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We revisit the diffusion properties and the mean drift induced by an external field of a random walk process in a class of branched structures, as the comb lattice and the linear chains of plaquettes. A simple treatment based on scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-21 Giuseppe Forte , Raffaella Burioni , Fabio Cecconi , Angelo Vulpiani

In many-particle diffusions, particles that move the furthest and fastest can play an outsized role in physical phenomena. A theoretical understanding of the behavior of such extreme particles is nascent. A classical model, in the spirit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-22 Jacob B. Hass , Aileen N. Carroll-Godfrey , Eric I. Corwin , Ivan Z. Corwin

Diffusion is a central phenomenon in almost all fields of natural science revealing microscopic processes from the observation of macroscopic dynamics. Here, we consider the paradigmatic system of a single atom diffusing in a periodic…

A generalized Einstein relation is studied for Brownian motion in a tilted potential. The exact form of the diffusion constant of the Brownian motion is compared with the generalized Einstein relation. The generalized Einstein relation is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

We consider the random walk on a lattice with random transition rates and arbitrarily long-range jumps. We employ Bruggeman's effective medium approximation (EMA) to find the disorder averaged (coarse-grained) dynamics. The EMA procedure…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-27 Felix Thiel , Igor M. Sokolov

The L\'evy walk is a non-Brownian random walk model that has been found to describe anomalous dynamic phenomena in diverse fields ranging from biology over quantum physics to ecology. Recurrently occurring problems are to examine whether…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Seongyu Park , Samudrajit Thapa , Yeongjin Kim , Michael A. Lomholt , Jae-Hyung Jeon

A L\'evy random medium, in a given space, is a random point process where the distances between points, a.k.a. targets, are long-tailed. Random walks visiting the targets of a L\'evy random medium have been used to model many (physical,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Marco Lenci

The dynamics of the Hamiltonian mean field model is studied in the context of continuous time random walks. We show that the sojourn times in cells in the momentum space are well described by a L\'evy truncated distribution. Consequently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-06 A. Figueiredo , Z. T. Oliveira , T. M. Rocha Filho , R. Matsushita , M. A. Amato

Superslow diffusion, i.e., the long-time diffusion of particles whose mean-square displacement (variance) grows slower than any power of time, is studied in the framework of the decoupled continuous-time random walk model. We show that this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-24 S. I. Denisov , H. Kantz

Anomalous diffusion, manifest as a nonlinear temporal evolution of the position mean square displacement, and/or non-Gaussian features of the position statistics, is prevalent in biological transport processes. Likewise, collective behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-01 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

Diffusive scaling of position moments and a central limit theorem are obtained for the mean position of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice and subject to a random potential consisting of a large static part and a small part that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Jeffrey Schenker

There are various cases of animal movement where behaviour broadly switches between two modes of operation, corresponding to a long distance movement state and a resting or local movement state. Here a mathematical description of this…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-01 Jake P. Taylor-King , Emiel van Loon , Gabriel Rosser , S. Jon Chapman

In this paper continuous time random walk models approximating fractional space-time diffusion processes are studied. Stochastic processes associated with the considered equations represent time-changed processes, where the time-change…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Sabir Umarov

We demonstrate the non-ergodicity of a simple Markovian stochastic processes with space-dependent diffusion coefficient $D(x)$. For power-law forms $D(x) \simeq|x|^{\alpha}$, this process yield anomalous diffusion of the form $\ < x^2(t)\ >…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Andrey G. Cherstvy , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

Commonly, normal diffusive behavior is characterized by a linear dependence of the second central moment on time, $< x^2(t) >\propto t$, while anomalous behavior is expected to show a different time dependence, $ < x^2(t) > \propto…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

We introduce the quantum Levy walk to study transport and decoherence in a quantum random model. We have derived from second order perturbation theory the quantum master equation for a \textit{Levy-like particle}that moves along a lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Manuel O. Cáceres , Marco Nizama

We study a simple one dimensional sluggish random walk model with subdiffusive growth. In the continuum hydrodynamic limit, the model corresponds to a particle diffusing on a line with a space dependent diffusion constant D(x)=…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-04 Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio , Satya N. Majumdar

Reaction-diffusion equations deliver a versatile tool for the description of reactions in inhomogeneous systems under the assumption that the characteristic reaction scales and the scales of the inhomogeneities in the reactant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. G. W. Schmidt , F. Sagues , I. M. Sokolov

The mean-squared displacement (MSD) is an averaged quantity widely used to assess anomalous diffusion. In many cases, such as molecular motors with finite processivity, dynamics of the system of interest produce trajectories of varying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Chapin S. Korosec , David A. Sivak , Nancy R. Forde

We study the asymptotic position distribution of general quantum walks on a lattice, including walks with a random coin, which is chosen from step to step by a general Markov chain. In the unitary (i.e., non-random) case, we allow any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 Andre Ahlbrecht , Holger Vogts , Albert H. Werner , Reinhard F. Werner