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It is recognised now that a variety of real-life phenomena ranging from diffuson of cold atoms to motion of humans exhibit dispersal faster than normal diffusion. L\'evy walks is a model that excelled in describing such superdiffusive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-03 V. Zaburdaev , I. Fouxon , S. Denisov , E. Barkai

We study the long-time behavior of the probability density associated with the decoupled continuous-time random walk which is characterized by a superheavy-tailed distribution of waiting times. It is shown that if the random walk is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-02 S. I. Denisov , H. Kantz

This article considers the statistical properties of L\'evy walks possessing a regular long-term linear scaling of the mean square displacement with time, for which the conditions of the classical Central Limit Theorem apply.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 Massimiliano Giona , Andrea Cairoli , Rainer Klages

In cellular vortical flows, namely arrays of counter-rotating vortices, short but flexible filaments can show simple random walks through their stretch-coil interactions with flow stagnation points. Here, we study the dynamics of semi-rigid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-18 Shi-Yuan Hu , Jun-Jun Chu , Michael J. Shelley , Jun Zhang

We study the ergodic properties of superdiffusive, spatiotemporally coupled Levy walk processes. For trajectories of finite duration, we reveal a distinct scatter of the scaling exponents of the time averaged mean squared displacement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

We perform a thorough analysis of the survival probability of symmetric random walks with stochastic resetting, defined as the probability for the walker not to cross the origin up to time $n$. For continuous symmetric distributions of step…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-13 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

The L\'evy, jumping process, defined in terms of the jumping size distribution and the waiting time distribution, is considered. The jumping rate depends on the process value. The fractional diffusion equation, which contains the variable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-10 Tomasz Srokowski

A catalytic branching random walk on a multidimensional lattice, with arbitrary finite number of catalysts, is studied in supercritical regime. The dynamics of spatial spread of the particles population is examined, upon normalization. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Ekaterina Vl. Bulinskaya

A growing body of literature examines the effects of superdiffusive subballistic movement pre-measurement (ageing or time lag) on observations arising from single-particle tracking. A neglected aspect is the finite lifetime of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-03 Helena Stage

The scaling behavior of the closed trajectories of a moving particle generated by randomly placed rotators or mirrors on a square or triangular lattice is studied numerically. For most concentrations of the scatterers the trajectories close…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Meng-she Cao , E. G. D. Cohen

We analyze the time dependent response of strongly scattering media (SSM) to ultra-short pulses of light. A random walk technique is used to model the optical scattering of ultra-short pulses of light propagating through media with random…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chris J. Lee , Peter J. M. van der Slot , Klaus. -J. Boller

We consider a generalization of a one-dimensional stochastic process known in the physical literature as L\'evy-Lorentz gas. The process describes the motion of a particle on the real line in the presence of a random array of marked points,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Alessandra Bianchi , Giampaolo Cristadoro , Marco Lenci , Marilena Ligabò

We study the behavior of a point particle incident from the left on a slab of a randomly diluted triangular array of circular scatterers. Various scattering properties, such as the reflection and transmission probabilities and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hernan Larralde , Francois Leyvraz , Gustavo Martinez-Mekler , Raul Rechtman , Stefano Ruffo

We examine isotropic and anisotropic random walks which begin on the surface of linear ($N$), square ($N \times N$), or cubic ($N \times N \times N$) lattices and end upon encountering the surface again. The mean length of walks is equal to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-27 Prabodh Shukla , Diana Thongjaomayum

We investigate multiple scattering of near-resonant light in a Doppler-broadened atomic vapor. We experimentally characterize the length distribution of the steps between successive scattering events. The obtained power law is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Nicolas Mercadier , Martine Chevrollier , William Guerin , Robin Kaiser

When light travels through strongly scattering media with optical gain, the synergy between diffusive transport and stimulated emission can lead to lasing action. Below the threshold pump power, the emission spectrum is smooth and…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jason W. Merrill , Hui Cao , Eric R. Dufresne

We consider a continuous-time branching random walk on a multidimensional lattice in a random branching medium. It is theoretically known that, in such branching random walks, large rare fluctuations of the medium may lead to anomalous…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Kutsenko Vladimir , Elena Yarovaya

Recent experiments on the propagation of light over a distance L through a random packing of spheres with a power law distribution of radii (a socalled L\'evy glass) have found that the transmission probability T \propto 1/L^{\gamma} scales…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 C. W. Groth , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We introduce a L\'evy-Lorentz gas in which a light particle is scattered by static point scatterers arranged on a line. We investigate the case where the intervals between scatterers $\{\xi_i \}$ are independent random variables identically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Barkai , V. Fleurov , J. Klafter

Many physical and biological processes are modeled by "particles" undergoing L\'evy random walks. A feature of significant interest in these systems is the mean square displacement (MSD) of the particles. Long-time asymptotic approximations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-13 Christoph Borgers , Claude Greengard