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We study a two-dimensional diffusive motion of a tracer particle in restricted, crowded anisotropic geometries. The underlying medium is the same as in our previous work [J. Chem. Phys. 140, 044706 (2014)] in which standard, gaussian…

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In this work, we study in the framework of the so-called driven tight-binding chain (TBC) the issue of quantum unitary dynamics interspersed at random times with stochastic resets mimicking non-unitary evolution due to interactions with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Sushanta Dattagupta , Debraj Das , Shamik Gupta

Transport of tracer particles through mesh-like environments such as biological hydrogels and polymer matrices is ubiquitous in nature. These tracers could be passive, such as colloids or active (self-propelled), such as synthetic…

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We propose a generalization of the stochastic resetting mechanism for a Brownian particle diffusing in a one-dimensional periodic potential: randomly in time, the particle gets reset at the bottom of the potential well it was in. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-18 Pulak K. Ghosh , Shubhadip Nayak , Jianli Liu , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni

We investigate the nonlocal behavior of passive tracer dispersion with random stopping at various sites in fluids. This kind of dispersion processes is modeled by an integral partial differential equation, i.e., an advection-diffusion…

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At long times residual couplings to the environment become relevant even in the most isolated experiments, creating a crucial difficulty for the study of fundamental aspects of many-body dynamics. A particular example is many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-12-18 Evert P. L. van Nieuwenburg , Jorge Yago Malo , Andrew J. Daley , Mark H. Fischer

Collision models provide a simple and versatile setting to capture the dynamics of open quantum systems. The standard approach to thermalisition in this setting involves an environment of independent and identically-prepared thermal qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ronan McElvogue , Andrew K. Mitchell , Gabriel T. Landi , Steve Campbell

The dynamics of a tracer molecule near a fluid membrane is investigated, with particular emphasis given to the interplay between the instantaneous position of the particle and membrane fluctuations. It is found that hydrodynamic…

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We introduce stochastic models for the transport of heat in systems described by local collisional dynamics. The dynamics consists of tracer particles moving through an array of hot scatterers describing the effect of heat baths at fixed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raphael Lefevere , Lorenzo Zambotti

Stochastic point processes with refractoriness appear frequently in the quantitative analysis of physical and biological systems, such as the generation of action potentials by nerve cells, the release and reuptake of vesicles at a synapse,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Moritz Deger , Moritz Helias , Stefano Cardanobile , Fatihcan M. Atay , Stefan Rotter

We study the dynamics of a Brownian motion with a diffusion coefficient which evolves stochastically. We first study this process in arbitrary dimensions and find the scaling form and the corresponding scaling function of the position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-30 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

The diffusion of active microscopic organisms in complex environments plays an important role in a wide range of biological phenomena from cell colony growth to single organism transport. Here, we investigate theoretically and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Juan L. Aragones , Shahrzad Yazdi , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Stochastic thermodynamics provides a useful set of tools to analyze and constrain the behavior of far from equilibrium systems. In this paper, we report an application of ideas from stochastic thermodynamics to the problem of membrane…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-25 Michael Nguyen , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Brownian motion is widely used as a paradigmatic model of diffusion in equilibrium media throughout the physical, chemical, and biological sciences. However, many real world systems, particularly biological ones, are intrinsically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-04 Kiyoshi Kanazawa , Tomohiko G. Sano , Andrea Cairoli , Adrian Baule

In addition to enabling movement towards environments with favourable living conditions, swimming by microorganisms has also been linked to enhanced mixing and improved nutrient uptake by their populations. Experimental studies have shown…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-07 Blaise Delmotte , Eric E Keaveny , Eric Climent , Franck Plouraboué

We study the non-equilibrium steady states and first passage properties of a Brownian particle with position $X$ subject to an external confining potential of the form $V(X)=\mu|X|$, and that is switched on and off stochastically. Applying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar , Grégory Schehr

The non-equilibrium steady states emerging from stochastic resetting to a distribution is studied. We show that for a range of processes, the steady-state moments can be expressed as a linear combination of the moments of the distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-10 Kristian Stølevik Olsen

The standard setup for single-file diffusion is diffusing particles in one dimension which cannot overtake each other, where the dynamics of a tracer (tagged) particle is of main interest. In this article we generalise this system and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Robin Forsling , Lloyd Sanders , Tobias Ambjörnsson , Ludvig Lizana

Relaxation dynamics of complex many-body quantum systems brought out of equilibrium and subsequently trapped into metastable states is a very active field of research from both the theoretical and experimental point of view with…

Restarting a stochastic search process can accelerate its completion by providing an opportunity to take a more favorable path with each reset. This strategy, known as stochastic resetting, is well studied in random processes. Here, we…

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