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Spontaneous persistent motions driven by active processes play a central role to maintain the living cells far from equilibrium. In the majority of the research works, the steady state dynamics of an active system has been described in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Subhasish Chaki , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

We study dynamics of a probe particle, which performs biased diffusive motion in a one-dimensional adsorbed monolayer of mobile hard-core particles undergoing continuous exchanges with a vapor phase. In terms of a mean-field-type approach,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 O. Benichou , A. M. Cazabat , A. Lemarchand , M. Moreau , G. Oshanin

Experimental results for passive tracer dispersion in the turbulent surface layer under convective conditions are presented. In this case, the dispersion of tracer particles is determined by the interplay of two mechanisms: buoyancy and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-26 Alex Skvortsov , Milan Jamriska , Timothy C DuBois

In a plasma of multiple ion species, thermodynamic forces such as pressure and temperature gradients can drive ion species separation via inter-species diffusion. Unlike its neutral mix counterpart, plasma thermo-diffusion is found…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Grigory Kagan , Xian-Zhu Tang

We investigate the conditions under which a moving condensate may exist in a driven mass transport system. Our paradigm is a minimal mass transport model in which $n-1$ particles move simultaneously from a site containing $n>1$ particles to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-26 Justin Whitehouse , André Costa , Richard A Blythe , Martin R Evans

Here the authors provide a generalized Chudley-Elliott expression for activated atom surface diffusion which takes into account the coupling between both low-frequency vibrational motion (namely, the frustrated translational modes) and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Martinez-Casado , J. L. Vega , A. S. Sanz , S. Miret-Artes

We study the Brownian motion of an assembly of mobile inclusions embedded in a fluid membrane. The motion includes the dispersal of the assembly, accompanied by the diffusion of its center of mass. Usually, the former process is much faster…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Benjamin Sorkin , Haim Diamant

Since the dawn of the space age, observations of energetic particles in planetary radiation belts have been interpreted within a diffusive transport framework, even though the processes that populate and deplete these belts produce highly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Adnane Osmane , Xin An , Anton Artemyev , Oliver Allanson , Jay Albert , Miroslav Hanzelka

We study experimentally and numerically the motion of a self-phoretic active particle in two-dimensional (2D) loosely-packed colloidal crystals at fluid interfaces. Two scenarios emerge depending on the interaction between the active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-04 Kilian Dietrich , Ivo Buttinoni , Giovanni Volpe , Lucio Isa

Using numerical simulations, we examine the dynamics of active matter run-and-tumble disks moving in a disordered array of obstacles. As a function of increasing active disk density and activity, we find a transition from a completely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-13 C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

The process referred to as "semi-convection" in astrophysics and "double-diffusive convection in the diffusive regime" in Earth and planetary sciences, occurs in stellar and planetary interiors in regions which are stable according to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Giovanni M. Mirouh , Pascale Garaud , Stephan Stellmach , Adrienne L. Traxler , Toby S. Wood

We study the dynamics of an athermal inertial run-and-tumble particle moving in a shear-thickening medium in $d=1$. The viscosity of the medium is represented by a nonlinear function $f(v)\sim\tan(v)$, while a symmetric dichotomous noise of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-06 Subhanker Howlader , Sayantan Mondal , Prasenjit Das

Volatiles, especially CO, are important gas tracers of protoplanetary disks (PPDs). Freeze-out and sublimation processes determine their division between gas and solid phases, which affects both which disk regions can be traced by which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Rui Xu , Xue-Ning Bai , Karin Oberg

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of active matter using a two-dimensional active Brownian particles model. In these systems, self-propelled particles undergo motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), spontaneously segregating into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Toranosuke Umemura , Issei Sakai , Takuma Akimoto

Generative diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in producing high-quality images. However, these models typically operate in continuous intensity spaces, diffusing independently across pixels and color channels. As a result,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Javier E. Santos , Agnese Marcato , Roman Colman , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

We present a position Langevin equation for overdamped particle motion on rough two-dimensional surfaces. A Brownian Dynamics algorithm is suggested to evolve this equation numerically, allowing for the prediction of effective (projected)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Naji , Frank L. H. Brown

We study the steady state of a stochastic particle system on a two-dimensional lattice, with particle influx, diffusion and desorption, and the formation of a dimer when particles meet. Surface processes are thermally activated, with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Wolff , I. Lohmar , J. Krug , O. Biham

Atoms at liquid metal surfaces are known to form layers parallel to the surface. We analyze the two-dimensional arrangement of atoms within such layers at the surface of liquid sodium, using ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Brent Walker , Nicola Marzari , Carla Molteni

We consider the diffusion-advection problem in two simple cellular flow models (often invoked as examples for subdiffusive tracer's motion) and concentrate on the intermediate time range, in which the tracer's motion indeed may show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-28 Patrick Pöschke , Igor M. Sokolov , Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy , Michael A. Zaks

The diffusion and low vibrational motions of adsorbates on surfaces can be well described by a purely stochastic model, the so-called interacting single adsorbate model, for low-moderate coverages (\theta \lesssim 0.12). Within this model,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-16 R. Martinez-Casado , A. S. Sanz , G. Rojas-Lorenzo , S. Miret-Artes