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We study a random walk problem on the hierarchical network which is a scale-free network grown deterministically. The random walk problem is mapped onto a dynamical Ising spin chain system in one dimension with a nonlocal spin update rule,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jae Dong Noh , Heiko Rieger

Above two dimensions, diffusion of a particle in a medium with quenched random traps is believed to be well-described by the annealed continuous time random walk (CTRW). We propose an approximate expression for the first-passage-time (FPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-05 Liang Luo , Lei-Han Tang

In this paper, we present a simple model of scale-free networks that incorporates both preferential & random attachment and anti-preferential & random deletion at each time step. We derive the degree distribution analytically and show that…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Dinghua Shi , Xiang Zhu , Liming Liu

Various real-life networks exhibit degree correlations and heterogeneous structure, with the latter being characterized by power-law degree distribution $P(k)\sim k^{-\gamma}$, where the degree exponent $\gamma$ describes the extent of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-31 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yichao Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Ming Yin , Jihong Guan

Random walks on discrete lattices are fundamental models that form the basis for our understanding of transport and diffusion processes. For a single random walker on complex networks, many properties such as the mean first passage time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-21 Aanjaneya Kumar , M. S. Santhanam

We introduce a general framework, applicable to a broad class of random walks on networks, that quantifies the response of the mean first-passage time to a target node to a local perturbation of the network, both in the context of attacks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-28 Vincent Tejedor , Olivier Bénichou , Raphael Voituriez , Michel Moreau

We study numerically the mean access times for random walks on hybrid disordered structures formed by embedding scale-free networks into regular lattices, considering different transition rates for steps across lattice bonds ($F$) and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Julián Candia , Paul E. Parris , V. M. Kenkre

In this paper, we study random walks on a small-world scale-free network, also called as pseudofractal scale-free web (PSFW), and analyze the volatilities of first passage time (FPT) and first return time (FRT) by using the variance and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-21 Junhao Peng

Using numerical simulations and scaling theory we study the dynamics of the world-wide Web from the growth rules recently proposed in Ref. [1] with appropriate parameters. We demonstrate that the emergence of power-law behavior of the out-…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bosiljka Tadic

The random walk process underlies the description of a large number of real world phenomena. Here we provide the study of random walk processes in time varying networks in the regime of time-scale mixing; i.e. when the network connectivity…

Tracking the movement of tracer particles has long been a strategy for uncovering complex structures. Here, we study discrete-time random walks on finite Cayley trees to infer key parameters such as tree depth and geometric bias toward the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Fabian H. Kreten , Ludger Santen , Reza Shaebani

Unlike the well-studied models of growing networks, where the dominant dynamics consist of insertions of new nodes and connections, and rewiring of existing links, we study {\em ad hoc} networks, where one also has to contend with rapid and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Nima Sarshar , Vwani Roychowdhury

We consider a mortal random walker on a family of hierarchical graphs in the presence of some trap sites. The configuration comprising the graph, the starting point of the walk, and the locations of the trap sites is taken to be exactly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-19 V. Balakrishnan , E. Abad , T. Abil , J. J. Kozak

We extend the random walk framework to include compounded steps, providing first-passage time (FPT) properties for a new class of superdiffusive processes, which are governed by the space-fractional spectral Fokker-Planck equation. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang

The probability distribution of number of ties of an individual in a social network follows a scale-free power-law. However, how this distribution arises has not been conclusively demonstrated in direct analyses of people's actions in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-25 Lev Muchnik , Sen Pei , Lucas C. Parra , Saulo D. S. Reis , Jose S. Andrade, , Shlomo Havlin , Hernan A. Makse

In this work, we investigate the temporal evolution of the degree of a given vertex in a network by mapping the dynamics into a random walk problem in degree space. We analyze when the degree approximates a pre-established value through a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-12 F. Ampuero , M. O. Hase

We study diffusion with a bias towards a target node in networks. This problem is relevant to efficient routing strategies in emerging communication networks like optical networks. Bias is represented by a probability $p$ of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-05 Loukas Skarpalezos , Aristotelis Kittas , Panos Argyrakis , Reuven Cohen , Shlomo Havlin

We study the realizability of scale free-networks with a given degree sequence, showing that the fraction of realizable sequences undergoes two first-order transitions at the values 0 and 2 of the power-law exponent. We substantiate this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-04 Charo I. Del Genio , Thilo Gross , Kevin E. Bassler

Here, we propose a class of scale-free networks $G(t;m)$ with some intriguing properties, which can not be simultaneously held by all the theoretical models with power-law degree distribution in the existing literature, including (i)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Fei Ma , Xiaomin Wang , Ping Wang

The return-to-origin probability and the first passage time distribution are essential quantities for understanding transport phenomena in diverse systems. The behaviors of these quantities typically depend on the spectral dimension $d_s$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-12 S. Hwang , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng