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In this work we show that under specific anomalous diffusion conditions, chemical systems can produce well-ordered self-similar concentration patterns through a diffusion-driven instability. We also find spiral patterns and patterns with…

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Anomalous transport in a tilted periodic potential is investigated numerically within the framework of the fractional Fokker-Planck dynamics via the underlying CTRW. An efficient numerical algorithm is developed which is applicable for an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , G. Schmid , P. Hänggi

Consider a chaotic dynamical system generating Brownian motion-like diffusion. Consider a second, non-chaotic system in which all particles localize. Let a particle experience a random combination of both systems by sampling between them in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 Y. Sato , R. Klages

Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) allows for the direct measurement of the squared strain-rate tensor. When combined with commonly available high-speed cameras, we show that DWS gives direct access to the spatio-temporal variations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-01 Enzo Francisco , Vincent Bouillaut , Tong Wu , Sébastien Aumaître

We show that for a weakly dense subset of the domain of attraction of a positive stable random variable of index $0<\alpha<1$($DOA\left(\alpha\right))$ the functional stable convergence is a time-changed renewal convergence of distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Ofer Busani

Anomalous diffusion has been widely observed by single particle tracking microscopy in complex systems such as biological cells. The resulting time series are usually evaluated in terms of time averages. Often anomalous diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stas Burov , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Eli Barkai

The basic conceptual picture and theoretical basis for development of transport equations in porous media are examined. The general form of the governing equations is derived for conservative chemical transport in heterogeneous geological…

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The Semi-Markov property of Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRWs) and their limit processes is utilized, and the probability distributions of the bivariate Markov process $(X(t),V(t))$ are calculated: $X(t)$ is a CTRW limit and $V(t)$ a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-20 G. Gill , P. Straka

The continuous time random walk (CTRW) model exhibits a non-ergodic phase when the average waiting time diverges. Using an analytical approach for the non-biased and the uniformly biased CTRWs, and numerical simulations for the CTRW in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Golan Bel , Eli Barkai

The Mean Square Displacement is a central tool in the analysis of Single Particle Tracking experiments, shedding light on various biophysical phenomena. Frequently, parameters are extracted by performing time-averages on single particle…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Eldad Kepten Irena Bronshtein , Yuval Garini

We address the problem of diffusion on a comb whose teeth display a varying length. Specifically, the length $\ell$ of each tooth is drawn from a probability distribution displaying the large-$\ell$ behavior $P(\ell) \sim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , A. Baumgaertner

We discuss the far-field spatio-temporal cross-correlations of waves multiple-scattered in a turbid medium in which is embedded a hidden heterogeneous region (inclusion) characterized by a distinct scatterer dynamics (as compared to the…

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The time dependency of the diffusion coefficient of particles in porous media is an efficient probe of their geometry. The analysis of this quantity, measured e.g. by nuclear magnetic resonance (PGSE-NMR), can provide rich information…

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In this letter, we characterize experimentally the diffusiophoretic motion of colloids and lambda- DNA toward higher concentration of solutes, using microfluidic technology to build spatially- and temporally-controlled concentration…

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Diffusion and anomalous diffusion are widely observed and used to study movement across organisms, resulting in extensive use of the mean and mean-squared displacement (MSD). However, these measures - corresponding to specific displacement…

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We consider a broad class of Continuous Time Random Walks with large fluctuations effects in space and time distributions: a random walk with trapping, describing subdiffusion in disordered and glassy materials, and a L\'evy walk process,…

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We present a theoretical and experimental study of light transport in disordered media with strongly heterogeneous distribution of scatterers formed via non-scattering regions. Step correlations induced by quenched disorder are found to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-03-05 Tomas Svensson , Kevin Vynck , Erik Adolfsson , Andrea Farina , Antonio Pifferi , Diederik S. Wiersma

Diffusive transport in many complex systems features a crossover between anomalous diffusion at short times and normal diffusion at long times. This behavior can be mathematically modeled by cutting off (tempering) beyond a mesoscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-15 Thomas Vojta , Zachary Miller , Samuel Halladay

We consider a simple linear reversible isomerization reaction A <--> B under subdiffusion described by continuous time random walks (CTRW). The reactants' transformations take place independently on the motion and are described by constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Sagues , V. P. Shkilev , I. M. Sokolov

Quantum walks constitute a versatile platform for simulating transport phenomena on discrete graphs including topological material properties while providing a high control over the relevant parameters at the same time. To experimentally…