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Jing Zhang1, Shengda Zhao1, Rongxin Yue1
1Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, School of Physical Science and Engineering, Beijing 100044, China and Beijing Key Laboratory of Materials Genome Engineering and Applications for Rail Transit, Beijing 100044, China.
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Understanding diffusion in disordered systems composed of obstacle particles is crucial for elucidating transport phenomena ranging from biological tissues to engineered porous materials. Existing studies predominantly employ the random sequential adsorption method and characterize media solely by density ρ. We show that this is fundamentally incomplete: These structures exhibit a tunable hyperuniformity exponent β that spans from periodic lattices to Poisson processes, yielding qualitatively different diffusion even at identical ρ. We derive a β-dependent analytical expression for the diffusion coefficient 1-D/D_{0}∼ρ^{2-β/2} in the low-ρ limit and predict a β-dependent percolation threshold ρ_{c}(β) in the high-ρ regime. Brownian dynamics simulations across the full (β,ρ) plane complete the picture, yielding both the diffusion coefficients and the phase diagram of normal, hopping, and trapped states.
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