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The problem of diffusion in a time-dependent (and generally inhomogeneous) external field is considered on the basis of a generalized master equation with two times, introduced in [1,2]. We consider the case of the quasi Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger , G. J. F. van Heijst , O. F. Petrov , P. P. J. M. Schram

The diffusion of active microscopic organisms in complex environments plays an important role in a wide range of biological phenomena from cell colony growth to single organism transport. Here, we investigate theoretically and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Juan L. Aragones , Shahrzad Yazdi , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

The diffusion in two dimensions of non-interacting active particles that follow an arbitrary motility pattern is considered for analysis. Accordingly, the transport equation is generalized to take into account an arbitrary distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-01 Francisco J. Sevilla

We develop an effective theory of pulse propagation in a nonlinear {\it and} disordered medium. The theory is formulated in terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation. Despite its apparent simplicity this equation describes novel phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkelstein

We call a system bouncing ball billiard if it consists of a particle that is subjected to a constant vertical force and bounces inelastically on a one-dimendional vibrating periodically corrugated floor. Here we choose circular scatterers…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Matyas , R. Klages

We examine characteristic properties of deterministic and stochastic diffusion in low-dimensional chaotic dynamical systems. As an example, we consider a periodic array of scatterers defined by a simple chaotic map on the line. Adding…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Klages

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

Diffusion of colloidal particles in a complex environment such as polymer networks or biological cells is a topic of high complexity with significant biological and medical relevance. In such situations, the interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-10 Andreas M. Menzel

We study the persistence and propagation (or blocking) phenomena for a species in periodically hostile environments. The problem is described by a reaction-diffusion equation with zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We first derive the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Jong-Shenq Guo , Francois Hamel

Mathematical models of motility are often based on random-walk descriptions of discrete individuals that can move according to certain rules. It is usually the case that large masses concentrated in small regions of space have a great…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-23 Carles Falcó

Consider "Frozen Random Walk" on $\mathbb{Z}$: $n$ particles start at the origin. At any discrete time, the leftmost and rightmost $\lfloor{\frac{n}{4}}\rfloor$ particles are "frozen" and do not move. The rest of the particles in the "bulk"…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Laura Florescu , Shirshendu Ganguly , Yuval Peres , Joel Spencer

The idea that the dynamics of a spin is determined by the size of its neighbouring domains was recently introduced (S. Biswas and P. Sen, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 80}, 027101 (2009)) in a Ising spin model (henceforth, referred to as model I). A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-14 Soham Biswas , Parongama Sen

We consider random walks in dynamic random environments given by Markovian dynamics on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. We assume that the environment has a stationary distribution $\mu$ and satisfies the Poincar\'e inequality w.r.t. $\mu$. The random walk…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-01 L. Avena , O. Blondel , A. Faggionato

Diffusion of small particles is omnipresent in a plentiful number of processes occurring in Nature. As such, it is widely studied and exerted in almost all branches of sciences. It constitutes such a broad and often rather complex subject…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jakub Spiechowicz , Ivan G. Marchenko , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

We present a study on the dynamics of a system consisting of a pair of hardcore particles diffusing with different rates. We solved the drift-diffusion equation for this model in the case when one particle, labeled F, drifts and diffuses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-14 S. L. Narasimhan , A. Baumgaertner

We review some exact results for the motion of a tagged particle in simple models. Then, we study the density dependence of the self diffusion coefficient, $D_N(\rho)$, in lattice systems with simple symmetric exclusion in which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Asselah , R. Brito , J. L. Lebowitz

Diffusion-coagulation can be simply described by a dynamic where particles perform a random walk on a lattice and coalesce with probability unity when meeting on the same site. Such processes display non-equilibrium properties with strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-13 L. Turban , J. -Y. Fortin

We propose a model for diffusion of two opposite opinions. Here, the decision to be taken by each individual is a random variable which depends on the tendency of the population, as well on its own trend characteristic. The influence of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Manuel González-Navarrete , Rodrigo Lambert

Whether an idea, information, infection, or innovation diffuses throughout a society depends not only on the structure of the network of interactions, but also on the timing of those interactions. Recent studies have shown that diffusion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-19 Mohammad Akbarpour , Matthew O. Jackson

It is well known that on long time scales the behaviour of tracer particles diffusing in a cellular flow is effectively that of a Brownian motion. This paper studies the behaviour on "intermediate" time scales before diffusion sets in.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Gautam Iyer , Alexei Novikov