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We propose a novel semiclassical mechanism to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity, where wave function collapse in a superposition state induces a rapid change in the energy-momentum tensor, triggering spacetime dynamics that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Xiaoqiang Wang

We examine the applicability of the weak wave turbulence theory in explaining experimental scaling results obtained for the diffusion and relative diffusion of particles moving on turbulent surface waves. For capillary waves our theoretical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-09-23 Victor M. Eguiluz , Mogens T. Levinsen , Preben Alstrom

In this paper we present analytical and random walk based solutions to diffusion in semi-permeable layered media with varying diffusivity. We propose a new random walk transit model (hybrid model) based on treating the membrane permeability…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Ignasi Alemany , Jan N. Rose , Jérôme Garnier-Brun , Andrew D. Scott , Denis J. Doorly

Using random walk simulations we explore diffusive transport through monodisperse sphere packings over a range of packing fractions, $\phi$, in the vicinity of the jamming transition at $\phi_{c}$. Various diffusion properties are computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Dan S. Bolintineanu , Gary S. Grest , Jeremy B. Lechman , Leonardo E. Silbert

We analyse how simple local constraints in two dimensions lead a defect to exhibit robust, non-transient, and tunable, subdiffusion. We uncover a rich dynamical phenomenology realised in ice- and dimer-type models. On the microscopic scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nilotpal Chakraborty , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

We report on measurements of self-diffusion coefficients in discrete numerical simulations of steady, homogeneous, collisional shearing flows of nearly identical, frictional, inelastic spheres. We focus on a range of relatively high solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-01 Riccardo Artoni , Michele Larcher , James Jenkins , Patrick Richard

In this article we report on a study of the near-wall dynamics of suspended colloidal hard spheres over a broad range of volume fractions. We present a thorough comparison of experimental data with predictions based on a virial…

Expanding media are typical in many different fields, e.g. in Biology and Cosmology. In general, a medium expansion (contraction) brings about dramatic changes in the behavior of diffusive transport properties. Here, we focus on such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-27 F. Le Vot , E. Abad , S. B. Yuste

The concept of Nonlinear dispersion relation (NDR) is used in various fields of Physics (nonlinear optics, hydrodynamics, hydroelasticity, mechanics, quantum optics, plasma physics,...) to characterize fundamental phenomena induced by…

The diffusion of a particle in a crowded environment typically proceeds through three regimes: for very short times the particle diffuses freely until it collides with an obstacle for the first time, while for very long times diffusion the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Nguiya P. Neo , Gary W. Slater

The hypersphere model is a simple one-parameter model of the potential energy landscape of viscous liquids, which is defined as a percolating system of same-radius hyperspheres randomly distributed in $\mathbb{R}^{3N}$ in which $N$ is the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 Mark F. B. Railton , Eva Uhre , Jeppe C. Dyre , Thomas B. Schrøder

In the classical theory of thin disc accretion discs, the constraints of mass and angular momentum conservation lead to a diffusion-like equation for the turbulent evolution of the surface density. Here, we revisit this problem, extending…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Steven A Balbus

A stationary distribution function that describes the entire processes of propagation of relativistic particles, including the transition between the ballistic and diffusion regimes, is obtained. The spacial component of the constructed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 A. Y. Prosekin , S. R. Kelner , F. A. Aharonian

We show that waves propagating in a transition disk can explain the short term temporal behavior of Cygnus X-1. In the transition disk model the spectrum is produced by saturated Comptonization within the inner region of the accretion disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ranjeev Misra

Diffusion and anomalous diffusion are widely observed and used to study movement across organisms, resulting in extensive use of the mean and mean-squared displacement (MSD). However, these measures - corresponding to specific displacement…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Ohad Vilk , Motti Charter , Sivan Toledo , Eli Barkai , Ran Nathan

Based on a proposed classical explanation, the quantum mechanical "decay of the wave packet" is shown to simply result from sub-quantum diffusion with a specific diffusivity varying in time due to a particle's changing thermal environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Siegfried Fussy , Herbert Schwabl , Gerhard Groessing

Some experimental implications of the recent progress on wave function collapse are calculated. Exact results are derived for the center-of-mass wave function collapse caused by random scatterings and applied to a range of specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Max Tegmark

We studied the self-diffusion of colloidal ellipsoids in a monolayer near a flat wall by video microscopy. The image processing algorithm can track the positions and orientations of ellipsoids with sub-pixel resolution. The translational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhongyu Zheng , Yilong Han

Quantum state diffusion shows how stochastic interaction with the environment may cause localisation of the wave-function, and thereby demonstrates that quantum mechanics need not invoke a separate axiom of measurement to explain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Dunstan

We have analyzed recently published XENONnT data for the spontaneous X-ray emission signature predicted by the objective wave function collapse model of quantum mechanics. With extremely low background and large exposure, XENONnT data can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Inwook Kim