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We introduce a L\'evy-Lorentz gas in which a light particle is scattered by static point scatterers arranged on a line. We investigate the case where the intervals between scatterers $\{\xi_i \}$ are independent random variables identically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Barkai , V. Fleurov , J. Klafter

We analyze random walk through fractal environments, embedded in 3-dimensional, permeable space. Particles travel freely and are scattered off into random directions when they hit the fractal. The statistical distribution of the flight…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Isliker , L. Vlahos

Recent experiments on the propagation of light over a distance L through a random packing of spheres with a power law distribution of radii (a socalled L\'evy glass) have found that the transmission probability T \propto 1/L^{\gamma} scales…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 C. W. Groth , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

L\'evy walk process is one of the most effective models to describe superdiffusion, which underlies some important movement patterns and has been widely observed in the micro and macro dynamics. From the perspective of random walk theory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-07 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

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

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 Flights are paradigmatic generalised random walk processes, in which the independent stationary increments---the "jump lengths"---are drawn from an $\alpha$-stable jump length distribution with long-tailed, power-law asymptote. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 A. Padash , A. V. Chechkin , B. Dybiec , I. Pavlyukevich , B. Shokri , R. Metzler

We study the transmission of random walkers through a finite-size inhomogeneous material with a quenched, long-range correlated distribution of scatterers. We focus on a finite one-dimensional structure where walkers undergo random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-22 Piercesare Bernabó , Raffaella Burioni , Stefano Lepri , Alessandro Vezzani

The recent realization of a "Levy glass" (a three-dimensional optical material with a Levy distribution of scattering lengths) has motivated us to analyze its one-dimensional analogue: A linear chain of barriers with independent spacings s…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-01-29 C. W. J. Beenakker , C. W. Groth , A. R. Akhmerov

Properties of random and fluctuating systems are often studied through the use of Gaussian distributions. However, in a number of situations, rare events have drastic consequences, which can not be explained by Gaussian statistics.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nicolas Mercadier , William Guerin , Martine Chevrollier , Robin Kaiser

L\'{e}vy walks are a particular type of continuous-time random walks which results in a super-diffusive spreading of an initially localized packet. The original one-dimensional model has a simple schematization that is based on starting a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yurii Bystrik , Sergey Denisov

The propagation of an initially localized perturbation via an interacting many-particle Hamiltonian dynamics is investigated. We argue that the propagation of the perturbation can be captured by the use of a continuous-time random walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-11 V. Zaburdaev , S. Denisov , P. Hanggi

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

We consider super-diffusive L\'evy walks in $d \geqslant 2$ dimensions when the duration of a single step, i.e., a ballistic motion performed by a walker, is governed by a power-law tailed distribution of infinite variance and finite mean.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Itzhak Fouxon , Sergey Denisov , Vasily Zaburdaev , Eli Barkai

L\'evy walks are continuous time random walks with spatio-temporal coupling of jump lengths and waiting times, often used to model superdiffusive spreading processes such as animals searching for food, tracer motion in weakly chaotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bartłomiej Dybiec , Karol Capała , Aleksei Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We investigate multiple scattering of near-resonant light in a Doppler-broadened atomic vapor. We experimentally characterize the length distribution of the steps between successive scattering events. The obtained power law is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Nicolas Mercadier , Martine Chevrollier , William Guerin , Robin Kaiser

Recent experiments (G. Ariel, et al., Nature Comm. 6, 8396 (2015)) revealed an intriguing behavior of swarming bacteria: they fundamentally change their collective motion from simple diffusion into a superdiffusive L\'{e}vy walk dynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Sergei Fedotov , Nickolay Korabel

Levy walk (LW) process has been used as a simple model for describing anomalous diffusion in which the mean squared displacement of the walker grows non-linearly with time in contrast to the diffusive motion described by simple random walks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Santanu Das , Anupam Kundu

Superdiffusion arises when complicated, correlated and noisy motion at the microscopic scale conspires to yield peculiar dynamics at the macroscopic scale. It ubiquitously appears in a variety of scenarios, spanning a broad range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Asaf Miron

We consider a persistent random walk on an inhomogeneous environment where the reflection probability depends only on the distance from the origin. Such an environment is the result of an average over all realizations of disorder of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-20 Mattia Radice , Manuele Onofri , Roberto Artuso , Giampaolo Cristadoro