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The fact that galaxy distribution exhibits fractal properties is well established since twenty years. Nowadays, the controversy concerns the range of the fractal regime, the value of the fractal dimension and the eventual presence of a…

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We prove that the hierarchical fractal model recently proposed for describing the stretched polymers [A. N. Samukhin et al, Phys. Rev. Lett.{\bf 78}, 326(1997)] is equivalent to a one-dimensional chain with hierarchical aperiodic structure.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Chen-Ping Zhu , Shi-Jie Xiong , Tao Chen

This paper presents a simple model for such processes as chaos spreading or turbulence spillover into stable regions. In this simple model the essential transport occurs via inelastic resonant interactions of waves on a lattice. The process…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin , Jens Juul Rasmussen

{\bf Purpose}: To develop a geometry-governed diffusion framework that explains differential tissue response under FLASH ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) irradiation by explicitly accounting for structural heterogeneity and anomalous transport…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Neda Valizadeh , Robabeh Rahimi , Ramin Abolfath

We consider a generalised diffusion equation in two dimensions for modeling diffusion on a comb-like structures. We analyse the probability distribution functions and we derive the mean squared displacement in $x$ and $y$ directions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-23 Trifce Sandev , Alexander Iomin , Holger Kantz , Ralf Metzler , Aleksei Chechkin

We study light propagation in nanoscale periodic structures composed of dielectric and metal in the visible range. We demonstrate that diffraction can be tailored both in magnitude and in sign by varying the geometric features of the…

The diffusion of a fractional Brownian particle passing over the saddle point is studied in the field of the metastable potential. The barrier escaping probability is found to be greatly related to the fractional exponent $\alpha$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-24 Chun-Yang Wang , Cui-Feng Sun , Hong Zhang , Xue-Mei Zong , Ming Yi

Quasilinear perpendicular diffusion of charged particles in fluctuating electromagnetic fields is the focus of this paper. A general transport parameter for perpendicular diffusion is presented being valid for an arbitrary turbulence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Stawicki

Light transport in superdiffusive media of finite size is studied theoretically. The intensity Green's function for a slab geometry is found by discretizing the fractional diffusion equation and employing the eigenfunction expansion method.…

Optics · Physics 2010-10-26 Jacopo Bertolotti , Kevin Vynck , Diederik S. Wiersma

The motion of contaminant particles through complex environments such as fractured rocks or porous sediments is often characterized by anomalous diffusion: the spread of the transported quantity is found to grow sublinearly in time due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Marseguerra , A. Zoia

With transfer matrix theory, we study the transmission of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) with two dielectric gratings on top and on the bottom. Owing to the diffraction of the two gratings, the transmission shows a comb-like spectrum…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-22 Xiaobo Zhao , Bingsuo Zou , Yongyou Zhang

We investigate a contaminant transport in fractal media with randomly inhomogeneous diffusion barrier. The diffusion barrier is a low permeable matrix with extremely rare high permeability pathways (punctures). At times, less than a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-12 Olga Dvoretskaya , Peter Kondratenko

We show an application of a subdiffusion equation with Caputo fractional time derivative with respect to another function $g$ to describe subdiffusion in a medium having a structure evolving over time. In this case a continuous transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-21 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz , Aldona Dutkiewicz

This paper deals with a comparison of Fractional Derivative and Monte carlo approaches to the modelling of anomalous diffusion in the field of particle transport. The goal of this research is to provide a better insight on the behavior of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-15 M. Marseguerra , A. Zoia

We compare the properties of transmission across one-dimensional finite samples which are associated with two types of "quantum diffusion", one related to a classical chaotic dynamics, the other to a multifractal energy spectrum. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Fausto Borgonovi , Italo Guarneri

A method is proposed for generating compact fractal disordered media, by generalizing the random midpoint displacement algorithm. The obtained structures are invasive stochastic fractals, with the Hurst exponent varying as a continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-04 Christian Turk , Anna Carbone , Bernardino M. Chiaia

Models with mixed origins of anomalous subdiffusion have been considered important for understanding transport in biological systems. Here, one such mixed model, the quenched trap model (QTM) on fractal lattices, is investigated. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Tomoshige Miyaguchi , Takuma Akimoto

We consider an optical diffraction grating in which the spatial distribution of open slits forms a fractal set. The Fraunhofer diffraction patterns through the fractal grating are obtained analytically for the simplest triad Cantor type and…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dongsu Bak , Sang Pyo Kim , Sung Ku Kim , Kwang-Sup Soh , Jae Hyung Yee

By means of analytical calculations and numerical simulations we study the diffusion properties in quasi-two-dimensional structures with two exciton subsystems with an exchange between them. The experimental realisation is possible in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-18 Oluwafemi P. Adejumobi , Vladimir N. Mantsevich , Vladimir V. Palyulin

Electromagnetic scattering from moving bodies, being inherently time-dependent phenomenon, gives rise to a generation of new frequencies, which could characterize the motion. While a standard linear path leads to a constant Doppler shift,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Dmitry Filonov , Ben Z. Steinberg , Pavel Ginzburg