraints. These observations raise a fundamental question:…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Gustavo Cornejo-Olea , Lucas Buvinic , Jerome Darbon , Radek Erban , Andrea Ravasio , Anastasios Matzavinos

Anomalous diffusion is an established phenomenon but still a theoretical challenge in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Physical models are built incrementally, and the most recent and most general family is based on the fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Christian Bender , Yana A. Butko , Mirko D'Ovidio , Gianni Pagnini

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

The diffusion of colloids inside an active system-e.g. within a living cell or the dynamics of active particles itself (e.g. self-propelled particles) can be modeled through overdamped Langevin equation which contains an additional noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-06 Koushik Goswami , K. L. Sebastian

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

We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to study the large-scale dynamical properties of Brownian particles with arbitrary pairwise interaction. By combining it with standard results of equilibrium statistical mechanics for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

For optimizing a non-convex function in finite dimension, a method is to add Brownian noise to a gradient descent, allowing for transitions between basins of attractions of different minimizers. To adapt this for optimization over a space…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Pierre Germain , Pierre Monmarché

Recent advances in single particle tracking and supercomputing techniques demonstrate the emergence of normal or anomalous, viscoelastic diffusion in conjunction with non-Gaussian distributions in soft, biological, and active matter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-23 Jakub Ślęzak , Ralf Metzler , Marcin Magdziarz

We study the paraxial wave equation with a randomly perturbed index of refraction, which can model the propagation of a wave beam in a turbulent medium. The random perturbation is a stationary and isotropic process with a general form of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

Nonreciprocal effective interaction forces can occur between mesoscopic particles in colloidal suspensions that are driven out of equilibrium. These forces violate Newton's third law actio=reactio on coarse-grained length and time scales.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 Jörg Bartnick , Marco Heinen , Alexei V Ivlev , Hartmut Löwen

We focus on the dynamics of a Brownian particle whose mass fluctuates. First we show that the behaviour is similar to that of a Brownian particle moving in a fluctuating medium, as studied by Beck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 180601]. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Lambiotte , M. Ausloos

The study of diffusion and low frequency vibrational motions of particles on metal surfaces is of paramount importance; it provides valuable information on the nature of the adsorbate-substrate and the substrate-substrate interactions. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-18 R. Martinez-Casado , J. L. Vega , A. S. Sanz , S Miret-Artes

The spreading of a cloud of independent Brownian particles typically proceeds more effectively at higher temperatures, as it derives from the commonly known Sutherland-Einstein relation for systems in thermal equilibrium. Here, we report on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Adsorption is a relevant process in many fields, such as product manufacturing or pollution remediation in porous materials. Adsorption takes place at the molecular scale, amenable to be modeled by Lagrangian numerical methods. We have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-15 Maryam Rahbaralam , Amir Abdollahi , Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia , Xavier Sanchez-Vila

Diffusion through semipermeable structures arises in a wide range of processes in the physical and life sciences. Examples at the microscopic level range from artificial membranes for reverse osmosis to lipid bilayers regulating molecular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Paul C Bressloff

We consider two different models for colloidal particles. In the first model, we consider their free motion to be diffusion while in the second model we take it to be integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. In both models, we derived…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Guolong Li

The transport phenomenon (movement and diffusion) of inertia Brownian particles in a periodic potential with non-Gaussian noise is investigated. It is found that proper noise intensity Q will promote particles directional movement(or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Bing Wang , Xiaoxiao Zhang , Yajuan Sun , Zhongwei Qu , Xuechao Li

Diffusive transport of particles or, more generally, small objects is a ubiquitous feature of physical and chemical reaction systems. In configurations containing confining walls or constrictions transport is controlled both by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-22 P. Sekhar Burada , Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni , Gerhard Schmid , Peter Talkner

We develop diffusion models for time-varying correlation using stochastic processes defined on the unit circle. Specifically, we study Brownian motion on the circle and the von Mises diffusion, and propose their use as continuous-time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Sourav Majumdar , Arnab Kumar Laha