Anomalous diffusion models and their properties: non-stationarity, non-ergodicity, and ageing at the centenary of single particle tracking

R Metzler, JH Jeon, AG Cherstvy… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Modern microscopic techniques following the stochastic motion of labelled tracer particles
have uncovered significant deviations from the laws of Brownian motion in a variety of …

Anomalous diffusion and ergodicity breaking in heterogeneous diffusion processes

AG Cherstvy, AV Chechkin, R Metzler - New Journal of Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate the non-ergodicity of a simple Markovian stochastic process with space-
dependent diffusion coefficient D (x). For power-law forms D (x)≃| x| α, this process yields …

Non-Gaussian, non-ergodic, and non-Fickian diffusion of tracers in mucin hydrogels

AG Cherstvy, S Thapa, CE Wagner, R Metzler - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Native mucus is polymer-based soft-matter material of paramount biological importance.
How non-Gaussian and non-ergodic is the diffusive spreading of pathogens in mucus? We …

Fractional Brownian motion with random diffusivity: emerging residual nonergodicity below the correlation time

W Wang, AG Cherstvy, AV Chechkin… - Journal of Physics A …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerous examples for a priori unexpected non-Gaussian behaviour for normal and
anomalous diffusion have recently been reported in single-particle tracking experiments …

Anomalous diffusion and nonergodicity for heterogeneous diffusion processes with fractional Gaussian noise

W Wang, AG Cherstvy, X Liu, R Metzler - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Heterogeneous diffusion processes (HDPs) feature a space-dependent diffusivity of the form
D (x)= D 0| x| α. Such processes yield anomalous diffusion and weak ergodicity breaking …

Guidelines for the fitting of anomalous diffusion mean square displacement graphs from single particle tracking experiments

E Kepten, A Weron, G Sikora, K Burnecki, Y Garini - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Single particle tracking is an essential tool in the study of complex systems and biophysics
and it is commonly analyzed by the time-averaged mean square displacement (MSD) of the …

Inertia triggers nonergodicity of fractional Brownian motion

AG Cherstvy, W Wang, R Metzler, IM Sokolov - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
How related are the ergodic properties of the over-and underdamped Langevin equations
driven by fractional Gaussian noise? We here find that for massive particles performing …

Bayesian analysis of single-particle tracking data using the nested-sampling algorithm: maximum-likelihood model selection applied to stochastic-diffusivity data

S Thapa, MA Lomholt, J Krog, AG Cherstvy… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We employ Bayesian statistics using the nested-sampling algorithm to compare and rank
multiple models of ergodic diffusion (including anomalous diffusion) as well as to assess …

DNA–cholesterol barges as programmable membrane-exploring agents

A Johnson-Buck, S Jiang, H Yan, NG Walter - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
DNA nanotechnology enables the precise construction of nanoscale devices that mimic
aspects of natural biomolecular systems yet exhibit robustly programmable behavior. While …

Quantifying non-ergodicity of anomalous diffusion with higher order moments

M Schwarzl, A Godec, R Metzler - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Anomalous diffusion is being discovered in a fast growing number of systems. The exact
nature of this anomalous diffusion provides important information on the physical laws …