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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

Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are termed out to be a successful way of modeling the moving microorganism on the substrate. In recent studies, it is shown that such organisms can sense the characteristics of the substrate. Motivated by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Pawan Kumar Mishra , Ajeya Krishna , Shradha Mishra

Brownian particles in random potentials show an extended regime of subdiffusive dynamics at intermediate times. The asymptotic diffusive behavior is often established at very long times and thus cannot be accessed in experiments or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-22 Richard D. L. Hanes , Michael Schmiedeberg , Stefan U. Egelhaaf

The one-dimensional overdamped Brownian motion in a symmetric periodic potential modulated by external time-reversible noise is analyzed. The calculation of the effective diffusion coefficient is reduced to the mean first passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander Dubkov

The motion of particles in random potentials occurs in several natural phenomena ranging from the mobility of organelles within a biological cell to the diffusion of stars within a galaxy. A Brownian particle moving in the random optical…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-06 Giorgio Volpe , Giovanni Volpe , Sylvain Gigan

We discuss the situations under which Brownian yet non-Gaussian (BnG) diffusion can be observed in the model of a particle's motion in a random landscape of diffusion coefficients slowly varying in space. Our conclusion is that such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-15 E. B. Postnikov , A. Chechkin , I. M. Sokolov

Single-file diffusion (SFD) is a key mechanism underlying transport phenomena in confined physical and biological systems. In a typical SFD process, microscopic particles are restricted to moving in a narrow channel where they cannot pass…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 A. Akintunde , P. Bayati , H. Row , S. A. Mallory

Together with the universally recognized SIR model, several approaches have been employed to understand the contagious dynamics of interacting particles. Here, Active Brownian particles (ABP) are introduced to model the contagion dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-03 Ariel Norambuena , Felipe Valencia , Francisca Guzmán-Lastra

The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model exemplifies a wide class of active matter particles. In this work, we demonstrate how this model can be cast into a field theory in both two and three dimensions. Our aim is manifold: we wish both to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-26 Ziluo Zhang , Lili Fehértói-Nagy , Maria Polackova , Gunnar Pruessner

In this work, we report a new method to simulate active Brownian particles (ABPs) in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Immersed in a fluid, each ABP consists of a head particle and a spherical phantom region of fluid where the flagellum…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-15 Liya Wang , Xinpeng Xu , Zhigang Li , Tiezheng Qian

Brownian motion provides a bedrock for the understanding of soft condensed matter and, therefore, of the physical description of the microscopic biological world. Inspired by this domain, and combining softness with hydrodynamic energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-09 Joshua D Mcgraw

We describe a two-dimensional model for active particles whose self-propulsion speed is not fixed, but varies in time, and whose motion is subject to both translational and rotational diffusion. In the conventional treatment of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Tayeb Jamali

Accumulation at boundaries represents a widely observed phenomenon in active systems with implications for microbial ecology and engineering applications. To rationalize the underlying physics, we provide analytical predictions for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Yanis Baouche , Mathis Guéneau , Christina Kurzthaler

Using a time-averaging technique we obtain exactly the probability distribution for position and velocity of a Brownian particle under the influence of two heat baths at different temperatures. These baths are expressed by a white noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 D. O. Soares-Pinto , W. A. M. Morgado

We consider a random model of diffusion and coagulation. A large number of small particles are randomly scattered at an initial time. Each particle has some integer mass and moves in a Brownian motion whose diffusion rate is determined by…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Alan Hammond , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou

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

We study the dynamics of Brownian particles in a heterogeneous one-dimensional medium with a spatially-dependent diffusion coefficient of the form $D(x)\sim |x|^c$, at constant temperature. The particle's probability distribution function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Shaked Regev , Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Oded Farago

The diffusion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a tilted periodic potential is known to exhibit a pronounced enhancement over the free thermal diffusion within a small interval of tilt-values. Here we show that weak disorder in the form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Reimann , Ralf Eichhorn

The paper studies the overdamped motion of Brownian particles in a tilted sawtooth potential. The dependencies of the diffusion coefficient and coherence level of Brownian transport on temperature, tilting force, and the shape of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Heinsalu , R. Tammelo , T. Ord