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Classical diffusion in a random medium involves an exponential functional of Brownian motion. This functional also appears in the study of Brownian diffusion on a Riemann surface of constant negative curvature. We analyse in detail this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Alain COMTET , Cecile MONTHUS

Overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. On top of translational and rotational diffusion, in the context of the presented model, the "active" particle is driven along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Borge ten Hagen , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

Overdamped motion of Brownian particles in tilted piecewise linear periodic potentials is considered. Explicit algebraic expressions for the diffusion coefficient, current, and coherence level of Brownian transport are derived. Their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Els Heinsalu , Risto Tammelo , Teet Ord

The weak noise limit of dissipative dynamical systems is often the most fascinating one. In such a case fluctuations can interact with a rich complexity frequently hidden in deterministic systems to give rise of completely new phenomena…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 Jakub Spiechowicz , Jerzy Łuczka

We present a numerical investigation of the Brownian motion and diffusion of a dumbbell in a two-dimensional periodic potential. Its dynamics is described by a Langevin model including the hydrodynamic interaction. With increasing values of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-09-02 Jochen Bammert , Steffen Schreiber , Walter Zimmermann

A Langevin process diffusing in a periodic potential landscape has a time dependent diffusion constant which means that its average mean squared displacement (MSD) only becomes linear at late times. The long time, or effective diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 David S. Dean , Gleb Oshanin

The diffusion of a system of ferromagnetic dipoles confined in a quasi-one-dimensional parabolic trap is studied using Brownian dynamics simulations. We show that the dynamics of the system is tunable by an in-plane external homogeneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-15 D. Lucena , W. P. Ferreira , F. F. Munarin , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

We study the large-time behaviour of Brownian particles moving through a viscous medium in a confined potential, and which are further subjected to position-dependent driving forces that are periodic in time. We focus on the case where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sreedhar B. Dutta , Mustansir Barma

Nonergodicity observed in single-particle tracking experiments is usually modeled by transient trapping rather than spatial disorder. We introduce models of a particle diffusing in a medium consisting of regions with random sizes and random…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-23 P. Massignan , C. Manzo , J. A. Torreno-Pina , M. F. García-Parajo , M. Lewenstein , G. J. Lapeyre

We study the long-time behavior of underdamped Brownian particle moving through a viscous medium and in a systematic potential, when it is subjected to a space-dependent high-frequency periodic force. When the frequency is very large, much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Malay Bandyopadhyay , Sushanta Dattagupta , Monamie Sanyal

We analyze quantal Brownian motion in $d$ dimensions using the unified model for diffusion localization and dissipation, and Feynman-Vernon formalism. At high temperatures the propagator possess a Markovian property and we can write down an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Doron Cohen

The motion of particles in random potentials occurs in several natural phenomena ranging from the mobility of organelles within a biological cell to the diffusion of stars within a galaxy. A Brownian particle moving in the random optical…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-06 Giorgio Volpe , Giovanni Volpe , Sylvain Gigan

We study the behavior of a tracer particle driven by a one-dimensional fluctuating potential, defined initially as a Brownian motion, and evolving in time according to the heat equation. We obtain two main results. First, in the short time…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-16 François Huveneers , François Simenhaus

Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when subjected to a time-dependent stress. Rather, the stress…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 David Santiago Quevedo , Monica Conte , Marjolein Dijkstra , Cristiane Morais Smith

The diffusive motion of overdamped Brownian particles in tilted piecewise linear pontentials is considered. It is shown that the enhancement of diffusion coefficient by an external static force is quite sensitive to the symmetry of periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Els Heinsalu , Risto Tammelo , Teet Ord

Brownian motion is the perpetual irregular motion exhibited by small particles immersed in a fluid. Such random motion of the particles is produced by statistical fluctuations in the collisions they suffer with the molecules of the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Kasturi Basu , Kopinjol Baishya

We study the second-order asymptotics around the superdiffusive strong law~\cite{MMW} of a multidimensional driftless diffusion with oblique reflection from the boundary in a generalised parabolic domain. In the unbounded direction we prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Aleksandar Mijatović , Isao Sauzedde , Andrew Wade

The non-thermal nature of self-propelling colloids offers new insights into non-equilibrium physics. The central mathematical model to describe their trajectories is active Brownian motion, where a particle moves with a constant speed,…

This letter introduces a formalism for modeling time-variant channels for diffusive molecular communication systems. In particular, we consider a fluid environment where one transmitter nano-machine and one receiver nano-machine are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Arman Ahmadzadeh , Vahid Jamali , Adam Noel , Robert Schober

In this paper, a comprehensive examination of the temperature- and bias-dependent diffusion regimes of underdamped Brownian particles is presented. A temperature threshold for a transition between anomalous and normal diffusive behaviors is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-16 Trey Jiron , Marygrace Prinster , Jarrod Schiffbauer