Tracer particles in two-dimensional elastic networks diffuse logarithmically slow

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/50/3/034001MaRDI QIDQ2959714zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ludvig Lizana, Tobias Ambjörnsson, Michael A. Lomholt

Publication date 9 February 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00493

zbMATH Keywords

diffusionlogarithmic dynamicsmembranesingle-particle tracking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Membranes (74K15) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

Abstract: Several experiments on tagged molecules or particles in living systems suggest that they move anomalously slow - their mean squared displacement (MSD) increase slower than linearly with time. Leading models aimed at understanding these experiments predict that the MSD grows as a power law with a growth exponent that is smaller than unity. However, in some experiments the exponent is so small $(sim0.1-0.2)$ that they hint towards other mechanisms at play. In this paper, we theoretically demonstrate how in-plane collective modes excited by thermal fluctuations in a two dimensional membrane lead to logarithmic time dependence for the mean square displacement of a tracer particle.

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