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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 dense flow of air bubbles in a two-dimensional silo (through an aperture D) filled with a liquid is studied experimentally. A particle tracking technique has been used to bring out the main properties of the flow: displacements of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yann Bertho , Christophe Becco , Nicolas Vandewalle

We theoretically study the transport properties of self-propelled particles on complex structures, such as motor proteins on filament networks. A general master equation formalism is developed to investigate the persistent motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi , Igor M. Sokolov , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

Anomalous diffusion and non-Gaussian statistics are detected experimentally in a two-dimensional driven-dissipative system. A single-layer dusty plasma suspension with a Yukawa interaction and frictional dissipation is heated with laser…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Bin Liu , J. Goree

We study a process of anomalous diffusion, based on intermittent velocity fluctuations, and we show that its scaling depends on whether we observe the motion of many independent trajectories or that of a Liouville-like equation driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bologna , P. Grigolini , B. J. West

We investigate evolution equations for anomalous diffusion employing fractional derivatives in space and time. Linkage between the space-time variables leads to a new type of fractional derivative operator. Fractional diffusion equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej J. Turski , Barbara Atamaniuk , Ewa Turska

Consider a chaotic dynamical system generating Brownian motion-like diffusion. Consider a second, non-chaotic system in which all particles localize. Let a particle experience a random combination of both systems by sampling between them in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 Y. Sato , R. Klages

The motion of self-propelled particles is modeled as a persistent random walk. An analytical framework is developed that allows the derivation of exact expressions for the time evolution of arbitrary moments of the persistent walk's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-28 Zeinab Sadjadi , M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

The passive and active motion of micron-sized tracer particles in crowded liquids and inside living biological cells is ubiquitously characterised by "viscoelastic" anomalous diffusion, in which the increments of the motion feature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-05 Wei Wang , Flavio Seno , Igor M. Sokolov , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

Anomalous short- and long-time self-diffusion of non-overlapping fractal particles on a percolation cluster with spreading dimension $1.67(2)$ is studied by dynamic Monte Carlo simulations. As reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097801…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Marco Heinen

A physical-mathematical approach to anomalous diffusion may be based on fractional diffusion equations and related random walk models. The fundamental solutions of these equations can be interpreted as probability densities evolving in time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-27 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi

This study handles spatial three-dimensional solution of the nonlinear diffusion equation without particular initial conditions. The functional behavior of the equation and the concentration have been studied in new ways. An auxiliary…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Henrik Stenlund

Uchaikin suggested a mathematical model of an anomalous diffusion in a space was suggested. This model origins in an investigation of processes in complex systems with variable structure: glasses, liquid crystals, biopolymers, proteins and…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Sh. Tsitsiashvili , A. E. Yashin

We show analytically that there is anomalous diffusion when the diffusion constant depends on the concentration as a power law with a positive exponent or a negative exponent with absolute value less than one and the initial condition is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-13 Alex Hansen , Eirik G. Flekkøy

In this paper we present a study of anomalous diffusion using a Fokker-Planck description with fractional velocity derivatives. The distribution functions are found using numerical means for varying degree of fractionality observing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim , Sara Moradi

We discuss the diffusion phenomenon in the parabolic and hyperbolic regimes. New effects related to the finite velocity of the diffusion process are predicted, that can partially explain the strange behavior associated to adsorption…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 A. Sapora , M. Codegone , G. Barbero

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 aim of this paper is to discuss the appropriate modelling of in- and outflow boundary conditions for nonlinear drift-diffusion models for the transport of particles including size exclusion and their effect on the behaviour of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Martin Burger , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

In this letter, we address the relationship between the statistical fluctuations of grain displacements for a full quasistatic plane shear experiment, and the corresponding anomalous diffusion exponent, $\alpha$. We experimentally validate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Gaël Combe , Vincent Richefeu , Marta Stasiak , Allbens P. F. Atman

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