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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

We prove a central limit theorem for the momentum distribution of a particle undergoing an unbiased spatially periodic random forcing at exponentially distributed times without friction. The start is a linear Boltzmann equation for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeremy Clark , Christian Maes

We develop a closed-form analytical theory for the transport of a chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) in three dimensions, moving through a fluctuating local density field that coarse-grains steric and dynamical interactions in a dense…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-25 Jayam Joshi , Shradha Mishra

We study and characterize a new dynamical regime of underdamped particles in a tilted washboard potential. We find that for small friction in a finite range of forces the particles move essentially nondispersively, that is, coherently, over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Katja Lindenberg , J. M. Sancho , A. M. Lacasta , I. M. Sokolov

Stochastic motion of particles in a highly unstable potential generates a number of diverging trajectories leading to undefined statistical moments of the particle position. This makes experiments challenging and breaks down a standard…

Modelling the transmission dynamics of an infectious disease is a complex task. Not only it is difficult to accurately model the inherent non-stationarity and heterogeneity of transmission, but it is nearly impossible to describe,…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-19 Sanmitra Ghosh , Paul J. Birrell , Daniela De Angelis

We study the behaviour of a Brownian particle in the overdamped regime in the presence of a harmonic potential, assuming its diffusion coefficient to randomly jump between two distinct values. In particular, we characterize the probability…

We show that the idea of mapping between the Newtonian and Brownian diffusivities proposed and tested on a class of particle systems interacting via soft and ultra-soft potentials (IPL, Gaussian core, Hertzian, and effective star-polymer)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Sergey A. Khrapak , Olga S. Vaulina , Gregor E. Morfill

Diffusion in bidisperse Brownian hard-sphere suspensions is studied by Stokesian Dynamics (SD) computer simulations and a semi-analytical theoretical scheme for colloidal short-time dynamics, based on Beenakker and Mazur's method [Physica…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-06 Mu Wang , Marco Heinen , John F. Brady

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

In two prior papers of this series, it was proposed that a wavefunction model of a heavy particle and a collection of light particles might generate ``Brownian-Motion-Like" trajectories as well as diffusive motion (displacement proportional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Leonardo De Carlo , W. David Wick

We study the transport of Brownian particles under a constant driving force and moving in channels that present a varying centerline but have constant aperture width. We investigate two types of channels, {\it solid} channels in which the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-04 X. Wang , G. Drazer

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

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

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

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 scaled Brownian motion (sBm), a random process described by a diffusion equation with explicitly time-dependent diffusion coefficient $D(t) = D_0 t^{\alpha - 1}$ (Batchelor's equation) which, for $\alpha < 1$, is often used for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-17 Felix Thiel , Igor M. Sokolov

We report on the occurrence of multiple hopping and retrapping of a Brownian particle in a tilted washboard potential. The escape dynamic has been studied experimentally by measuring the switching current distributions as a function of…

We propose a new amorphous dust emission model based on the soft-potential (SP) model, applicable in the long-wavelength range from the far-infrared to the microwave. The SP model is widely accepted in material physics to explain amorphous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Masashi Nashimoto

We present a study on the dynamics of a system consisting of a pair of hardcore particles diffusing with different rates. We solved the drift-diffusion equation for this model in the case when one particle, labeled F, drifts and diffuses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-14 S. L. Narasimhan , A. Baumgaertner