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We propose a novel approach to nonequilibrium real-time dynamics of quantum impurities models coupled to biased non-interacting leads, such as those relevant to quantum transport in nanoscale molecular devices. The method is based on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Marco Schiro` , Michele Fabrizio

Restrictions to molecular motion by barriers (membranes) are ubiquitous in biological tissues, porous media and composite materials. A major challenge is to characterize the microstructure of a material or an organism nondestructively using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-11 Dmitry S. Novikov , Els Fieremans , Jens H. Jensen , Joseph A. Helpern

Recent laboratory experiments on solute migration in composite porous columns have shown an asymmetry in the solute arrival time upon reversal of the flow direction, which is not explained by current paradigms of transport. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-20 Andrea Cortis , Andrea Zoia

This paper concerns the propagation of particles through a quenched random medium. In the one- and two-dimensional models considered, the local dynamics is given by expanding circle maps and hyperbolic toral automorphisms, respectively. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Tapio Simula , Mikko Stenlund

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

In this paper, a useful reinterpretation of the city as a porous medium justifies the application of well-known models on fluid dynamics to develop a multi-model study of urban air pollution due to traffic flow in a large city. Thus, to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 N. Garcia-Chan , L. J. Alvarez-Vazquez , A. Martinez , M. E. Vazquez-Mendez

We propose two nonlinear random walk models which are suitable for the analysis of both chemotaxis and anomalous transport. We derive the balance equations for the population density for the case when the transition rate for a random walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-22 Sergei Fedotov

Continuous-time random walks offer powerful coarse-grained descriptions of transport processes. We here microscopically derive such a model for a Brownian particle diffusing in a deep periodic potential. We determine both the waiting-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-21 Andreas Dechant , Farina Kindermann , Artur Widera , Eric Lutz

Random walks serve as important tools for studying complex network structures, yet their dynamics in cases where transition probabilities are not static remain under explored and poorly understood. Here we study nonlinear random walks that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-14 Digesh Chitrakar , Per Sebastian Skardal

Random walkers characterized by random positions and random velocities lead to normal diffusion. A random walk was originally proposed by Einstein to model Brownian motion and to demonstrate the existence of atoms and molecules. Such a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Daniel Escaff , Raul Toral , Christian Van den Broeck , Katja Lindenberg

We consider a basic one-dimensional model of diffusion which allows to obtain a diversity of diffusive regimes whose speed depends on the moments of the per-site trapping time. This model is closely related to the continuous time random…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Elena Floriani , Ricardo Lima , Edgardo Ugalde

The simultaneous presence of liquid and gas in porous media increases flow heterogeneity compared to saturated flows. However, so far the impact of saturation on flow statistics and transport dynamics remained unclear. Here, we develop a…

We introduce the pushy random walk, where a walker can push multiple obstacles, thereby penetrating large distances in environments with finite obstacle density. This process provides a minimal model for experimentally observed interactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ofek Lauber Bonomo , Itamar Shitrit , Shlomi Reuveni , Sidney Redner

Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation is a powerful tool for studying the equilibrium properties of matter. In complex condensed-phase systems, however, it is difficult to design Monte Carlo moves with high acceptance probabilities that also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-27 Jerome P. Nilmeier , Gavin E. Crooks , David D. L. Minh , John D. Chodera

We study dynamic random conductance models on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ in which the environment evolves as a reversible Markov process that is stationary under space-time shifts. We prove under a second moment assumption that two conditionally…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Noah Halberstam , Tom Hutchcroft

We introduce a model of interacting Random Walk, whose hopping amplitude depends on the number of walkers/particles on the link. The mesoscopic counterpart of such a microscopic dynamics is a diffusing system whose diffusivity depends on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-01 E. Agliari , M. Casartelli , A. Vezzani

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

The nonlocal porous medium equation considered in this paper is a degenerate nonlinear evolution equation involving a space pseudo-differential operator of fractional order. This space-fractional equation admits an explicit, nonnegative,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Alessandro De Gregorio

This work presents a data-driven framework for multi-scale parametrization of velocity-dependent dispersive transport in porous media. Pore-scale flow and transport simulations are conducted on periodic pore geometries, and volume-averaging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Edward Coltman , Martin Schneider , Rainer Helmig

In this article we address the problem of the nonlinear interaction of subdiffusive particles. We introduce the random walk model in which statistical characteristics of a random walker such as escape rate and jump distribution depend on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sergei Fedotov