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A quantitative relationship between the diffusion coefficient $D$ of a tagged particle in a liquid and the entropy $S$ of that liquid has long been sought, as it would allow entropy to be inferred directly from diffusion measurements and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-25 Nayana Venkatareddy , Mohd Moid , Prabal K. Maiti , Biman Bagchi

Evidence suggests that the transport rate of a passive particle at long timescales is enhanced due to interactions with the surrounding active ones in a size- and composition-dependent manner. Using a system of particles with different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-14 Efe Ilker , Michele Castellana , Jean-François Joanny

The problem of spin diffusion is studied numerically in one-dimensional classical Heisenberg model using a deterministic odd even spin precession dynamics. We demonstrate that spin diffusion in this model, like energy diffusion, is normal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Debarshee Bagchi

Explicit analytical expressions for the drag and diffusion coefficients of a spherical particle attached to the interface between two immiscible fluids are constructed for the case of a small viscosity ratio between the fluid phases. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-20 Aaron Dörr , Steffen Hardt

Diffusive transport is a ubiquitous phenomenon, yet the microscopic origin of diffusion in interacting physical systems remains a challenging question, irrespective of whether quantum effects are dominant or not. In this work, we study…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiaozi Wang , Sourav Nandy , Markus Kraft , Tomaž Prosen , Robin Steinigeweg

The recently established connection between stochastic thermodynamics and fluctuating hydrodynamics is applied to a study of efficiencies in the coupled transport of heat and matter on a small scale. A stochastic model for a mesoscopic cell…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-01 Jean-François Derivaux , Yannick De Decker

The anisotropy of temperature is studied here in a strong two-dimensional shockwave, simulated with conventional molecular dynamics. Several forms of the kinetic temperature are considered, corresponding to different choices for the local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-24 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

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 establish global-in-time existence results for thermodynamically consistent reaction-(cross-)diffusion systems coupled to an equation describing heat transfer. Our main interest is to model species-dependent diffusivities, while at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Julian Fischer , Katharina Hopf , Michael Kniely , Alexander Mielke

The stochastic dynamics of tracers arising from hydrodynamic fluctuations in a driven electrolyte is studied using a self-consistent field-theory framework in all dimensions. A plethora of scaling behaviour that includes two distinct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-12 Ramin Golestanian

The turbulent diffusion of Lagrangian tracer particles has been studied in a flow on the surface of a large tank of water and in computer simulations. The effect of flow compressibility is captured in images of particle fields. The velocity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 John R. Cressman , Walter I. Goldburg , Joerg Schumacher

We study the effective diffusion constant of a Brownian particle linearly coupled to a thermally fluctuating scalar field. We use a path integral method to compute the effective diffusion coefficient perturbatively to lowest order in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 V. Démery , D. S. Dean

In this paper, we numerically study Turing patterns by the Finsler geometry (FG) modeling technique on thermally fluctuating triangular lattices, which are often used for modeling cell membranes or lipid membranes, focusing on the origin of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-08-23 H. Koibuchi , F. Kato , G. Diguet , T. Uchimoto

Under low-Reynolds-number conditions, dynamics of convection and diffusion are usually considered separately because their dominant spatial and temporal scales are different, but cooperative effects of convection and diffusion can cause…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-04 Yuki Koyano , Hiroyuki Kitahata

We report a new phenomenon, called self-recovery, in the process of diffusion in a region with boundary. Suppose that a diffusing quantity is uniformly distributed initially and then gets excited by the change in the boundary values over a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-06-06 Dong Eui Chang , Soo Jeon

Large-scale electrical and thermal currents in ordinary metals are well approximated by effective medium theory: global transport properties are governed by the solution to homogenized coupled diffusion equations. In some metals, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Guillaume Bal , Andrew Lucas , Mitchell Luskin

Heat and energy are conceptually different, but often are assumed to be the same without justification. An effective method for investigating diffusion properties in equilibrium systems is discussed. With this method, we demonstrate that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-03 Shunda Chen , Yong Zhang , Jiao Wang , Hong Zhao

It is shown how Adler's trace dynamics can be applied to stochastic mechanics and other complex classical dynamical systems. Emergent non-commutivity due to the fractal nature of sample trajectories is closely related to the fact that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Davidson

In the last decade Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) has emerged as a powerful tool to study turbid media. In this article we develop the formalism to describe light diffusion in general anisotropic turbid media. We give explicit formulas…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Holger Stark , Tom C. Lubensky

The statistics of a passive tracer immersed in a suspension of active self-propelled particles (swimmers) is derived from first principles by considering a perturbative expansion of the tracer interaction with the microscopic swimmer field.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-31 Adrian Baule