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The aim of this paper is to analyze a class of random motions which models the motion of a particle on the real line with random velocity and subject to the action of the friction. The speed randomly changes when a Poissonian event occurs.…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Alessandro De Gregorio

A formally exact relation is derived which connects thermodynamically non-equilibrium evolution of gas density distribution after its arbitrary strong spatially non-uniform perturbation and evolution of many-particle correlations between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-01 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

The BBGKY hierarchy of equations for a particle interacting with an ideal gas is investigated. Principal properties of its solutions are disclosed, as exact identities which connect probability distribution of path of the particle, its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-18 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

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

The motion of a particle is studied in a random space-time. It is assumed that the velocity is small enough for the non-relativistic approximation to be valid. The randomness of the metric induces a diffusion in coordinate space. Hence it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emilio Santos

A numerical experiment of ideal stochastic motion of a particle subject to conservative forces and Gaussian noise reveals that the path probability depends exponentially on action. This distribution implies a fundamental principle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-16 Qiuping A. Wang , Aziz El Kaabouchi

In this work, the short-time dynamics of simple liquid is explored both analytically and numerically with the focus on the interplay between the density fluctuations in a volume surrounding a chosen particle and its random walk motion. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Eugene B. Postnikov

We study the relaxation of a test particle immersed in a bath of field particles interacting via weak long-range forces. To order 1/N in the $N\to +\infty$ limit, the velocity distribution of the test particle satisfies a Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. H. Chavanis

Diffusion-coagulation can be simply described by a dynamic where particles perform a random walk on a lattice and coalesce with probability unity when meeting on the same site. Such processes display non-equilibrium properties with strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-13 L. Turban , J. -Y. Fortin

We present a molecular dynamics and kinetic theory study of granular material, modeled by inelastic hard disks, fluidized by a random driving force. The focus is on collisional averages and short distance correlations in the non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Pagonabarraga , E. Trizac , T. P. C. van Noije , M. H. Ernst

The L\'evy walk process with rests is discussed. The jumping time is governed by an $\alpha$-stable distribution with $\alpha>1$ while a waiting time distribution is Poissonian and involves a position-dependent rate which reflects a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

Diffusivity in some soft matter and biological systems changes with time, called the fluctuating diffusivity. In this work, we propose a novel origin for fluctuating diffusivity based on stochastic simulations of binary gas mixtures. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-01 Fumiaki Nakai , Yuichi Masubuchi , Yuya Doi , Takato Ishida , Takashi Uneyama

We consider the motion of a particle governed by a weakly random Hamiltonian flow. We identify temporal and spatial scales on which the particle trajectory converges to a spatial Brownian motion. The main technical issue in the proof is to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Komorowski , L. Ryzhik

We present molecular dynamics simulations of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture at temperatures below the kinetic glass transition. The ``mobility'' of a particle is characterized by the amplitude of its fluctuation around its average position.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Katharina Vollmayr-Lee , Walter Kob , Kurt Binder , Annette Zippelius

We study the heterogeneous dynamics of attractive colloidal particles close to the gel transition using confocal microscopy experiments combined with a theoretical statistical analysis. We focus on single particle dynamics and show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-25 Pinaki Chaudhuri , Yongxiang Gao , Ludovic Berthier , Maria Kilfoil , Walter Kob

The horizontal dynamics of a bouncing ball interacting with an irregular surface is investigated and is found to demonstrate behavior analogous to a random walk. Its stochastic character is substantiated by the calculation of a permutation…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-15 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

A kicking sequence of the atom optics kicked rotor at quantum resonance can be interpreted as a quantum random walk in momentum space. We show how to steer such a random walk by applying a random sequence of intensities and phases of the…

We solve a model of sluggish stochastic motion in which a Brownian particle diffuses with a diffusion coefficient that decays algebraically with the distance to the origin, as $|x|^{-\alpha}$. Additionally, the particle resets with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-03 Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

The 1/f-noise is considered which has no relation to long-lasting processes but originates from the same dynamical mechanisms as what are responsible for the loss of memory, fast relaxation and usual shot noise. The universal long-range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

An impact of particles' roughness on the self-diffusion coefficient in granular gases is investigated. For a simplified collision model where the normal and tangential restitution coefficients are assumed to be constant we develop an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-19 Anna Bodrova , Nikolai Brilliantov