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A continuous time random walk (CTRW) model with waiting times following the Levy-stable distribution with exponential cut-off in equilibrium is a simple theoretical model giving rise to normal, yet non-Gaussian diffusion. The distribution…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-05-31 S. M. J. Khadem , I. M. Sokolov

The relation between the expectation values computed in the random walk theory, and the heat kernel method for the diffusion equation is explained concretely. The random walk is also realized by simulations and their statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-21 Kenichiro Aoki , Takahisa Mitsui

The continuous time random walk (CTRW) underlies many fundamental processes in non-equilibrium statistical physics. When the jump length of CTRW obeys a power-law distribution, its corresponding Fokker-Planck equation has space fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Yanyan Yu , Weihua Deng , Yujiang Wu

Functionals of Brownian motion have diverse applications in physics, mathematics, and other fields. The probability density function (PDF) of Brownian functionals satisfies the Feynman-Kac formula, which is a Schrodinger equation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-25 Shai Carmi , Lior Turgeman , Eli Barkai

We study the long time behavior of positive solutions of the Cauchy problem for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with bistable, ignition or monostable nonlinearities that exhibit threshold behavior. For $L^2$ initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-14 C. B. Muratov , X. Zhong

Concentration inequalities, which have proved very useful in a variety of fields, provide fairly tight bounds on large deviation probabilities while central limit theorem (CLT) describes the asymptotic distribution around the mean (at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Changqing Liu

The Persistent Turning Walker Model (PTWM) was introduced by Gautrais et al in Mathematical Biology for the modelling of fish motion. It involves a nonlinear pathwise functional of a non-elliptic hypo-elliptic diffusion. This diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Patrick Cattiaux , Djalil Chafai , Sébastien Motsch

We formulate continuous time quantum walks (CTQW) in a discrete quantum mechanical phase space. We define and calculate the Wigner function (WF) and its marginal distributions for CTQWs on circles of arbitrary length $N$. The WF of the CTQW…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Oliver Muelken , Alexander Blumen

We give a complete and unified description -- under some stability assumptions -- of the functional scaling limits associated with some persistent random walks for which the recurrent or transient type is studied in [1]. As a result, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Peggy Cénac , Arnaud Le Ny , Basile De Loynes , Yoann Offret

It has been observed in numerous experiments, simulations, and various theoretical treatments that the spreading of particles can be modeled by the continuous-time random walk. We consider two well-known cases, i.e., Gaussian displacements…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wanli Wang , Kaixin Zhang , Yuda Cheng

A space fractional diffusion-like equation is introduced, which embodies the nonlocality in time, represented by the memory kernel and the non-locality in space. A specific example of the nonlocal term is considered in combination with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Pece Trajanovski , Irina Petreska , Katarzyna Gorska , Ljupco Kocarev , Trifce Sandev

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

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

We study a model that intermediates among the wave, heat, and transport equations. The approach considers the propagation of initial disturbances in a one-dimensional medium that can vibrate. The medium is nonlinear in such a form that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Fernando Olivar-Romero , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

Levy walk (LW) process has been used as a simple model for describing anomalous diffusion in which the mean squared displacement of the walker grows non-linearly with time in contrast to the diffusive motion described by simple random walks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Santanu Das , Anupam Kundu

We deal with the Cauchy problem for the space-time fractional diffusion-wave equation, which is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the second-order space derivative with a Riesz-Feller derivative of order alpha in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-23 Francesco Mainardi , Yuri Luchko , Gianni Pagnini

We analyze the effect of time dependent external field on non-Markovian migration described by the continuous time random walk (CTRW) approach. The rigorous method of treating the problem is proposed which is based on the Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-25 A. I. Shushin

Propagation in quantum walks is revisited by showing that very general 1D discrete-time quantum walks with time- and space-dependent coefficients can be described, at the continuous limit, by Dirac fermions coupled to electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Fabrice Debbasch , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , David Espaze , Vincent Foulonneau

An intermittent nonlinear map generating subdiffusion is investigated. Computer simulations show that the generalized diffusion coefficient of this map has a fractal, discontinuous dependence on control parameters. An amended continuous…

This paper is devoted to studying the Cauchy problem for the Ostrovsky equation \begin{eqnarray*} \partial_{x}\left(u_{t}-\beta \partial_{x}^{3}u +\frac{1}{2}\partial_{x}(u^{2})\right) -\gamma u=0, \end{eqnarray*} with positive $\beta$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Wei Yan , Yongsheng Li , Jianhua Huang , Jinqiao Duan