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Diffusion coefficient usually decreases when friction increases. We analyze the opposite behavior in the paradigmatic system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric spatially periodic potential and driven by an…

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Sticky Brownian motion is the simplest example of a diffusion process that can spend finite time both in the interior of a domain and on its boundary. It arises in various applications such as in biology, materials science, and finance.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

We discuss the dynamics of a Brownian particle under the influence of a spatially periodic noise strength in one dimension using analytical theory and computer simulations. In the absence of a deterministic force, the Langevin equation can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-28 Davide Breoni , Ralf Blossey , Hartmut Löwen

Fractional Brownian motion (FBM), a non-Markovian self-similar Gaussian stochastic process with long-ranged correlations, represents a widely applied, paradigmatic mathematical model of anomalous diffusion. We report the results of…

We revisit the problem of diffusion in a driven system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric time-periodic force. We reveal parameter domains in which diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 I. G. Marchenko , A. Zhiglo , V. Aksenova , V. Tkachenko , I. I. Marchenko , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

The effective diffusion of Brownian particles in periodic potential has been a central topic in nonequilibrium statistical physcis. A classical result is the Lifson formula which provides the effective diffusion constant in periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-22 Sang Yang , Zhixin Peng

We investigate the extreme value statistics of a one-dimensional Brownian motion (with the diffusion constant $D$) during a time interval $\left[0, t \right]$ in the presence of a reflective boundary at the origin, starting from a positive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-26 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

A model for anomalous transport of tracer particles diffusing in complex media in two dimensions is proposed. The model takes into account the characteristics of persistent motion that active bath transfer to the tracer, thus the model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Francisco J. Sevilla , Adriano Valdés-Gómez , Alexis Torres-Carbajal

We introduce the stochastic process of incremental multifractional Brownian motion (IMFBM), which locally behaves like fractional Brownian motion with a given local Hurst exponent and diffusivity. When these parameters change as function of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-27 Jakub Slezak , Ralf Metzler

The lateral diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle on a two-dimensional random surface is studied in the quenched limit for which the surface configuration is time-independent. We start with the stochastic equation of motion for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-06 Takao Ohta , Shigeyuki Komura

We investigate the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements for particle diffusion in a simple model for disordered media by assuming that the local diffusivity is both fluctuating in time and has a deterministic average growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. G. Cherstvy , R. Metzler

We describe a two-dimensional model for active particles whose self-propulsion speed is not fixed, but varies in time, and whose motion is subject to both translational and rotational diffusion. In the conventional treatment of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Tayeb Jamali

A system reservoir model, where the associated reservoir is modulated by an external colored random force, is proposed to study the transport of an overdamped Brownian particle in a periodic potential. We then derive the analytical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-01 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Suman Kumar Banik , Sudip Chattopadhyay , Pinaki Chaudhury

The phenomenon of macroscopic homogenization is illustrated with a simple example of diffusion. We examine the conditions under which a $d$--dimensional simple random walk in a symmetric random media converges to a Brownian motion. For…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Domingos H. U. Marchetti , Roberto da Silva

We study subdiffusive ratchet transport in periodically and randomly flashing potentials. Central Brownian particle is elastically coupled to surrounding auxiliary Brownian quasi-particles which account for the influence of viscoelastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-04 Vasyl Kharchenko , Igor Goychuk

We discuss the situations under which Brownian yet non-Gaussian (BnG) diffusion can be observed in the model of a particle's motion in a random landscape of diffusion coefficients slowly varying in space. Our conclusion is that such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-15 E. B. Postnikov , A. Chechkin , I. M. Sokolov

We consider active Brownian particles that intermittently switch between active and inactive states. Such behavior is ubiquitous at all scales, from bacteria to animals and in artificial active systems. We derive exact expressions for key…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fernando Peruani , Debasish Chaudhuri

We reassess the "dispersionless transport regime" of Brownian particles in tilted periodic potentials. We show that the particles exhibit normal diffusive motion right after transitioning into the running state dragged by the constant bias…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 I. G. Marchenko , V. Yu. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , A. V. Zhiglo

We study a diffusion approximation for a model of stochastic motion of a particle in one spatial dimension. The velocity of the particle is constant but the direction of the motion undergoes random changes with a Poisson clock. Moreover,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Adam Bobrowski , Tomasz Komorowski

In this work we establish a link between two different phenomena that were studied in a large and growing number of biological, composite and soft media: the diffusion in compartmentalized environment and the Brownian yet non-Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Jakub Ślęzak , Stanislav Burov