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In this work we investigate the interplay between coherent and incoherent charge transport in cytosine-guanine (GC) rich DNA molecules. Our objective is to introduce physically grounded approach to dephasing in large molecules and to…

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Simulating percolation and critical phenomena of labelled species inside films composed of single-component linear homogeneous macromolecules using molecular Monte Carlo method in 3 dimensions, we study dependence of these conducting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-05 Yuki Norizoe , Hiroshi Morita

Motor-driven cytoskeletal remodeling in cellular systems can often be accompanied by a diffusive-like effect at local scales, but distinguishing the contributions of the ordering process, such as active contraction of a network, from this…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Soichi Hirokawa , Heun Jin Lee , Rachel A Banks , Ana I Duarte , Bibi Najma , Matt Thomson , Rob Phillips

Migrating cells exhibit various motility patterns, resulting from different migration mechanisms, cell properties, or cell-environment interactions. The complexity of cell dynamics is reflected, e.g., in the diversity of the observed forms…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 M. Reza Shaebani , Matthieu Piel , Franziska Lautenschläger

Particles with ligand-receptor contacts bind and unbind fluctuating "legs" to surfaces, whose fluctuations cause the particle to diffuse. Quantifying the diffusion of such "nanoscale caterpillars" is a challenge, since binding events often…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-21 Sophie Marbach , Jeana Aojie Zheng , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

A vertically shaken granular medium hosts a blade rotating around a fixed vertical axis, which acts as a mesorheological probe. At high densities, independently from the shaking intensity, the blade's dynamics show strong caging effects,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Camille Scalliet , Andrea Gnoli , Andrea Puglisi , Angelo Vulpiani

Recent efforts in neuroscience research seek to obtain detailed anatomical neuronal wiring maps as well as information on how neurons in these networks engage in dynamic activities. Although the entire connectivity map of the nervous system…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-06-09 Tina Schrödel , Robert Prevedel , Karin Aumayr , Manuel Zimmer , Alipasha Vaziri

Movements of molecular motors on cytoskeletal filaments are described by directed walks on a line. Detachment from this line is allowed to occur with a small probability. Motion in the surrounding fluid is described by symmetric random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Stefan Klumpp , Reinhard Lipowsky

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

Mesh-like structures, such as mucus gel or cytoskeleton networks, are ubiquitous in biological systems. These intricate structures are composed of cross-linked, semi-flexible bio-filaments, crucial to numerous biological processes. In many…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-10 Yeongjin Kim , Won Kyu Kim , Jae-Hyung Jeon

Understanding principles of neurolocomotion requires the synthesis of neural activity, sensory feedback, and biomechanics. The nematode \textit{C. elegans} is an ideal model organism for studying locomotion in an integrated neuromechanical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-08 Carter L. Johnson , Timothy J. Lewis , Robert D. Guy

Microorganisms often encounter strong confinement and complex hydrodynamic flows while navigating their habitats. Combining finite-element methods and stochastic simulations, we study the interplay of active transport and heterogeneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-05 Pallabi Das , Mirko Residori , Axel Voigt , Suvendu Mandal , Christina Kurzthaler

Intracellular cargo transport can arise from passive diffusion, active motor-driven transport along cytoskeletal filament networks, and passive advection by fluid flows entrained by such motor/cargo motion. Active and advective transport…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 P. Khuc Trong , J. Guck , R. E. Goldstein

Charge transport in disordered two-dimensional (2D) systems showcases a myriad of unique phenomenologies that highlight different aspects of the underlying quantum dynamics. Electrons in such systems undergo a crossover from ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 H. P. Veiga , S. M. João , J. M. Alendouro Pinho , J. P. Santos Pires , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes

We couple two-dimensional hydrodynamics to detailed one-dimensional multigroup flux-limited diffusion neutrino transport to investigate prompt convection in core collapse supernovae. Our initial conditions, time-dependent boundary…

We survey recent results of normal and anomalous diffusion of two types of random motions with long memory in ${\Bbb R}^d$ or ${\Bbb Z}^d$. The first class consists of random walks on ${\Bbb Z}^d$ in divergence-free random drift field,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Bálint Tóth

The dynamics of single cell migration on flat surfaces is usually modeled by a Langevin-like problem consisting of ballistic motion for short periods and random walk. for long periods. Conversely, recent studies have revealed a previously…

The photoluminescence in amorphous semiconductors decays according to power law $t^{-delta}$ at long times. The photoluminescence is controlled by dispersive transport of electrons. The latter is usually characterized by the power $alpha$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuhiko Seki , Mariusz Wojcik , M. Tachiya

Single particle tracking of mRNA molecules and lipid granules in living cells shows that the time averaged mean squared displacement $\overline{\delta^2}$ of individual particles remains a random variable while indicating that the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. He , S. Burov , R. Metzler , E. Barkai

The diffusive transport of particles in anisotropic media is a fundamental phenomenon in computational, medical and biological disciplines. While deterministic models (partial differential equations) of such processes are well established,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Luke P. Filippini , Adrianne L. Jenner , Elliot J. Carr