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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 9: Statistical Physics of Biological Systems II (with BP, talks from BP)

DY 9.6: Talk

Monday, March 26, 2012, 16:15–16:30, H 1058

Fractional Brownian Motion in Crowded FluidsDominique Ernst1, Marcel Hellmann2, Jürgen Köhler1, and •Matthias Weiss21Experimental Physics IV, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth — 2Experimental Physics I, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth

Diffusion in crowded fluids, e.g. in the cytoplasm of living cells, has frequently been reported to show an anomalous characteristics ('subdiffusion'). Several random walk models have been proposed to explain these observations, yet so far an experimentally supported decision in favor of one of these models has been lacking. Here, we show that experimentally obtained trajectories in a prototypical crowded fluid show an ergodic behavior and an asphericity that is most consistent with the predictions of fractional Brownian motion, i.e. an anti-correlated, anti-persistent generalization of normal Brownian motion that is related to the fluid's viscoelasticity.

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