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This article considers the statistical properties of L\'evy walks possessing a regular long-term linear scaling of the mean square displacement with time, for which the conditions of the classical Central Limit Theorem apply.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 Massimiliano Giona , Andrea Cairoli , Rainer Klages

We refute here the concernes raised in the Comment of our letter. This reply states clearly the validity range of our results and shows that the optimality of inverse-square Levy walks at the basis of the Levy flight foraging hypothesis is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Nicolas Levernier , Johannes Textor , Olivier Bénichou , Raphaël Voituriez

The L\'evy walk process for the lower interval of the time of flight distribution ($\alpha<1$) and with finite resting time between consecutive flights is discussed. The motion is restricted to a region bounded by two absorbing barriers and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-19 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

The albatross optimized flight maneuver -- known as dynamic soaring -- is nothing but a wonder of biology, physics, and engineering. By utilizing dynamic soaring, the bird can travel in the desired flight direction almost for free by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Sameer Pokhrel , Sameh A. Eisa

Recent experiments (G. Ariel, et al., Nature Comm. 6, 8396 (2015)) revealed an intriguing behavior of swarming bacteria: they fundamentally change their collective motion from simple diffusion into a superdiffusive L\'{e}vy walk dynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Sergei Fedotov , Nickolay Korabel

L\'evy flights for light have been demonstrated in disordered systems with and without optical gain, and remained unobserved in ordered ones. In the present letter, we investigate, numerically and experimentally, L\'evy flights for light in…

We review some of the theory relevant to passage times of one-dimensional L\'evy processes out of bounded regions, highlighting results that are useful in physical phenomena modelled by heavy-tailed L\'evy flights. The process is…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Ross A. Maller , Yuguang Fan

Stochastic resetting is a protocol of starting anew, which can be used to facilitate the escape kinetics. We demonstrate that restarting can accelerate the escape kinetics from a finite interval restricted by two absorbing boundaries also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-24 Bartosz Żbik , Bartłomiej Dybiec

We present theoretical and experimental results of L\'evy flights of light originating from a random walk of photons in a hot atomic vapor. In contrast to systems with quenched disorder, this system does not present any correlations between…

The time that waves spend inside 1D random media with the possibility of performing L\'evy walks is experimentally and theoretically studied. The dynamics of quantum and classical wave diffusion has been investigated in canonical disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-07 L. A. Razo-López , A. A. Fernández-Marín , J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez , J. Sánchez-Dehesa , V. A. Gopar

The random flights are (continuous time) random walkswith finite velocity. Often, these models describe the stochastic motions arising in biology. In this paper we study the large time asymptotic behavior of random flights. We prove the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-30 Alessandro De Gregorio , Claudio Macci

In this paper we propose and advocate the use of the so called L\'evy flights as a driving mechanism for a class of stochastic optimization computations. This proposal, for some reasons overlooked until now, is - in author's opinion - very…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek Gutowski

We explore the statistical behavior of the order statistics of the flights of One-sided Levy Processes (OLPs). We begin with the study of the extreme flights of general OLPs,and then focus on the class of selfsimilar processes,investigating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Iddo Eliazar , Joseph klafter

Detecting L\'evy flights of cells has been a challenging problem in experiments. The challenge lies in accessing data in spatiotemporal scales across orders of magnitude, which is necessary for reliably extracting a power-law scaling.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Mingyang Li , Yu'an Li , H. P. Zhang , Yongfeng Zhao

The paper presents a multidimensional model for nonlinear Markovian random walks that generalizes one we developed previously (Phys. Rev. E v.79, 011110, 2009) in order to describe the Levy type stochastic processes in terms of continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ihor Lubashevsky , Rudolf Friedrich , Andreas Heuer

We report on the emergence of scaling laws in the temporal evolution of the daily closing values of the S\&P 500 index prices and its modeling based on the L\'evy flights in two dimensions (2D). The efficacy of our proposed model is…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-03-16 Hediye Yarahmadi , Abbas Ali Saberi

L\'evy walks are continuous time random walks with spatio-temporal coupling of jump lengths and waiting times, often used to model superdiffusive spreading processes such as animals searching for food, tracer motion in weakly chaotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bartłomiej Dybiec , Karol Capała , Aleksei Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

Many studies on animal and human movement patterns report the existence of scaling laws and power-law distributions. Whereas a number of random walk models have been proposed to explain observations, in many situations individuals actually…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Boyer , O. Miramontes , H. Larralde

We review recent advances on the record statistics of strongly correlated time series, whose entries denote the positions of a random walk or a L\'evy flight on a line. After a brief survey of the theory of records for independent and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-21 Claude Godreche , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Scale invariant patterns have been found in different biological systems, in many cases resembling what physicists have found in other nonbiological systems. Here we describe the foraging patterns of free-ranging spider monkeys (Ateles…