We investigate diffusion in polydisperse granular media. We derive the mean-squared displacement of granular particles in a polydisperse granular gas in a homogeneous cooling state, containing an arbitrary amount of species of different sizes and masses. We investigate both models of constant and time-dependent restitution coefficients and obtain a universal law for the size dependence of the mean-squared displacement for steep size distributions.
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