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We study the transport properties of a system of active particles moving at constant speed in an heterogeneous two-dimensional space. The spatial heterogeneity is modeled by a random distribution of obstacles, which the active particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani

We propose a stochastic model for intracellular transport processes associated with the activity of molecular motors. This out-of-equilibrium model, based on a generalized Langevin equation, considers a particle immersed in a viscoelastic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 L. Bruno , M. A. Despósito

Measurements of protein motion in living cells and membranes consistently report transient anomalous diffusion (subdiffusion) which converges back to a Brownian motion with reduced diffusion coefficient at long times, after the anomalous…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Hédi Soula , Bertrand Caré , Guillaume Beslon , Hugues Berry

We experimentally, numerically and analytically explore the diffusive transport of active colloidal particles with sensory delay, navigating motility landscapes in which the self-propulsion speed depends on space. We show how the transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Adrià Garcés , Ueli Töpfer , Lucio Isa , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Many transport processes in nature exhibit anomalous diffusive properties with non-trivial scaling of the mean square displacement, e.g., diffusion of cells or of biomolecules inside the cell nucleus, where typically a crossover between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Andrea Cairoli , Adrian Baule

We study far from equilibrium transport of a periodically driven inertial Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential. As detected recently for a SQUID ratchet dynamics (Spiechowicz J. & Luczka J. Phys. Rev. E 91, 062104 (2015)), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

The stochastic trajectories of molecules in living cells, as well as the dynamics in many other complex systems, often exhibit memory in their path over long periods of time. In addition, these systems can show dynamic heterogeneities due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-10 Michał Balcerek , Agnieszka Wyłomańska , Krzysztof Burnecki , Ralf Metzler , Diego Krapf

We develop an analytical framework and numerical approach to obtain the coefficient of self-diffusivity for the transport of a rarefied gas in channels in the limit of large Knudsen number. This framework provides a method for determining…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Timothy Chumley , Renato Feres , Luis Alberto Garcia German

Based on a coarse-grained model, we carry out molecular dynamics simulations to analyze the diffusion of a small tracer particle inside a cylindrical channel whose inner wall is covered with randomly grafted short polymeric chains. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-20 Rajarshi Chakrabarti , Stefan Kesselheim , Peter Kosovan , Christian Holm

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

We present a framework for systems in which diffusion-advection transport of a tracer substance in a mobile zone is interrupted by trapping in an immobile zone. Our model unifies different model approaches based on distributed-order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-05 T. J. Doerries , A. V. Chechkin , R. Schumer , R. Metzler

This paper introduces the use of statistical distributions based on transport differential equations for clear distinction of transport modes within transient kinetic experiments. More specifically,novel techniques are developed for the…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-08 M. Ross Kunz , Debtanu Maiti , Gregory Yablonsky , Rebecca Fushimi

In a recent paper, Michael J. Saxton proposes to interpret as anomalous diffusion the occurrence of apparent transient sub-diffusive regimes in mean-squared displacements (MSD) plots, calculated from experimental trajectories of molecules…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Nicolas Destainville , Aude Sauliere , Laurence Salome

How many times a diffusing molecule can permeate across a membrane or be adsorbed on a substrate? We employ the encounter-based approach to find the statistics of adsorption or permeation events for molecular diffusion in a general…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Denis S. Grebenkov

We investigate the dynamics of a single tracer particle performing Brownian motion in a two-dimensional course of randomly distributed hard obstacles. At a certain critical obstacle density, the motion of the tracer becomes anomalous over…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-19 Teresa Bauer , Felix Höfling , Tobias Munk , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

We study a transport of impurity particles on a comb structure in the presence of advection. The main body concentration and asymptotic concentration distributions are obtained. Seven different transport regimes occur on the comb structure…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-04-14 Olga A. Dvoretskaya , Peter S. Kondratenko

Diffusion is the result of repeated random scattering. It governs a wide range of phenomena from Brownian motion, to heat flow through window panes, neutron flux in fuel rods, dispersion of light in human tissue, and electronic conduction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Zhou Shi , Azriel Z. Genack

Particles diffusing near interfaces face anisotropic resistance to motion due to hydrodynamic interactions. While this has been extensively studied near \textit{hard} interfaces since the works of Lorentz and Brenner, our understanding of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-03 Ali Mohammadi , Zhen Li , Sophie Marbach , Micheline Abbas

Diffusive transport is among the most common phenomena in nature [1]. However, as predicted by Anderson [2], diffusion may break down due to interference. This transition from diffusive transport to localization of waves should occur for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Störzer , Peter Gross , Christof M. Aegerter , Georg Maret

Established theoretical studies of diffusion in rugged (or rough) potential surfaces have largely focused on quenched energy landscapes. Here we study diffusion on a rugged energy landscape in the presence of dynamic disorder, a situation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-28 Biman Bagchi