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The escape from a potential well is an archetypal problem in the study of stochastic dynamical systems, representing real-world situations from chemical reactions to leaving an established home range in movement ecology. Concurrently,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Karol Capala , Amin Padash , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Babak Shokri , Ralf Metzler , Bartlomiej Dybiec

We consider SDEs driven by multiplicative pure jump L\'{e}vy noises, where L\'evy processes are not necessarily comparable to $\alpha$-stable-like processes. By assuming that the SDE has a unique solution, we obtain gradient estimates of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Mingjie Liang , Jian Wang

We solve a problem of non-convex stochastic optimisation with help of simulated annealing of Levy flights of a variable stability index. The search of the ground state of an unknown potential is non-local due to big jumps of the Levy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Pavlyukevich

We prove smoothing properties of nonlocal transition semigroups associated to a class of stochastic differential equations (SDE) driven by additive pure-jump L\'evy noise. In particular, we assume that the L\'evy process driving the SDE is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-15 Seiichiro Kusuoka , Carlo Marinelli

We investigate the dynamic impact of heterogeneous environments on superdiffusive random walks known as L\'evy flights. We devote particular attention to the relative weight of source and target locations on the rates for spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Dirk Brockmann

L\'evy noise influences diverse non-equilibrium systems across scales, including quantum devices, active biological matter, and financial markets. While such noise is pervasive, its overall impact on activated transitions between metastable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-25 Shenglan Yuan

Numerical evidence of directed transport driven by symmetric Levy noise in time-independent ratchet potentials in the absence of an external tilting force is presented. The results are based on the numerical solution of the fractional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. del-Castillo-Negrete , V. Yu. Gonchar , A. V. Chechkin

We consider a class of L\'evy-type processes derived via a Doob-transform from L\'evy processes conditioned by a control function called potential. These processes have position-dependent and generally unbounded components, with stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Kamil Kaleta , József Lőrinczi

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 study the existence and uniqueness, the regularity, and the long-time behavior of strong solutions to stochastic curve shortening flow driven by a transport-type pure jump L\'evy noise. To obtain the existence and uniqueness of strong…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Xiaotian Ge , Shijie Shang , Weina Wu , Jianliang Zhai

We study the ergodic properties of a class of multidimensional piecewise Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with jumps, which contains the limit of the queueing processes arising in multiclass many-server queues with heavy-tailed arrivals and/or…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis , Guodong Pang , Nikola Sandrić

A jumping process, defined in terms of jump size distribution and waiting time distribution, is presented. The jumping rate depends on the process value. The process, which is Markovian and stationary, relaxes to an equilibrium and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-20 T. Srokowski , A. Kaminska

L\'evy walks (LWs) are spatiotemporally coupled random-walk processes describing superdiffusive heat conduction in solids, propagation of light in disordered optical materials, motion of molecular motors in living cells, or motion of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Pengbo Xu , Tian Zhou , Ralf Metzler , Weihua Deng

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

The search for hidden targets is a fundamental problem in many areas of science, engineering, and other fields. Studies of search processes often adopt a probabilistic framework, in which a searcher randomly explores a spatial domain for a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Sean D Lawley

The escape from a given domain is one of the fundamental problems in statistical physics and the theory of stochastic processes. Here, we explore properties of the escape of an inertial particle driven by L\'evy noise from a bounded domain,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec

Phase transitions and effects of external noise on many body systems are one of the main topics in physics. In mean field coupled nonlinear dynamical stochastic systems driven by Brownian noise, various types of phase transitions including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Akihisa Ichiki , Masatoshi Shiino

The {\alpha}-stable L\'evy process, commonly used to describe L\'evy flight, is characterized by discontinuous jumps and is widely used to model anomalous transport phenomena. In this study, we investigate the associated exit problem and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Minglei Yang , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Guannan Zhang

In this work, we investigate positive recurrent L\'evy diffusions driven by appropriately scaled Brownian motion and $\alpha$-stable process (with $1<\alpha<2$) in the small noise regime. Supposing that in the vanishing noise limit, our…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Sumith Reddy Anugu , Siva R. Athreya , Vivek S. Borkar

The non-Markovian stochastic dynamics involving Levy flights and a potential in the form of a harmonic and non-linear oscillator is discussed. The subordination technique is applied and the memory effects, which are nonhomogeneous, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-21 Tomasz Srokowski