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This paper derives the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation for a particle moving in potential by a randomly modulated dipole. The FP equation describes the anomalous diffusion observed in the companion paper [1] and breaks the conservation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 S. Katagiri , Y. Matsuo , Y. Matsuoka , A. Sugamoto

We investigate the dynamic behavior of optical vortices, or phase singularities, in random wavefields and demonstrate the direct experimental observation of the anomalous diffusion of optical vortices. The observed subdiffusion of optical…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jiaxing Gong , Qi Li , Jing Wang

Anomalous diffusion is discussed in the context of quantum Brownian motion with colored noise. It is shown that earlier results follow simply and directly from the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The limits on the long-time dependence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. W. Ford , R. F. O'Connell

We analyze the diffusion of a Brownian particle in a fluid under stationary flow. By using the scheme of non-equilibrium thermodynamics in phase space, we obtain the Fokker-Planck equation which is compared with others derived from kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 I. Santamaría-Holek , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubí

The unified description of diffusion processes that cross over from a ballistic behavior at short times to normal or anomalous diffusion (sub- or superdiffusion) at longer times is constructed on the basis of a non-Markovian generalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-26 Valery Ilyin , Itamar Procaccia , Anatoly Zagorodny

A Langevin equation with a special type of additive random source is considered. This random force presents a fractional order derivative of white noise, and leads to a power-law time behavior of the mean square displacement of a particle,…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Kobelev , E. Romanov

We investigate the bounds between normal or anomalous effective diffusion for inertial particles transported by parallel flows. The infrared behavior of the fluid kinetic-energy spectrum, i.e. the possible presence of long-range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-07 Marco Martins Afonso

The problem of anomalous diffusion in momentum space is considered for plasma-like systems on the basis of a new collision integral, which is appropriate for consideration of the probability transition function (PTF) with long tails in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger , W. Ebeling , G. J. F. van Heijst , P. P. J. M. Schram , I. M. Sokolov

We find for the first time the asymptotic representation of the solution to the space dependent variable order fractional diffusion and Fokker-Planck equations. We identify a new advection term that causes ultra-slow spatial aggregation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-14 Sergei Fedotov , Daniel Han

Deriving evolution equations accounting for both anomalous diffusion and reactions is notoriously difficult, even in the simplest cases. In contrast to normal diffusion, reaction kinetics cannot be incorporated into evolution equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-23 Sean D Lawley

The passive and active motion of micron-sized tracer particles in crowded liquids and inside living biological cells is ubiquitously characterised by "viscoelastic" anomalous diffusion, in which the increments of the motion feature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-05 Wei Wang , Flavio Seno , Igor M. Sokolov , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

Equation for anomalous diffusion in momentum space, recently obtained in the recent paper (S.A. Trigger, ArXiv 0907.2793 v1, [cond-matt. stat.-mech.], 16 July 2009) is solved for the stationary and non-stationary cases on basis of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-08 S. A. Trigger

The molecular motion in heterogeneous media displays anomalous diffusion by the mean-squared displacement $\langle X^2(t) \rangle = 2 D t^\alpha$. Motivated by experiments reporting populations of the anomalous diffusion parameters $\alpha$…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yann Lanoiselée , Gianni Pagnini , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

Anomalous diffusion phenomenon is an intriguing process that tracer diffusion presents in numerous complex systems. Current experimental and theoretical investigations have reported the emergence of random diffusivity scenarios accompanied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-19 M. A. F. dos Santos , L. Menon Junior , D. Cius

We discuss the dynamics of particles in one dimension in potentials that are random both in space and in time. The results are applied to recent optics experiments on Anderson localization, in which the transverse spreading of a beam is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-08-30 Yevgeny Krivolapov , Liad Levi , Shmuel Fishman , Mordechai Segev , Michael Wilkinson

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

We explain the ubiquity and extremely slow evolution of non gaussian out-of-equilibrium distributions for the Hamiltonian Mean-Field model, by means of traditional kinetic theory. Deriving the Fokker-Planck equation for a test particle, one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Freddy Bouchet , Thierry Dauxois

It is well known that on long time scales the behaviour of tracer particles diffusing in a cellular flow is effectively that of a Brownian motion. This paper studies the behaviour on "intermediate" time scales before diffusion sets in.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Gautam Iyer , Alexei Novikov

We investigate the diffusion of particles in an attractive one-dimensional potential that grows logarithmically for large $|x|$ using the Fokker-Planck equation. An eigenfunction expansion shows that the Boltzmann equilibrium density does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Dechant , E. Lutz , E. Barkai , D. A. Kessler

We demonstrate that the Fokker-Planck equation can be generalized into a 'Fractional Fokker-Planck' equation, i.e. an equation which includes fractional space differentiations, in order to encompass the wide class of anomalous diffusions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V. Yanovsky , A. V. Chechkin , D. Schertzer , A. V. Tour