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The nature of diffusion is usually studied for particles or time-evolving systems. Similar in principle, such studies can be conducted by tracking how a given function of observable properties evolves over time-akin to the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 M. Süzen

We show that anomalous diffusion arises in two different models for the motion of randomly forced and weakly damped particles: one is a generalisation of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with a random force which depends on position as well…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-05 Vlad Bezuglyy , Michael Wilkinson , Bernhard Mehlig

The anomalous (i.e. non-Gaussian) dynamics of particles subject to a deterministic acceleration and a series of 'random kicks' is studied. Based on an extension of the concept of continuous time random walks to position-velocity space, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Friedrich , F. Jenko , A. Baule , S. Eule

Active (i.e., self-propelled or swimming) particles moving through an isotropic fluid exhibit conventional diffusive behavior. We report anomalous diffusion of an active particle moving in an anisotropic, nematic background. Whilst the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-22 John Toner , Hartmut Löwen , Henricus H. Wensink

The molecular motion in heterogeneous media displays anomalous diffusion by the mean-squared displacement $\langle X^2(t) \rangle = 2 D t^\alpha$. Motivated by experiments reporting populations of the anomalous diffusion parameters $\alpha$…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yann Lanoiselée , Gianni Pagnini , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

The diffusion of colloids inside an active system-e.g. within a living cell or the dynamics of active particles itself (e.g. self-propelled particles) can be modeled through overdamped Langevin equation which contains an additional noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-06 Koushik Goswami , K. L. Sebastian

The diffusion of chiral active Brownian particles in three-dimensional space is studied analytically, by consideration of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of finding a particle at position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Francisco J. Sevilla

Anomalous diffusion, manifest as a nonlinear temporal evolution of the position mean square displacement, and/or non-Gaussian features of the position statistics, is prevalent in biological transport processes. Likewise, collective behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-01 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

Solitons, which describe the propagation of concentrated beams of light through nonlinear media, can exhibit a variety of behaviors as a result of the intrinsic dissipation, diffraction, and the nonlinear effects. One of these phenomena,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-08-01 Jaime Cisternas , Tony Albers , Günter Radons

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

When a particle diffuses in a medium with spatially dependent friction coefficient $\alpha(r)$ at constant temperature $T$, it drifts toward the low friction end of the system even in the absence of any real physical force $f$. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Here, an approach in terms of shot noise is proposed to study and characterize surface diffusion and low vibrational motion when having interacting adsorbates on surfaces. In what we call statistical limit, that is, at long times and high…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Martinez-Casado , J. L. Vega , A. S. Sanz , S. Miret-Artes

Chaotic deterministic dynamics of a particle can give rise to diffusive Brownian motion. In this paper, we compute analytically the diffusion coefficient for a particular two-dimensional stochastic layer induced by the kicked Harper map.…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 P. Leboeuf

The dynamics of a coupled two-component nonequilibrium system is examined by means of continuum field theory representing the corresponding master equation. Particles of species A may perform hopping processes only when particles of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Trimper , U. C. Taeuber , G. M. Schuetz

The motion of molecules on solid surfaces is of interest for technological applications, but it is also a theoretical challenge. We study the deterministic and thermal diffusive dynamics of a dimer moving on a periodic substrate. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Fusco , A. Fasolino

The behavior of the self diffusion constant of Langevin particles interacting via a pairwise interaction is considered. The diffusion constant is calculated approximately within a perturbation theory in the potential strength about the bare…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Dean , A. Lefèvre

A simple manner to describe the diffusive relaxation of a colloidal fluid adsorbed in a porous medium is to model the porous medium as a set of spherical particles fixed in space at random positions with prescribed statistical structural…

We propose an interpolation expression using the difference moment (Kolmogorov transient structural function) of the second order as the average characteristic of displacements for identifying the anomalous diffusion in complex processes…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-08-25 Serge F. Timashev , Yuriy S. Polyakov , Pavel I. Misurkin , Sergey G. Lakeev

The time-asymptotic behavior of undamped, nonlinear oscillators with a random frequency is investigated analytically and numerically. We find that averaged quantities of physical interest, such as the oscillator's mechanical energy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirone Mallick , Philippe Marcq

The~numerical solutions to a non-linear Fractional Fokker--Planck (FFP) equation are studied estimating the generalized diffusion coefficients. The~aim is to model anomalous diffusion using an FFP description with fractional velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Johan Anderson , Sara Moradi , Tariq Rafiq