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The fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which contains a variable diffusion coefficient, is discussed and solved. It corresponds to the L\'evy flights in a nonhomogeneous medium. For the case with the linear drift, the solution is stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-09 Tomasz Srokowski

We investigate the non-Langevin relative of the L\'{e}vy-driven Langevin random system, under an assumption that both systems share a common (asymptotic, stationary, steady-state) target pdf. The relaxation to equilibrium in the fractional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-22 P. Garbaczewski , M. Zaba

We determine the solution of the fractional spatial diffusion equation in n-dimensional Euclidean space for a "free" particle by computing the corresponding propagator. We employ both the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian approaches which produce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Agapitos Hatzinikitas

Fractional Levy motion (fLm) is the natural generalization of fractional Brownian motion in the context of self-similar stochastic processes and stable probability distributions. In this paper we give an explicit derivation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan Calvo , Raul Sanchez , Benjamin A. Carreras

Stimulated by experimental progress in high energy physics and astrophysics, the unification of relativistic and stochastic concepts has re-attracted considerable interest during the past decade. Focusing on the framework of special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-13 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Hänggi

The Fractional Langevin Equation (FLE) describes a non-Markovian Generalized Brownian Motion with long time persistence (superdiffusion), or anti-persistence (subdiffusion) of both velocity-velocity correlations, and position increments. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-11 P. Siegle , I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

Overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. On top of translational and rotational diffusion, in the context of the presented model, the "active" particle is driven along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Borge ten Hagen , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

L\'{e}vy walk is a practical model and has wide applications in various fields. Here we focus on the effect of an external constant force on the L\'{e}vy walk with the exponent of the power-law distributed flight time $\alpha\in(0,2)$. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yao Chen , Xudong Wang , Weihua Deng

We demonstrate that the Fokker-Planck equation can be generalized into a 'Fractional Fokker-Planck' equation, i.e. an equation which includes fractional space differentiations, in order to encompass the wide class of anomalous diffusions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V. Yanovsky , A. V. Chechkin , D. Schertzer , A. V. Tour

A combined dynamics consisting of Brownian motion and L\'evy flights is exhibited by a variety of biological systems performing search processes. Assessing the search reliability of ever locating the target and the search efficiency of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-15 V. V. Palyulin , A. V. Chechkin , R. Klages , R. Metzler

When is it possible to interpret a given Markov process as a L\'evy-like process? Since the class of L\'evy processes can be defined by the relation between transition probabilities and convolutions, the answer to this question lies in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Rúben Sousa , Manuel Guerra , Semyon Yakubovich

Levy walks define a fundamental concept in random walk theory which allows one to model diffusive spreading that is faster than Brownian motion. They have many applications across different disciplines. However, so far the derivation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-08 J. P. Taylor-King , R. Klages , S. Fedotov , R. A. Van Gorder

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

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

Truncated Levy flights are stochastic processes which display a crossover from a heavy-tailed Levy behavior to a faster decaying probability distribution function (pdf). Putting less weight on long flights overcomes the divergence of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 I. M. Sokolov , A. V. Chechkin , J. Klafter

The non-Markovian continuous-time random walk model, featuring fat-tailed waiting times and narrow distributed displacements with a non-zero mean, is a well studied model for anomalous diffusion. Using an analytical approach, we recently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-18 Wanli Wang , Eli Barkai

Brownian motion is widely used as a paradigmatic model of diffusion in equilibrium media throughout the physical, chemical, and biological sciences. However, many real world systems, particularly biological ones, are intrinsically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-04 Kiyoshi Kanazawa , Tomohiko G. Sano , Andrea Cairoli , Adrian Baule

The score function for the diffusion process, also known as the gradient of the log-density, is a basic concept to characterize the probability flow with important applications in the score-based diffusion generative modelling and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yuanfei Huang , Chengyu Liu , Xiang Zhou

Levy flights are random walks in which the probability distribution of the step sizes is fat-tailed. Levy spatial diffusion has been observed for a collection of ultra-cold Rb atoms and single Mg+ ions in an optical lattice. Using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-28 E. Barkai , E. Aghion , D. A. Kessler

The barrier-crossing event for superdiffusion characterized by symmetric L\'{e}vy flights is analyzed. Starting from the fractional Fokker-Planck equation, we derive an integro-differential equation along with the necessary conditions to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-13 A. A. Dubkov , C. Guarcello , B. Spagnolo