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We investigate through a Generalized Langevin formalism the phenomenon of anomalous diffusion for asymptotic times, and we generalized the concept of the diffusion exponent. A method is proposed to obtain the diffusion coefficient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 R. M. S. Ferreira , M. V. S. Santos , C. C. Donato , J. S. Andrade , F. A. Oliveira

The inversion theorem and convolution theorem of the conformable fractional Laplace transforms are developed. All the elementary properties of the classical Laplace transform are extended to the conformable fractional transform, and using…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Somnath Sarate , Anil Khairnar , Krishnat Masalkar

We investigate the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements for particle diffusion in a simple model for disordered media by assuming that the local diffusivity is both fluctuating in time and has a deterministic average growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. G. Cherstvy , R. Metzler

We study a simple model of a random walker in d dimensions moving in the presence of a local heterogeneous attracting factor expressed in terms of an assigned space-dependent "attractiveness function", a situation frequently encountered in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-21 Hardi Veermäe , Marco Patriarca

We consider the propagation of galactic cosmic rays under assumption that the interstellar medium is a fractal one. An anomalous diffusion equation in terms of fractional derivatives is used to describe of cosmic ray propagation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Lagutin , V. V. Uchaikin

Both electromagnetic shock-waves and gravitational waves propagate with the speed of light. If they carry significant energy-momentum, this will change the properties of the space-time they propagate through. This can be described in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-24 Bence Racskó , László Árpád Gergely

The advection-diffusion equation is studied via a global Lagrangian coordinate transformation. The metric tensor of the Lagrangian coordinates couples the dynamical system theory rigorously into the solution of this class of partial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Z. Tang , A. H. Boozer

Local diffusivity of a protein depends crucially on the conformation, and the conformational fluctuations are often non-Markovian. Here, we investigate the Langevin equation with non-Markovian fluctuating diffusivity, where the fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-26 Mutsumi Kimura , Takuma Akimoto

The diffusion limit of the linear Boltzmann equation with a strong magnetic field is performed. The giration period of particles around the magnetic field is assumed to be much smaller than the collision relaxation time which is supposed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Naoufel Ben Abdallah , Raymond El Hajj

We investigate the transformation of the distribution function in the relativistic case, a problem of interest in plasma when particles with high (relativistic) velocities come into play as for instance in radiation belt physics, in the…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 R. A. Treumann , R. Nakamura , W. Baumjohann

A dynamical treatment of Markovian diffusion is presented and several applications discussed. The stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics is considered within this framework. A model for Brownian movement which includes second order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Davidson

Bulk matter produced in heavy ion collisions has multiple conserved quantum numbers like baryon number, strangeness and electric charge. The diffusion process of these charges can be described by a diffusion matrix describing the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Arpan Das , Hiranmaya Mishra , Ranjita K. Mohapatra

A new model to describe the dynamics of particles undergoing diffusion in general relativity is proposed. The evolution of the particle system is described by a Fokker-Planck equation without friction on the tangent bundle of spacetime. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Simone Calogero

For a substance diffusing on a curved surface, we obtain an explicit relation valid for very small values of the time, between the local concentration, the diffusion coefficient, the intrinsic spatial curvature and the time. We recover the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Balakrishnan

The distribution of radiation is investigated for the modeless laser having a multilobe mirror with the lobes (planes) inclined by small angles to optical axis. It is shown that change of the direction resulting from many passages of a ray…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael B. Mensky , Alexander V. Yurkin

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

Variable order space-fractional diffusion equation derived as an important model to describe complex anomalous diffusion phenomenon. In this article, well-posedness theory has been constructed for equations with the "Dirichlet" or the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Junxiong Jia , Jigen Peng

We use Langevin dynamics simulations to study the mass diffusion problem across two adjacent porous layers of different transport property. At the interface between the layers, we impose the Kedem-Katchalsky (KK) interfacial boundary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Oded Farago , Giuseppe Pontrelli

Brownian motion of free particles on curved surfaces is studied by means of the Langevin equation written in Riemann normal coordinates. In the diffusive regime we find the same physical behavior as the one described by the diffusion…

We introduce and analyze a model for the transport of particles or energy in extended lattice systems. The dynamics of the model acts on a discrete phase space at discrete times but has nonetheless some of the characteristic properties of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Raphael Lefevere