Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Anomalous dynamics of intruders in a crowded environment of mobile obstacles

  • Tatjana Sentjabrskaja,
  • Emanuela Zaccarelli,
  • Cristiano De Michele,
  • Francesco Sciortino,
  • Piero Tartaglia,
  • Thomas Voigtmann,
  • Stefan U. Egelhaaf,
  • Marco Laurati

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11133
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The classical Lorentz gas model is widely used to describe constrained transport, but its assumption of an immobile environment is not applicable to many biological and industrial processes. Here, the authors show that the mobility of the matrix induces anomalous, logarithmic dynamics of the confined particles.