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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

We study the random walk of a particle in a compartmentalized environment, as realized in biological samples or solid state compounds. Each compartment is characterized by its length $L$ and the boundaries transmittance $T$. We identify two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-12 Gorka Muñoz-Gil , Miguel Angel García-March , Carlo Manzo , Alessio Celi , Maciej Lewenstein

We first give a characterization of the L^1-transportation cost-information inequality on a metric space and next find some appropriate sufficient condition to transportation cost-information inequalities for dependent sequences.…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 H. Djellout , A. Guillin , L. Wu

We introduce a new exactly solvable model in quantum mechanics that describes the propagation of particles through a potential field created by regularly spaced $\delta'$-type point interactions, which model the localized dipoles often…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Yuriy Golovaty , Rostyslav Hryniv , Stanislav Lavrynenko

This paper is devoted to the study of traveling waves for monotone evolution systems of bistable type. Under an abstract setting, we establish the existence of bistable traveling waves for discrete and continuous-time monotone semiflows.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-23 Jian Fang , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

A review of non-diffusive transport in fluids and plasmas is presented. In the fluid context, non-diffusive chaotic transport by Rossby waves in zonal flows is studied following a Lagrangian approach. In the plasma physics context the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. del-Castillo-Negrete

The impact of disorder on wave transport has been extensively studied in Hermitian systems, where static randomness gives rise to Anderson localization. In non-Hermitian lattices, static disorder can lead to peculiar transport features,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-01 I. Komis , E. T. Kokkinakis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

This article discusses spin transport in systems with spin-orbit interactions and how it can be understood in a semiclassical picture. I will first present a semiclassical wave-packet description of spin transport, which explains how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 Dimitrie Culcer

We consider Markov jump processes describing structured populations with interactions via density dependance. We propose a Markov construction with a distinguished individual which allows to describe the random tree and random sample at a…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Vincent Bansaye

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 establish exponential inequalities and Cramer-type moderate deviation theorems for a class of V-statistics under strong mixing conditions. Our theory is developed via kernel expansion based on random Fourier features. This type of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Yandi Shen , Fang Han , Daniela Witten

The goal of these lectures is to review some mathematical aspects of random tree models used in evolutionary biology to model gene trees or species trees. We start with stochastic models of tree shapes (finite trees without edge lengths),…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-30 Amaury Lambert

Analysis with the characteristic functional of stochastic motion is used for the gradient spin echo measurement of restricted motion to clarify details of the diffraction-like effect in a porous structure. It gives the diffusive diffraction…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-07 Janez Stepisnik

This paper introduces the use of statistical distributions based on transport differential equations for clear distinction of transport modes within transient kinetic experiments. More specifically,novel techniques are developed for the…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-08 M. Ross Kunz , Debtanu Maiti , Gregory Yablonsky , Rebecca Fushimi

Railway systems form an important means of transport across the world. However, congestions or disruptions may significantly decrease these systems' efficiencies, making predicting and understanding the resulting train delays a priority for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-14 Mark M. Dekker , Alexey N. Medvedev , Jan Rombouts , Grzegorz Siudem , Liubov Tupikina

We introduce a kinetic model that couples the movement of a population of individuals with the dynamics of a pathogen in the same population. We consider that transmission occurs when a susceptible and an infectious individual are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Carolina Strecht-Fernandes , Fabio A. C. C. Chalub

The widespread use of GPS devices has driven advances in spatiotemporal data mining, enabling machine learning models to simulate human decision making and generate realistic trajectories, addressing both data collection costs and privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zhiyang Zhang , Ningcong Chen , Xin Zhang , Yanhua Li , Shen Su , Hui Lu , Jun Luo

Periodic and disordered media are known to possess different transport properties, either classically or quantum-mechanically. This has been exhibited by effects such as Anderson localization in systems with disorder and the existence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-26 E. Sadurni , J. A. Mendez-Bermudez

The guiding and transport of energy, for example of electromagnetic waves underpins many technologies that have shaped modern society, ranging from long distance optical fibre telecommunications to on-chip optical processors. Traditionally,…

We propose two nonlinear random walk models which are suitable for the analysis of both chemotaxis and anomalous transport. We derive the balance equations for the population density for the case when the transition rate for a random walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-22 Sergei Fedotov