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We investigate the diffusion of particles in an attractive one-dimensional potential that grows logarithmically for large $|x|$ using the Fokker-Planck equation. An eigenfunction expansion shows that the Boltzmann equilibrium density does…

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In a model of $N$ volume-excluding spheres in a $d$-dimensional tube, we consider how differences between particles in their drift velocities, diffusivities, and sizes influence the steady state distribution and axial particle current. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-15 Emil Mallmin , Richard A. Blythe , Martin Evans

We study the problem of particles undergoing Brownian motion in an expanding sphere whose surface is an absorbing boundary for the particles. The problem is akin to that of the diffusion of impurities in a grain of polycrystalline material…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karl Forsberg , Ali R. Massih

We analyze scattering in a system of two (distinguishable) particles moving on the half-line $\overline{\rz}_+$ under the influence of singular two-particle interactions. Most importantly, due to the spatial localization of the interactions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Sebastian Egger , Joachim Kerner

We consider the following interacting particle system: There is a ``gas'' of particles, each of which performs a continuous time simple random walk on the d-dimensional lattice. These particles are called A-particles and move independently…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Harry Kesten , Vladas Sidoravicius

The concept of diffusion in collisionless space plasmas like those near the magnetopause and in the geomagnetic tail is reexamined from a fundamental statistical point of view making use of the division of particle orbits into waiting…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

The adsorption of particles diffusing in a half-space bounded by the substrate and irreversibly sticking to the substrate upon contacts is investigated. We show that when absorbing particles are planar disks diffusing in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-25 P. L. Krapivsky

We study the evolution of an initially random distribution of particles on a square lattice, under certain rules for `growing' and `culling' of particles. In one version we allow the particles to move laterally along the surface (mobile…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tapati Dutta , Nikolai Lebovka , S. Tarafdar

We consider a one-dimensional mono-atomic lattice with random perturbations of masses spread over a finite number of particles. Assuming Newtonian dynamics and linear nearest-neighbour interactions and allowing for a provision of pinning…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Josselin Garnier , Basant Lal Sharma

We study the real time evolution of the correlation functions in a globally quenched interacting one dimensional lattice system by means of time adaptive density matrix renormalization group. We find a clear light-cone behavior quenching…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-16 L. Barbiero , L. Dell'Anna

Considering the dynamics of non-interacting particles randomly moving on a lattice, the occurrence of a discontinuous transition in the values of the lattice parameters (lattice spacing and hopping times) determines the uprisal of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Massimiliano Giona , Davide Cocco

A {\em propagation-dispersion equation} is derived for the first passage distribution function of a particle moving on a substrate with time delays. The equation is obtained as the continuous limit of the {\em first visit equation}, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Pierre Boon , Patrick Grosfils , James F. Lutsko

In this study, inspired by the work of K. Nakazato and K. Kitahara [Prog. Theor. Phys. 64, 2261 (1980)], we consider the theoretical problem of tracer particle diffusion in an environment of diffusing hardcore interacting crowder particles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-22 Simon Pigeon , Karl Fogelmark , Bo Söderberg , Gautam Mukhopadhyay , Tobias Ambjörnsson

Fractional, anomalous diffusion in space-periodic potentials is investigated. The analytical solution for the effective, fractional diffusion coefficient in an arbitrary periodic potential is obtained in closed form in terms of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-02 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

We study asymptotic properties of the system of interacting diffusion particles on the real line which transfer a mass [arXiv:1408.0628]. The system is a natural generalization of the coalescing Brownian motions. The main difference is that…

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We analyze the dynamics of particles in two dimensions with constant speed and a stochastic switching angle dynamics defined by a correlated dichotomous Markov process (telegraph noise) plus Gaussian white noise. We study various cases of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-16 Christian Weber , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We address the question: Why may reaction-diffusion equations with hysteretic nonlinearities become ill-posed and how to amend this? To do so, we discretize the spatial variable and obtain a lattice dynamical system with a hysteretic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Pavel Gurevich , Sergey Tikhomirov

We investigate the diffusive motion of an overdamped classical particle in a 1D random potential using the mean first-passage time formalism and demonstrate the efficiency of this method in the investigation of the large-time dynamics of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Gorokhov , G. Blatter

We consider a tracer particle on a lattice in the presence of immobile obstacles. Starting from equilibrium, a force pulling on the particle is switched on, driving the system to a new stationary state. We solve for the complete transient…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-04 Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Franosch

We investigated the effect of noise on propagation of two interacting particles pairs in a quasi one--dimensional random potential. It is shown that pair diffusion is strongly enhanced by short range interaction comparing with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Fausto Borgonovi , Dima L. Shepelyansky