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The molecular motion in heterogeneous media displays anomalous diffusion by the mean-squared displacement $\langle X^2(t) \rangle = 2 D t^\alpha$. Motivated by experiments reporting populations of the anomalous diffusion parameters $\alpha$…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yann Lanoiselée , Gianni Pagnini , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

We present dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements of soft polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) and polyacrylamide(PA) polymer gels prepared with trapped bodies (latex spheres or maghemite nanoparticles). We show that the anomalous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-10 Alvaro V. N. C. Teixeira , Erik Geissler , Pedro Licinio

In a frame of quasi-crystal approximation the dispersion equations are obtained for the wave vector of a coherent electromagnetic wave propagating in a media which contains a random set of parallel dielectric cylinders with possible…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nadejda L. Cherkas

Magnetic resonance imaging technique known as DWI (diffusion-weighted imaging) allows measurement of water diffusivity on a pixel basis for evaluating pathology throughout the body and is now routinely incorporated into many body MRI…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Andrea Barucci , Roberto Carpi , Marco Esposito , Maristella Olmastroni , Giovanna Zatelli

The fractional diffusion-wave equation (FDWE) is a recent generalization of diffusion and wave equations via time and space fractional derivatives. The equation underlies Levy random walk and fractional Brownian motion and is foremost…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Chen , S. Holm

Density waves are characteristic for fluidized beds and affect measurements on liquid-like dynamics in fluidized granular media. Here, the intensity autocorrelation function as obtainable with diffusing-wave spectroscopy is derived in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-12 Philip Born , Steffen Reinhold , Matthias Sperl

This article is a tutorial on the practical implementation of a method of measurement of minute deformations based on multiple scattering. This technic has been recently developed and has proven to give new insights on the spatial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-24 Axelle Amon , Alesya Mikhailovskaya , Jérôme Crassous

The diffusing-diffusivity mechanism proposed by Chubynsky and Slater [PRL 113, 098302, 2014] predicts that, in environments where the diffusivity changes gradually, the displacement distribution becomes non-Gaussian, even though the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Mpumelelo Matse , John Bechhoefer

This paper investigates the spectral structure, numerical dispersion, and observability of fully discrete approximations of the one-dimensional wave equation by $P^k$ (local) discontinuous Galerkin methods. Characterizing the coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Yunzhang Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Enrique Zuazua

The space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to observe lensed GW events, offering new opportunities for cosmology and fundamental physics.Across the millihertz band, lensing effects transition from the wave-optics regime…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Tianlong Wang , Tianyu Zhao , Minghui Du , Ziren Luo , Peng Dong , Peng Xu

A generalized dispersion equation is derived featuring coupled mode theory, parity-time symmetry, and leaky wave antennas of arbitrary periodic modulation. It can be specialized to each of these cases individually or can describe a…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-07 Afshin Abbaszadeh , Jordan Budhu

A full analysis of all regimes for optical dispersive shock wave (DSW) propagation in nematic liquid crystals is undertaken. These dispersive shock waves are generated from step initial conditions for the optical field and are resonant in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-22 Saleh Baqer , Noel F. Smyth

An appealing requirement from the well-known diffraction tomography (DT) exists for success reconstruction from few-view and limited-angle data. Inspired by the well-known compressive sensing (CS), the accurate super-resolution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Lianlin Li , Wenji Zhang , Fang Li

A tracer particle is called anomalously diffusive if its mean squared displacement grows approximately as $\sigma^2 t^{\alpha}$ as a function of time $t$ for some constant $\sigma^2$, where the diffusion exponent satisfies $\alpha \neq 1$.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-17 Kui Zhang , Katelyn P. R. Crizer , Mark H. Schoenfisch , David B. Hill , Gustavo Didier

Wang et al. [PNAS 106 (2009) 15160] have found that in several systems the linear time dependence of the mean-square displacement (MSD) of diffusing colloidal particles, typical of normal diffusion, is accompanied by a non-Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mykyta V. Chubynsky , Gary W. Slater

Simulations are made of a probe particle diffusing through a complex fluid. Probe particle motions are described by the Mori-Zwanzig equation and Mori's orthogonal hierarchy of random forces scheme, subject to the approximation that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-20 George D. J. Phillies

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a glassy polymer widely used in biomedical engineering, namely in microfluidics applications. However, PDMS is known to interact with hydrophobic chemicals. This interaction is exacerbated at the scale of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-18 Nathaniel G. Hermann , Dmitry A. Markov , M. Shane Hutson

This work presents a generalized physical interpretation of unconventional dispersion asymmetries associated moving elastic solids. By shifting the notion from systems with time-variant material fields to physically traveling materials, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 M. A. Attarzadeh , M. Nouh

We describe a dynamic light scattering setup that uses diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) to investigate the dynamics in sand grains subjected to periodic vertical shaking by a loudspeaker. Along with the setup that is used in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Thomas Blochowicz , Emina Ismajli , Jan Philipp Gabriel

Motivated by simulations of ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery, this work presents the numerical analysis of a mathematical model that captures the influence of ultrasound waves on the diffusivity of the drug. The system under study consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Femke de Wit , Vanja Nikolić