Models of anomalous diffusion in crowded environments

IM Sokolov - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A particle's motion in crowded environments often exhibits anomalous diffusion, whose
nature depends on the situation at hand and is formalized within different physical models …

A toolbox for determining subdiffusive mechanisms

Y Meroz, IM Sokolov - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Subdiffusive processes have become a field of great interest in the last decades, due to
amounting experimental evidence of subdiffusive behavior in complex systems, and …

Objective comparison of methods to decode anomalous diffusion

G Muñoz-Gil, G Volpe, MA Garcia-March… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Deviations from Brownian motion leading to anomalous diffusion are found in transport
dynamics from quantum physics to life sciences. The characterization of anomalous diffusion …

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 …

Protein crowding in lipid bilayers gives rise to non-Gaussian anomalous lateral diffusion of phospholipids and proteins

JH Jeon, M Javanainen, H Martinez-Seara, R Metzler… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
Biomembranes are exceptionally crowded with proteins with typical protein-to-lipid ratios
being around 1∶ 50− 1∶ 100. Protein crowding has a decisive role in lateral membrane …

Diffusing diffusivity: a model for anomalous, yet Brownian, diffusion

MV Chubynsky, GW Slater - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Wang et al.[Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 15160 (2009)] have found that in several
systems the linear time dependence of the mean-square displacement (MSD) of diffusing …

Stochastic resetting: A (very) brief review

S Gupta, AM Jayannavar - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Stochastic processes offer a fundamentally different paradigm of dynamics than
deterministic processes that one is most familiar with, the most prominent example of the …

Single particle tracking in systems showing anomalous diffusion: the role of weak ergodicity breaking

S Burov, JH Jeon, R Metzler, E Barkai - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Anomalous diffusion has been widely observed by single particle tracking microscopy in
complex systems such as biological cells. The resulting time series are usually evaluated in …

Cytoplasmic RNA-protein particles exhibit non-Gaussian subdiffusive behavior

TJ Lampo, S Stylianidou, MP Backlund, PA Wiggins… - Biophysical journal, 2017 - cell.com
The cellular cytoplasm is a complex, heterogeneous environment (both spatially and
temporally) that exhibits viscoelastic behavior. To further develop our quantitative insight into …

Anomalous diffusion of phospholipids and cholesterols in a lipid bilayer and its origins

JH Jeon, HMS Monne, M Javanainen, R Metzler - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Combining extensive molecular dynamics simulations of lipid bilayer systems of varying
chemical compositions with single-trajectory analyses, we systematically elucidate the …