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In this study, inspired by the work of K. Nakazato and K. Kitahara [Prog. Theor. Phys. 64, 2261 (1980)], we consider the theoretical problem of tracer particle diffusion in an environment of diffusing hardcore interacting crowder particles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-22 Simon Pigeon , Karl Fogelmark , Bo Söderberg , Gautam Mukhopadhyay , Tobias Ambjörnsson

The transport of an infinitely thin, hard rod in a random, dense array of point obstacles is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Our model mimics the sterically hindered dynamics in dense needle liquids. The center-of-mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-22 Felix Höfling , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

The overdamped dynamics of a charged particle driven by an uniform electric field through a random sequence of scatterers in one dimension is investigated. Analytic expressions of the mean velocity and of the velocity power spectrum are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kunz , R. Livi , A. Suto

A particle with internal unobserved states diffusing in a force field will generally display effective advection-diffusion. The drift velocity is proportional to the mobility averaged over the internal states, or effective mobility, while…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-13 Erik Aurell , Stefano Bo

The Markovian diffusion theory in the phase space is generalized within the framework of the general theory of relativity. The introduction of moving orthonormal frame vectors both for the position as well the velocity space enables to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Joachim Herrmann

We introduce two discrete models of a collection of colliding particles with stored momentum and study the asymptotic growth of the mean-square displacement of an active particle. We prove that the models are superdiffusive in one dimension…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Edward Crane , Sean Ledger , Balint Toth

The aforementioned celebrated model, though a breakthrough in Stochastic processes and a great step toward the construction of the Brownian motion leads to a paradox: infinite propagation speed and violation of the 2nd law of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibragimov , Zeev Sobol

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

The influence of crowding on the diffusion of tagged particles in a dense medium is investigated in the framework of a mean-field model, derived in the continuum limit from a microscopic stochastic process with exclusion. The probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Amos Maritan , Francesco Piazza

The theory of diffusive acceleration of energetic particles at shock fronts assumes charged particles undergo spatial diffusion in a uniform magnetic field. If, however, the magnetic field is not uniform, but has a stochastic or braided…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy , Y. A. Gallant

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

The problem of front propagation in flowing media is addressed for laminar velocity fields in two dimensions. Three representative cases are discussed: stationary cellular flow, stationary shear flow, and percolating flow. Production terms…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Abel , A. Celani , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

We present analytical results for the biased diffusion of particles moving under a constant force in a randomly layered medium. The influence of this medium on the particle dynamics is modeled by a piecewise constant random force. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-10 S. I. Denisov , H. Kantz

The paper addresses the single-file diffusion in the presence of an absorbing boundary. The emphasis is on an interplay between the hard-core interparticle interaction and the absorption process. The resulting dynamics exhibits several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-26 Artem Ryabov , Petr Chvosta

Long DNA molecules can be mapped by cutting them with restriction enzymes inside a narrow channel. Once cut, the individual fragments thus produced move away from each other due to diffusion and entropic effects. We investigate how long it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-11 Hanyang. Wang , Gary W Slater

Ray flow methods provide efficient tools for modelling wave energy transport in complex systems at high-frequencies. We compare two Petrov-Galerkin discretizations of a phase-space boundary integral model for stationary wave energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 David J. Chappell , Martin Richter , Gregor Tanner

We consider a continuous random walk model for describing normal as well as anomalous diffusion of particles subjected to an external force when these particles diffuse in a uniformly expanding (or contracting) medium. A general equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-17 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

We consider the evolution of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice in any dimension and subject to a potential consisting of a periodic part and a random part that fluctuates stochastically in time. If the random potential evolves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Jeffrey Schenker , F. Zak Tilocco , Shiwen Zhang

We break the mold in flow-based generative modeling by proposing a new model based on the damped wave equation, also known as telegrapher's equation. Similar to the diffusion equation and Brownian motion, there is a Feynman-Kac type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Richard Duong , Jannis Chemseddine , Peter K. Friz , Gabriele Steidl

We model two time and space scales discrete observations by using a unique continuous diffusion process with time dependent coefficient. We define new parameters for the large scale model as functions of the small scale distribution…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-09-09 V. Calian , G. Stefansson , L. P. Folkow , A. S. Blix