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This paper is concerned with two related types of directed polymers in a random medium. The first one is a d-dimensional Brownian motion living in a random environment which is Brownian in time and homogeneous in space. The second is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-05 Agnese Cadel , Samy Tindel , Frederi Viens

We study the motion of a solid particle immersed in a Newtonian fluid and confined between two parallel elastic membranes possessing shear and bending rigidity. The hydrodynamic mobility depends on the frequency of the particle motion due…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-03 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Achim Guckenberger , Stephan Gekle

A major open problem in biophysics is to understand the highly heterogeneous transport of many structures inside living cells, such as endosomes. We find that mathematically it is described by spatio-temporal heterogeneous fractional…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-20 Nickolay Korabel , Daniel Han , Alessandro Taloni , Gianni Pagnini , Sergei Fedotov , Viki Allan , Thomas Andrew Waigh

Active matter exhibits many intriguing non-equilibrium character, \emph{e.g.}, the active Brownian particles (ABP) without any attractive and aligned interactions can occur the mobility-induced phase transition to form some dense domains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Cheng Yang , Ying Zeng , Shun Xu , Xin Zhou

We report results from the molecular dynamics simulations of a binary colloidal mixture subjected to an external potential barrier along one of the spatial directions at low volume fraction, {\phi} = 0.2. The variations in the asymmetry of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-26 Jalim Singh , Mahammad Mustakim , A. V. Anil Kumar

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

In the last decade, the study of pressure in active matter has attracted growing attention due to its fundamental relevance to nonequilibrium statistical physics. Active matter systems are composed of particles that consume energy to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Guo Yu , Ruiyao Li , Fukang Li , Jiayu Zhang , Xiyue Li , Zequ Chen , Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao

The diffusive motion of overdamped Brownian particles in tilted piecewise linear pontentials is considered. It is shown that the enhancement of diffusion coefficient by an external static force is quite sensitive to the symmetry of periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Els Heinsalu , Risto Tammelo , Teet Ord

Brownian Dynamics algorithms are widely used for simulating soft-matter and biochemical systems. In recent times, their application has been extended to the simulation of coarse-grained models of cellular networks in simple organisms. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Marco J. Morelli , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

We analyze quantal Brownian motion in $d$ dimensions using the unified model for diffusion localization and dissipation, and Feynman-Vernon formalism. At high temperatures the propagator possess a Markovian property and we can write down an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Doron Cohen

Over a century ago, Einstein formulated a precise mathematical model for describing Brownian motion. While this model adequately explains the diffusion of micron-sized particles in fluids, its limitations become apparent when applied to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-22 Harish Srinivasan , V. K. Sharma , S. Mitra

We consider the active Brownian particle (ABP) model for a two-dimensional microswimmer with fixed speed, whose direction of swimming changes according to a Brownian process. The probability density for the swimmer evolves according to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-01 Hongfei Chen , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We study the diffusive dynamics of a Brownian particle in proximity of a flat surface under non-equilibrium conditions, which are created by an anisotropic thermal environment with different temperatures being active along distinct spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stefano Bo , Ralf Eichhorn

A novel approach to account for hard-body interactions in (overdamped) Brownian dynamics simulations is proposed for systems with non-vanishing force fields. The scheme exploits the analytically known transition probability for a Brownian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 Hans Behringer , Ralf Eichhorn

Brownian particles suspended in disordered crowded environments often exhibit non-Gaussian normal diffusion (NGND), whereby their displacements grow with mean square proportional to the observation time and non-Gaussian statistics. Their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-19 Qingqing Yin , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni , Shubhadip Nayak , Pulak Ghosh

Laboratory experiments were conducted to study particle migration and flow properties of non- Brownian, non-colloidal suspensions ranging from 10% to 40% particle volume fraction in a pressure-driven flow over and through a porous structure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-01 Parisa Mirbod , Nina C. Shapley

Particles kicked by external forces to produce mobility distinct from thermal diffusion are an iconic feature of the active matter problem. Here, we map this onto a minimal model for experiment and theory covering the wide time and length…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-21 Jin Tae Park , Govind Paneru , Chulan Kwon , Steve Granick , Hyuk Kyu Pak

The motion of a quantum particle hopping on a simple cubic lattice under the influence of thermal noise and of a static random potential is expected to be diffusive, i.e., the particle is expected to exhibit `quantum Brownian motion', no…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Jürg Fröhlich , Jeffrey Schenker

We present a mode-coupling theory (MCT) for the high-density dynamics of two-dimensional spherical active Brownian particles (ABP). The theory is based on the integration-through-transients (ITT) formalism and hence provides a starting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-20 Alexander Liluashvili , Jonathan Onody , Thomas Voigtmann

We consider one-dimensional branching Brownian motion in spatially random branching environment (BBMRE) and show that for almost every realisation of the environment, the distributions of the maximal particle of the BBMRE re-centred around…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Jiří Černý , Alexander Drewitz , Pascal Oswald