How stickiness can speed up diffusion in confined systems

A Alexandre, M Mangeat, T Guérin, DS Dean - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The paradigmatic model for heterogeneous media used in diffusion studies is built from
reflecting obstacles and surfaces. It is well known that the crowding effect produced by these …

Driven transport of soft Brownian particles through pore-like structures: Effective size method

AP Antonov, A Ryabov, P Maass - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Single-file transport in pore-like structures constitutes an important topic for both theory and
experiment. For hardcore interacting particles, a good understanding of the collective …

Counterintuitive short uphill transitions in single-file diffusion

A Ryabov, D Lips, P Maass - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
A universal feature of single-file transport in micropores is the anomalous diffusion of a
tracer particle. Here, we report on a new inherent property of the tracer dynamics in periodic …

Splitting probabilities for dynamics in corrugated channels: Passive vs. active Brownian motion (a)

P Malgaretti, T Nizkaia, G Oshanin - Europhysics Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In many practically important problems which rely on particles' transport in realistic
corrugated channels, one is interested in knowing the probability that either of the …

Brownian particles in periodic potentials: Coarse-graining versus fine structure

L Defaveri, E Barkai, DA Kessler - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We study the motion of an overdamped particle connected to a thermal heat bath in the
presence of an external periodic potential in one dimension. When we coarse-grain, ie, bin …

Boundary homogenization for target search problems

D Grebenkov, A Skvortsov - Target Search Problems, 2024 - Springer
In this chapter, we describe several approximations in the theory of Laplacian transport near
complex or heterogeneously reactive boundaries. This phenomenon, governed by the …

[PDF][PDF] Brownian particle transport in periodic structures

A Antonov - 2023 - osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de
Particle transport in both natural and fabricated systems often takes place in confined
geometries under single-file conditions. This means, that particles cannot pass each other …

Solute dispersion in channels with periodic square boundary roughness

IS Haugerud, G Linga, EG Flekkøy - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Transport of solutes through channels with rough boundaries is abundant in natural and
engineered settings. However, it is not known currently what the consequences of an …

Effective diffusivity of a Brownian particle in a two-dimensional periodic channel of abruptly alternating width

L Dagdug, AM Berezhkovskii, VY Zitserman… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study diffusion of a Brownian particle in a two-dimensional periodic channel of abruptly
alternating width. Our main result is a simple approximate analytical expression for the …

Effective diffusivity of Brownian particles in a two dimensional square lattice of hard disks

M Mangeat, T Guérin, DS Dean - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We revisit the classic problem of the effective diffusion constant of a Brownian particle in a
square lattice of reflecting impenetrable hard disks. This diffusion constant is also related to …