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ArticleScience advances2022

First-passage statistics of colloids on fractals: Theory and experimental realization.

Christoph Zunke, Jörg Bewerunge, Florian Platten, Stefan U Egelhaaf, Aljaž Godec

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Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Christoph ZunkeCondensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0968-5870
Jörg BewerungeCondensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5274-9636
Florian PlattenCondensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5912-1833
Stefan U EgelhaafCondensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2574-3498
Aljaž GodecMathematical bioPhysics Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1888-6666

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In nature and technology, particle dynamics frequently occur in complex environments, for example in restricted geometries or crowded media. These dynamics have often been modeled invoking a fractal structure of the medium although the fractal structure was only indirectly inferred through the dynamics. Moreover, systematic studies have not yet been performed. Here, colloidal particles moving in a laser speckle pattern are used as a model system. In this case, the experimental observations can be reliably traced to the fractal structure of the underlying medium with an adjustable fractal dimension. First-passage time statistics reveal that the particles explore the speckle in a self-similar, fractal manner at least over four decades in time and on length scales up to 20 times the particle radius. The requirements for fractal diffusion to be applicable are laid out, and methods to extract the fractal dimension are established.

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