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We present a numerical study of classical particles diffusing on a solid surface. The particles' motion is modeled by an underdamped Langevin equation with ordinary thermal noise. The particle-surface interaction is described by a periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Sancho , A. M. Lacasta , K. Lindenberg , I. M. Sokolov , A. H. Romero

Many physical, biological or social systems are governed by history-dependent dynamics or are composed of strongly interacting units, showing an extreme diversity of microscopic behaviour. Macroscopically, however, they can be efficiently…

General Physics · Physics 2018-02-08 Dániel Czégel , Sámuel G Balogh , Péter Pollner , Gergely Palla

The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the main concepts behind normal and anomalous diffusion. Starting from simple, but well known experiments, a series of mathematical modeling tools are introduced, and the relation between them is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-06 Loukas Vlahos , Heinz Isliker , Yannis Kominis , Kyriakos Hizanidis

Quantum walks are known to propagate quadratically faster than their classical counterparts and are used to model dynamics in various quantum systems. The spread of the quantum walk in position space shows anomalous diffusion behavior. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Abhaya S. Hegde , C. M. Chandrashekar

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

By collecting from literature data the experimental evidences of anomalous diffusion of passive tracers inside cytoplasm, and in particular of subdiffusion of mRNA molecules inside live E. coli cells, we get the probability density function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-05 Claudio Runfola , Silvia Vitali , Gianni Pagnini

The nonlinear theory of anomalous diffusion is based on particle interactions giving an explicit microscopic description of diffusive processes leading to sub-, normal, or super-diffusion as a result competitive effects between attractive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Jean Pierre Boon , James F. Lutsko

Aim of this note is to analyse branching Brownian motion within the class of models introduced in the recent paper [4] and called chemical diffusion master equations. These models provide a description for the probabilistic evolution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Alberto Lanconelli , Berk Tan Perçin

We propose a model of sub-diffusion in which an external force is acting on a particle at all times not only at the moment of jump. The implication of this assumption is the dependence of the random trapping time on the force with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-16 Sergei Fedotov , Nickolay Korabel

We study the first passage time (FPT) problem in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using the recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation, we obtain an analytic expression for the FPT distribution which, in the large passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan , Mingzhou Ding

We formulate the generalized master equation for a class of continuous time random walks in the presence of a prescribed deterministic evolution between successive transitions. This formulation is exemplified by means of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Eule , R. Friedrich , F. Jenko , I. M. Sokolov

By means of a particle model that includes interactions only via the local particle concentration, we show that hyperballistic diffusion may result. This is done by findng the exact solution of the corresponding non-linear diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Eirik G. Flekkøy , Alex Hansen , Beatrice Baldelli

Reaction-diffusion equations are one of the most common mathematical models in the natural sciences and are used to model systems that combine reactions with diffusive motion. However, rather than normal diffusion, anomalous subdiffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-23 Amanda M Alexander , Sean D Lawley

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation for subdiffusion in time-dependent force fields is derived from the underlying continuous time random walk. Its limitations are discussed and it is then applied to the study of subdiffusion under the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-02 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

A non--linear diffusion equation is derived by taking into account hopping rates depending on the occupation of next neighbouring sites. There appears additonal repulsive and attractive forces leading to a changed local mobiltiy. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Artz , M. Schulz , S. Trimper

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

We formulate a compounded random walk that is physically well defined on both finite and infinite domains, and samples space-dependent forces throughout jumps. The governing evolution equation for the walk limits to a space-fractional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-25 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang , Zhuang Xu

A Langevin equation with a special type of additive random source is considered. This random force presents a fractional order derivative of white noise, and leads to a power-law time behavior of the mean square displacement of a particle,…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Kobelev , E. Romanov

We derive the fractional master equation with space dependent anomalous exponent. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of corresponding lattice model both analytically and by Monte Carlo simulation. We show that the subdiffusive fractional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergei Fedotov , Steven Falconer

We demonstrate that the Fokker-Planck equation can be generalized into a 'Fractional Fokker-Planck' equation, i.e. an equation which includes fractional space differentiations, in order to encompass the wide class of anomalous diffusions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V. Yanovsky , A. V. Chechkin , D. Schertzer , A. V. Tour