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Tobias Ambjörnsson

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Single-File Diffusion in a Box

Author

  • L. Lizana
  • T. Ambjörnsson

Summary, in English

We study diffusion of (fluorescently) tagged hard-core interacting particles of finite size in a finite one-dimensional system. We find an exact analytical expression for the tagged particle probability density function using a Bethe ansatz, from which the mean square displacement is calculated. The analysis shows the existence of three regimes of drastically different behavior for short, intermediate, and large times. The results are in excellent agreement with stochastic simulations (Gillespie algorithm).

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review Letters

Volume

100

Issue

20

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
  • Biophysics
  • Other Physics Topics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0031-9007