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Thermo-kinetic description of anomalous diffusion in microrheology

, , and . Abstract Book of the XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Genova, Italy, (9-13 July 2007)

Abstract

We present a thermo-kinetic description of anomalous diffusion of particles in a viscoelastic medium in terms of a non-Markovian diffusion equation. The model explains finite-size and confinement effects in the dynamics of the test particle. We found good agreement between this theoretical model and experimental results reporting a power-law behavior of the mean-square displacement (MSD) in which the exponent depends on the ratio between particle-to-cytoskeleton-network sizes. We also reproduce the behavior of the MSD in a suspension of micelles.

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