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We study a large class of 1D reaction diffusion models with quenched disorder using a real space renormalization group method (RSRG) which yields exact results at large time. Particles (e.g. of several species) undergo diffusion with random…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Pierre Le Doussal , Cecile Monthus

We study a model for a protein searching for a target, using facilitated diffusion, on a DNA molecule confined in a finite volume. The model includes three distinct pathways for facilitated diffusion: (a) sliding - in which the protein…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2009-01-28 Michael Sheinman , Yariv Kafri

We study by simulation the effect of the diffusive motion of repressor molecules on the noise in mRNA and protein levels in the case of a repressed gene. We find that spatial fluctuations due to diffusion can drastically enhance the noise…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jeroen S. van Zon , Marco J. Morelli , Sorin Tanase-Nicola , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

In this paper a lattice model for diffusional transport of particles in the interphase cell nucleus is proposed. Dense networks of chromatin fibers are created by three different methods: randomly distributed, non-interconnected obstacles,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Annika Wedemeier , Holger Merlitz , Chen-Xu Wu , Jörg Langowski

We study the non-Arrhenius behavior of surface diffusion near the second-order phase transition boundary of an adsorbate layer. In contrast to expectations based on macroscopic thermodynamic effects, we show that this behavior can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Vattulainen , J. Merikoski , T. Ala-Nissila , S. C. Ying

We study here the random diffusion model. This is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field $\phi$ driven by diffusive dynamics. The interesting feature of the dynamics is that the {\it bare} diffusion coefficient $D$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gene F. Mazenko

We consider the diffusive motion of a localized knot along a linear polymer chain. In particular, we derive the mean diffusion time of the knot before it escapes from the chain once it gets close to one of the chain ends. Self-reptation of…

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The structure of DNA Binding Proteins enables a strong interaction with their specific target site on DNA. However, recent single molecule experiment reported that proteins can diffuse on DNA. This suggests that the interactions between…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Vincent Dahirel , Fabien Paillusson , Marie Jardat , Maria Barbi , Jean-Marc Victor

The diffusion model is used to calculate the time-averaged flow of particles in stochastic media and the propagation of waves averaged over ensembles of disordered static configurations. For classical waves exciting static disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-11 Azriel Z. Genack , Yiming Huang , Asher Maor , Zhou Shi

We considered diffusion-driven processes on small-world networks with distance-dependent random links. The study of diffusion on such networks is motivated by transport on randomly folded polymer chains, synchronization problems in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-05 Balazs Kozma , Matthew B. Hastings , G. Korniss

We consider an aggregation-diffusion equation modelling particle interaction with non-linear diffusion and non-local attractive interaction using a homogeneous kernel (singular and non-singular) leading to variants of the Keller-Segel model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Vincent Calvez , Jose Antonio Carrillo , Franca Hoffmann

We consider the role of network geometry in two types of diffusion processes: transport of constant-density information packets with queuing on nodes, and constant voltage-driven tunneling of electrons. The underlying network is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-05 Milovan Suvakov , Bosiljka Tadic

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

We study statistical properties of DNA chains of thirteen microbial complete genomes. We find that the power spectrum of several of the sequences studied flattens off in the low frequency limit. This implies that the correlation length in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maria de Sousa Vieira

DNA strand displacement, where a single-stranded nucleic acid invades a DNA duplex, is pervasive in genomic processes and DNA engineering applications. The kinetics of strand displacement have been studied in bulk; however, the kinetics of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 D. W. Bo Broadwater, , Alexander W. Cook , Harold D. Kim

We investigate the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a washboard potential with space dependent friction coefficient. Analytical expressions have been obtained for current and diffusion coefficient. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar

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

Transport through generalized trees is considered. Trees contain the simple nodes and supernodes, either well-structured regular subgraphs or those with many triangles. We observe a superdiffusion for the highly connected nodes while it is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Volchenkov , Ph. Blanchard

There is now a certain consensus that Transcription Factors (TFs) reach their target sites, where they regulate gene transcription, via a mechanism dubbed facilitated diffusion (FD). In FD, the TF cycles between events of 3D-diffusion in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-18 Carlo Guardiani , Massimo Cencini , Fabio Cecconi