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The Levy walk in which the frequency of occurrence of step lengths follows a power-law distribution, can be observed in the migratory behavior of organisms at various levels. Levy walks with power exponents close to 2 are observed, and the…

We experimentally study anomalous diffusion of ultra-cold atoms in a one dimensional polarization optical lattice. The atomic spatial distribution is recorded at different times and its dynamics and shape are analyzed. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Yoav Sagi , Miri Brook , Ido Almog , Nir Davidson

Collective motion is often modeled within the framework of active fluids, where the constituent active particles, when interactions with other particles are switched off, perform normal diffusion at long times. However, in biology,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-02 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

We compute exactly the full distribution of the number $m$ of local minima in a one-dimensional landscape generated by a random walk or a L\'evy flight. We consider two different ensembles of landscapes, one with a fixed number of steps $N$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-08 Anupam Kundu , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Measurements of protein motion in living cells and membranes consistently report transient anomalous diffusion (subdiffusion) which converges back to a Brownian motion with reduced diffusion coefficient at long times, after the anomalous…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Hédi Soula , Bertrand Caré , Guillaume Beslon , Hugues Berry

In this letter we present a measurement of the phase-space density distribution (PSDD) of ultra-cold \Rb atoms performing 1D anomalous diffusion. The PSDD is imaged using a direct tomographic method based on Raman velocity selection. It…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Gadi Afek , Jonathan Coslovsky , Arnaud Courvoisier , Oz Livneh , Nir Davidson

L\'evy flights and L\'evy walks serve as two paradigms of random walks resembling common features but also bearing fundamental differences. One of the main dissimilarities are discontinuity versus continuity of their trajectories and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-09 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Eli Barkai , Alexander A. Dubkov

We consider a random walk model in a one-dimensional environment, formed by several zones of finite width with the fixed transition probabilities. It is also assumed that the transitions to the left and right neighboring points have unequal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-18 A. V. Nazarenko , V. Blavatska

We investigate diffusion of excitation in one- and two-dimensional lattices with random on-site energies and deterministic long-range couplings (hopping) inversely proportional to the distance. Three regimes of diffusion are observed in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-18 Karol Kawa , Paweł Machnikowski

The analysis of the Rayleigh-B\'enard instability due to the mass diffusion in a fluid-saturated horizontal porous layer is reconsidered. The standard diffusion theory based on the variance of the molecular position growing linearly in time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Antonio Barletta

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

Many transport processes in nature exhibit anomalous diffusive properties with non-trivial scaling of the mean square displacement, e.g., diffusion of cells or of biomolecules inside the cell nucleus, where typically a crossover between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Andrea Cairoli , Adrian Baule

We consider the random walk of a particle in a two-dimensional self-affine random potential of Hurst exponent $H=1/2$ in the presence of an external force $F$. We present numerical results on the statistics of first-passage times that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-08-31 Cecile Monthus , Thomas Garel

The {\alpha}-stable L\'evy process, commonly used to describe L\'evy flight, is characterized by discontinuous jumps and is widely used to model anomalous transport phenomena. In this study, we investigate the associated exit problem and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Minglei Yang , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Guannan Zhang

Statistical agent-based models for crime have shown that repeat victimization can lead to predictable crime hotspots (see e.g. Short et al., Math. Models Methods Appl., 2008), then a recent study in one space dimension (Chaturapruek et al.,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-10 Chaohao Pan , Bo Li , Chuntian Wang , Yuqi Zhang , Nathan Geldner , Li Wang , Andrea Bertozzi

The superdiffusion behavior, i.e. $<x^2(t)> \sim t^{2 \nu}$, with $\nu > 1/2$, in general is not completely characherized by a unique exponent. We study some systems exhibiting strong anomalous diffusion, i.e. $<|x(t)|^q> \sim t^{q \nu(q)}$…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Castiglione , A. Mazzino , P. Muratore-Ginanneschi , A. Vulpiani

Transport phenomena play a crucial role in modern physics and applied sciences. Examples include the dissipation of energy across a large system, the distribution of quantum information in optical networks, and the timely modeling of…

The dynamic spatial redistribution of individuals is a key driving force of various spatiotemporal phenomena on geographical scales. It can synchronise populations of interacting species, stabilise them, and diversify gene pools [1-3].…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Brockmann , L. Hufnagel , T. Geisel

Anomalous transport processes in which the variance of the distance travelled does not necessarily increase linearly with time are modelled using the formalism of continuous time random walks. We compute particle propagators which have the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 B. R. Ragot , J. G. Kirk

We investigate the density decay in the pair-annihilation process A+A->0 in the case when the particles perform anomalous diffusion on a cubic lattice. The anomalous diffusion is realized via L\'evy flights, which are characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-16 Ingo Homrighausen , Anton A. Winkler , Erwin Frey