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The self averaging properties of conductance $g$ are explored in random resistor networks with a broad distribution of bond strengths $P(g)\simg^{\mu-1}$. Distributions of equivalent conductances are estimated numerically on hierarchical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 R. F. Angulo , E. Medina

Anomalous diffusion processes, in particular superdiffusive ones, are known to be efficient strategies for searching and navigation by animals and also in human mobility. One way to create such regimes are L\'evy flights, where the walkers…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-22 Sarah de Nigris , Timoteo Carletti , Renaud Lambiotte

We study here the random diffusion model. This is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field $\phi$ driven by diffusive dynamics. The interesting feature of the dynamics is that the {\it bare} diffusion coefficient $D$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gene F. Mazenko

We consider contractivity for diffusion semigroups w.r.t. Kantorovich ($L^1$ Wasserstein) distances based on appropriately chosen concave functions. These distances are inbetween total variation and usual Wasserstein distances. It is shown…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Andreas Eberle

The fractional diffusion equation is rigorously derived as a scaling limit from a deterministic Rayleigh gas, where particles interact via short range potentials with support of size $\varepsilon$ and the background is distributed in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Karsten Matthies , Theodora Syntaka

We analyze a pair of diffusion equations which are derived in the infinite system--size limit from a microscopic, individual--based, stochastic model. Deviations from the conventional Fickian picture are found which ultimately relate to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Duccio Fanelli , Alan J. McKane

The random propagation of molecules in a fluid medium is characterized by the spontaneous diffusion law as well as the interaction between the environment and molecules. In this paper, we embody the anomalous diffusion theory for modeling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Dung Phuong Trinh , Youngmin Jeong , Hyundong Shin , Moe Z. Win

The sensitivity of anomalous transport in crowded media to the form of the inter-particle interactions is investigated through computer simulations. We extend the highly simplified Lorentz model towards realistic natural systems by modeling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-05 Charlotte F. Petersen , Thomas Franosch

We study the long-time behavior of a particle in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 2$, subject to molecular diffusion and advection by a random incompressible flow. The velocity field is the divergence of a stationary random stream matrix $\mathbf{k}…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Scott Armstrong , Ahmed Bou-Rabee , Tuomo Kuusi

We analyze diffusion processes with finite propagation speed in a non-homogeneous medium in terms of the heterogeneous telegrapher's equation. In the diffusion limit of infinite-velocity propagation we recover the results for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-18 Trifce Sandev , Ljupco Kocarev , Ralf Metzler , Aleksei Chechkin

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a glassy polymer widely used in biomedical engineering, namely in microfluidics applications. However, PDMS is known to interact with hydrophobic chemicals. This interaction is exacerbated at the scale of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-18 Nathaniel G. Hermann , Dmitry A. Markov , M. Shane Hutson

We study the generalized Langevin equation approach to anomalous diffusion for a harmonic oscillator and a free particle driven by different forms of internal noises, such as power-law-correlated and distributed-order noises that fulfil…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Z. Tomovski , K. Gorska , T. Pietrzak , R. Metzler , T. Sandev

We present a stochastic model for amplifying, diffusive media like, for instance, random lasers. Starting from a simple random-walk model, we derive a stochastic partial differential equation for the energy field with contains a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-11 Stefano Lepri

We consider the diffusion of markers in a layered medium, with the lateral diffusion coefficient being the function of hight. We show that the probability density of the lateral displacements follows one-dimensional Batchelor's equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-28 Eugene B. Postnikov , Igor M. Sokolov

We introduce a class of interacting fermionic quantum models in $d$ dimensions with nodal interactions that exhibit superdiffusive transport. We establish non-perturbatively that the nodal structure of the interactions gives rise to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yu-Peng Wang , Jie Ren , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

In this paper we present a study of anomalous diffusion using a Fokker-Planck description with fractional velocity derivatives. The distribution functions are found using numerical means for varying degree of fractionality observing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim , Sara Moradi

Tracer-diffusion of small molecules through dense systems of chain polymers is studied within an athermal lattice model, where hard core interactions are taken into account by means of the site exclusion principle. An approximate mapping of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Durr , T. Volz , W. Dieterich , A. Nitzan

We investigate the fully nonlinear model for convection in a Darcy porous material where the diffusion is of anomalous type as recently proposed by Barletta. The fully nonlinear model is analysed but we allow for variable gravity or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-21 Brian Straughan , Antonio Barletta

Diffusion rates through a membrane can be asymmetric, if the diffusing particles are spatially extended and the pores in the membrane have asymmetric structure. This phenomenon is demonstrated here via a deterministic simulation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Packard , Rob Shaw

The random diffusion model is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field driven by diffusive dynamics where the bare diffusion coefficient is density dependent. We generalize the model from one with a sharp wavenumber cutoff to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 David D. McCowan , Gene F. Mazenko