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The macroscopic spreading and mixing of solute plumes in saturated porous media is ultimately controlled by processes operating at the pore scale. Whilst the conventional picture of pore-scale mechanical dispersion and molecular diffusion…

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Giant diffusion, where the diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle in a periodic potential with an external force is significantly enhanced by the external force, is a non-trivial non-equilibrium phenomenon. We propose a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Kento Iida , Andreas Dechant , Takuma Akimoto

Chemical master equation plays an important role to describe the time evolution of homogeneous chemical system. In addition to the reaction process, it is also accompanied by physical diffusion of the reactants in complex system that is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Hong Zhang , Guohua Li

We study the statistical properties of the convex hull of a planar run-and-tumble particle (RTP), also known as the "persistent random walk", where the particle/walker runs ballistically between tumble events at which it changes its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-25 Alexander K Hartmann , Satya N Majumdar , Hendrik Schawe , Grégory Schehr

Continuous time random walks have been developed as a straightforward generalisation of classical random walk processes. Some 10 years ago, Fogedby introduced a continuous representation of these processes by means of a set of Langevin…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Kleinhans , R. Friedrich

The propagation of an initially localized perturbation via an interacting many-particle Hamiltonian dynamics is investigated. We argue that the propagation of the perturbation can be captured by the use of a continuous-time random walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-11 V. Zaburdaev , S. Denisov , P. Hanggi

Self-activation coupled to a transport mechanism results in traveling waves that describe polymerization reactions, forest fires, tumor growth, and even the spread of epidemics. Diffusion is a simple and commonly used model of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-06 Keisuke Ishihara , Ashish B. George , Ryan Cornelius , Kirill S. Korolev

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

Continuous time random Walk model has been versatile analytical formalism for studying and modeling diffusion processes in heterogeneous structures, such as disordered or porous media. We are studying the continuous limits of Heterogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-23 Liubov Tupikina

Random walks in random environments (RWRE) model transport in quenched disorder, incorporating spatial heterogeneity, trapping, random drift, and random geometry. This paper summarizes discrete and continuous time formulations, identifies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Hazel Brookfield , Wei Zhou , Ian Weatherby

Continuous time quantum walks (CTQW) do not necessarily perform better than their classical counterparts, the continuous time random walks (CTRW). For one special graph, where a recent analysis showed that in a particular direction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oliver Muelken , Alexander Blumen

In this paper we present analytical and random walk based solutions to diffusion in semi-permeable layered media with varying diffusivity. We propose a new random walk transit model (hybrid model) based on treating the membrane permeability…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Ignasi Alemany , Jan N. Rose , Jérôme Garnier-Brun , Andrew D. Scott , Denis J. Doorly

The continuous time random walk (CTRW) model exhibits a non-ergodic phase when the average waiting time diverges. Using an analytical approach for the non-biased and the uniformly biased CTRWs, and numerical simulations for the CTRW in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Golan Bel , Eli Barkai

We theoretically study the transport properties of self-propelled particles on complex structures, such as motor proteins on filament networks. A general master equation formalism is developed to investigate the persistent motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi , Igor M. Sokolov , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

The Continuous-Time Random Walk (CTRW) formalism can be adapted to encompass stochastic processes with memory. In this article we will show how the random combination of two different unbiased CTRWs can give raise to a process with clear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 Miquel Montero

Above two dimensions, diffusion of a particle in a medium with quenched random traps is believed to be well-described by the annealed continuous time random walk (CTRW). We propose an approximate expression for the first-passage-time (FPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-05 Liang Luo , Lei-Han Tang

Standard Reaction-Diffusion (RD) systems are characterized by infinite velocities and no persistence in the movement of individuals, two conditions that are violated when considering living organisms. Here we consider a discrete particle…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Davide Vergni , Stefano Berti , Angelo Vulpiani , Massimo Cencini

Continuous-time random walks are generalisations of random walks frequently used to account for the consistent observations that many molecules in living cells undergo anomalous diffusion, i.e. subdiffusion. Here, we describe the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Hugues Berry , Thomas Lepoutre , Álvaro Mateos González

The process of diffusion is the most elementary stochastic transport process. Brownian motion, the representative model of diffusion, played a important role in the advancement of scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, biology and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-11 Alexandre Bovet

We investigate aging continuous time random walks (ACTRW), introduced by Monthus and Bouchaud [{\em J. Phys. A} {\bf 29}, 3847 (1996)]. Statistical behaviors of the displacement of the random walker ${\bf r}={\bf r}(t) - {\bf r}(0)$ in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eli Barkai , Yuan-Chung Cheng