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  • Physics
  • Biophysics
  • Statistical Mechanics

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  • Stochastic interactions are known to enhance self-diffusivity in biological systems, crucial for processes like navigation and tissue mechanics.
  • The underlying physical mechanisms driving this nonequilibrium enhancement remain poorly understood.
  • Understanding these mechanisms is key to controlling transport properties in cellular and bacterial systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and analyze a model of stochastic resetting for understanding enhanced self-diffusivity.
  • To derive analytic results for the self-diffusion coefficient under this resetting mechanism.
  • To investigate how the arrangement of resetting sites affects diffusion enhancement.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a theoretical model incorporating a local stochastic resetting mechanism.
  • Analytical derivation of the self-diffusion coefficient.
  • Mathematical analysis of the impact of resetting site regularity on diffusivity.

Main Results:

  • The proposed stochastic resetting mechanism demonstrably enhances self-diffusivity.
  • Analytic results explicitly show the enhancement of the diffusion coefficient.
  • The enhancement of diffusivity is found to be optimized by regular arrays of resetting sites.

Conclusions:

  • Stochastic resetting is a viable mechanism for enhancing self-diffusivity in diffusive systems.
  • Regular arrangements of resetting sites offer an optimal strategy for maximizing diffusion.
  • The findings provide conditions for optimizing macroscopic transport in systems with local binding interactions.