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We report a new result concerning the dynamics of an initially localized wave packet in quantum nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattices with a disordered potential. A class of nonlinear lattices with subquadratic power nonlinearity is considered.…

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We study far from equilibrium transport of a periodically driven inertial Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential. As detected recently for a SQUID ratchet dynamics (Spiechowicz J. & Luczka J. Phys. Rev. E 91, 062104 (2015)), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Strong anomalous diffusion phenomena are often observed in complex physical and biological systems, which are characterized by the nonlinear spectrum of exponents $q\nu(q)$ by measuring the absolute $q$-th moment $\langle |x|^q\rangle$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

Diffusion in cell membranes is not just simple two-dimensional Brownian motion, but typically depends on the timescale of the observation. The physical origins of this anomalous sub-diffusion are unresolved, and model systems capable of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 H. L. E. Coker , M. R. Cheetham , D. R. Kattnig , Y. J. Wang , S. Garcia-Manyes , M. I. Wallace

In this work we propose an electronic L\'evy flight device, analogous to a recent optical realization. To that end, we investigate the transmission of electrons in graphene nanoribbons in the presence of circular electrostatic clusters,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Diego B. Fonseca , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Anderson L. R. Barbosa

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

Recent advances in submicrometer technology have made it possible to confine the two-dimensional electron gas into high-mobility semi-conductor heterostructures. Such structure with a lattice of electron-depleted circular obstacles are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shiro Kawabata

The L\'evy-Lorentz gas describes the motion of a particle on the real line in the presence of a random array of scattering points, whose distances between neighboring points are heavy-tailed i.i.d. random variables with finite mean. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Marco Zamparo

Turbulent transport near the X-point of a large tokamak is examined using local, gradient-driven simulations that determine the saturated plasma profiles. The distribution of a representative set of particle tracers evolving within these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Fabio Moretti , Francesco Cianfrani , Nakia Carlevaro , Giovanni Montani

Nanoscale diffusion at the interfaces in multilayers plays a vital role in controlling their physical properties for a variety of applications. In the present work depth-dependent interdiffusion in a Si/Fe/Si trilayer has been studied with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ajay Gupta , Dileep Kumar , Vaishali Phatak

Molecular dynamics and parallel-replica dynamics simulations are applied to investigate the atomic structures and diffusion processes at {\text{Al}\{111\}}\parallel{\text{Si}}\{111\} interphase boundaries constructed by simulated vapor…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Yang Li , Raj K. Koju , Yuri Mishin

Spatial spread of minority carriers produced by optical excitation in semiconductors is usually well described by a diffusion equation. The classical diffusion process can be viewed as a result of a random walk of particles in which every…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-14 Arsen Subashiev , Serge Luryi

We investigate front propagation in a reacting particle system in which particles perform scale-free random walks known as Levy flights. The system is described by a fractional generalization of a reaction-diffusion equation. We focus on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Brockmann , L. Hufnagel

The use of reaction-diffusion models rests on the key assumption that the underlying diffusive process is Gaussian. However, a growing number of studies have pointed out the prevalence of anomalous diffusion, and there is a need to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. del-Castillo-Negrete , B. A. Carreras , V. E. Lynch

Diffusion and anomalous diffusion are widely observed and used to study movement across organisms, resulting in extensive use of the mean and mean-squared displacement (MSD). However, these measures - corresponding to specific displacement…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Ohad Vilk , Motti Charter , Sivan Toledo , Eli Barkai , Ran Nathan

Diffusiophoresis, a ubiquitous phenomenon that induces particle transport whenever solute concentration gradients are present, was recently observed in the context of microsystems and shown to strongly impact colloidal transport (patterning…

We experimentally investigate the transmission of light by dense atomic vapor. The light propagating in dense atomic vapor can be modeled as a L\'evy flight random walk. For such system, the step-length distribution can be modeled as…

The evolution of infinitesimal, localized perturbations is investigated in a one-dimensional diatomic gas of hard-point particles (HPG) and thereby connected to energy diffusion. As a result, a Levy walk description, which was so far…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Cipriani , S. Denisov , A. Politi

In cell membranes, proteins and lipids diffuse in a highly crowded and heterogeneous landscape, where aggregates and dense domains of proteins or lipids obstruct the path of diffusing molecules. In general, hindered motion gives rise to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-16 Margaret R. Horton , Felix Höfling , Joachim O. Rädler , Thomas Franosch