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We investigate the quantum kicked rotor in resonance subjected to momentum measurements with a L\'evy waiting time distribution. We find that the system has a sub-ballistic behavior. We obtain an analytical expression for the exponent of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alejandro Romanelli

We study the ballistic L\'evy walk stemming from an infinite mean traveling time between collision events. Our study focuses on the density of spreading particles all starting from a common origin, which is limited by a `light' cone $-v_0…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-18 Wanli Wang , Marc Höll , Eli Barkai

The time-dependent barrier passage of a particle driven by the structured noise is studied in the field of a metastable potential. Quantities such as the probability of passing over the saddle point and transmission coefficient of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Chun-Yang Wang

Continuous-time random walks combining diffusive scattering and ballistic propagation on lattices model a class of L\'evy walks. The assumption that transitions in the scattering phase occur with exponentially-distributed waiting times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Giampaolo Cristadoro , Thomas Gilbert , Marco Lenci , David P. Sanders

Using a nonperturbative classical model for ionic motion through one-dimensional (1D) solids, we explore how thermal lattice vibrations affect ionic transport properties. Based on analytic and numerical calculations, we find that the mean…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Harshitra Mahalingam , Ben Andrew Olsen , Aleksandr Rodin

We investigate analytically the motion of underdamped particles subject to a deterministic periodic potential and a periodic temperature. Despite the fact that an underamped particle experiences the temperature oscillation many times in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. M. Blanter , M. Buttiker

We study the dynamics of the separation (gap) between a pair of interacting run and tumble particles (RTPs) moving in one dimension in the presence of additional thermal noise. On a ring geometry the distribution of the gap approaches a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Arghya Das , Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu

We analyze random walk through fractal environments, embedded in 3-dimensional, permeable space. Particles travel freely and are scattered off into random directions when they hit the fractal. The statistical distribution of the flight…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Isliker , L. Vlahos

L\'evy noise is a paradigmatic noise used to describe out-of-equilibrium systems. Typically, properties of L\'evy noise driven systems are very different from their Gaussian white noise driven counterparts. In particular, under action of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-17 Przemysław Pogorzelec , Bartłomiej Dybiec

We present a comprehensive account of directed transport in one-dimensional Hamiltonian systems with spatial and temporal periodicity. They can be considered as Hamiltonian ratchets in the sense that ensembles of particles can show directed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Schanz , Thomas Dittrich , Roland Ketzmerick

In search for mathematically tractable models of anomalous diffusion, we introduce a simple dynamical system consisting of a chain of coupled maps of the interval whose Lyapunov exponents vanish everywhere. The volume preserving property…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Lucia Salari , Lamberto Rondoni , Claudio Giberti

The transport of interacting Brownian particles in a periodic asymmetric (ratchet) substrate is studied numerically. In a zero-temperature regime, the system behaves as a reversible step motor, undergoing multiple sign reversals of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-31 Rogério M. da Silva , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Sérgio Coutinho

In this work we demonstrate single microparticle transport enabled by noise in a one dimensional optical lattice with periodic symmetric potentials and a small constant external force. The one dimensional lattice is implemented by six…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-23 Roberto de J. León-Montiel , Pedro A. Quinto-Su

A recent paper [Phys. Rev. E 87, 062114 (2013)] presents numerical simulations on a system exhibiting directed ratchet transport of a driven overdamped Brownian particle subjected to a spatially periodic, symmetric potential. The authors…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-02-18 Niurka R. Quintero , Renato Alvarez-Nodarse , José A. Cuesta

L\'evy flights constitute a broad class of random walks that occur in many fields of research, from animal foraging in biology, to economy to geophysics. The recent advent of L\'evy glasses allows to study L\'evy flights in controlled way…

A L\'evy random medium, in a given space, is a random point process where the distances between points, a.k.a. targets, are long-tailed. Random walks visiting the targets of a L\'evy random medium have been used to model many (physical,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Marco Lenci

The paper is devoted to the relationship between the continuous Markovian description of Levy flights developed previously and their equivalent representation in terms of discrete steps of a wandering particle, a certain generalization of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ihor Lubashevsky

In this work we study the transport properties of non-interacting overdamped particles, moving on tilted disordered potentials, subjected to Gaussian white noise. We give exact formulas for the drift and diffusion coefficients for the case…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-04 Raul Salgado-Garcia

We study Anderson localization of the classical lattice waves in a chain with mass impurities distributed randomly through a power-law relation $s^{-(1+\alpha)}$ with $ s $ as the distance between two successive impurities and $\alpha>0$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-10 Sepideh S. Zakeri , Stefano Lepri , Diederik S. Wiersma

We investigate the impact of external periodic potentials on superdiffusive random walks known as Levy flights and show that even strongly superdiffusive transport is substantially affected by the external field. Unlike ordinary random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Brockmann , T. Geisel