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In this work a Feynman-Kac path integral method based on Levy measure has been proposed for solving the Cauchy problems associated with the space-time fractional Schroedinger equations arising in interacting systems in fractional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Sumita Datta , Radhika Prosad Datta

We consider a classic two-state switching diffusion model from a single-particle tracking perspective. The mean and the variance of the time-averaged mean square displacement (TAMSD) are computed exactly. When the measurement time (i.e.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-05 Denis S. Grebenkov

We examine by extensive computer simulations the self-diffusion of anisotropic star like particles in crowded two-dimensional solutions. We investigate the implications of the area coverage fraction $\phi$ of the crowders and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-26 Jaeoh Shin , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Ralf Metzler

Subdiffusive motion of tracer particles in complex crowded environments, such as biological cells, has been shown to be widepsread. This deviation from brownian motion is usually characterized by a sublinear time dependence of the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Condamin , V. Tejedor , R. Voituriez , O. Benichou , J. Klafter

The Mean Square Displacement is a central tool in the analysis of Single Particle Tracking experiments, shedding light on various biophysical phenomena. Frequently, parameters are extracted by performing time-averages on single particle…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Eldad Kepten Irena Bronshtein , Yuval Garini

We present a numerical method for the Monte Carlo simulation of uncoupled continuous-time random walks with a Levy alpha-stable distribution of jumps in space and a Mittag-Leffler distribution of waiting times, and apply it to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-19 Daniel Fulger , Enrico Scalas , Guido Germano

Motivated by subdiffusive motion of bio-molecules observed in living cells we study the stochastic properties of a non-Brownian particle whose motion is governed by either fractional Brownian motion or the fractional Langevin equation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler

We discuss some applications of the Mittag-Leffler function and related probability distributions in the theory of renewal processes and continuous time random walks. In particular we show the asymptotic (long time) equivalence of a generic…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-04-27 Rudolf Gorenflo

Anomalous diffusion has been widely observed by single particle tracking microscopy in complex systems such as biological cells. The resulting time series are usually evaluated in terms of time averages. Often anomalous diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stas Burov , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Eli Barkai

We study ultraslow diffusion processes with logarithmic mean squared displacement (MSD) $\langle x^2(t)\rangle\simeq\log^{\gamma}t$. Comparison of annealed continuous time random walks (CTRWs) with logarithmic waiting time distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Aljaz Godec , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Eli Barkai , Holger Kantz , Ralf Metzler

Based on the Langevin description of the Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW), we consider a generalization of CTRW in which the waiting times between the subsequent jumps are correlated. We discuss the cases of exponential and slowly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. V. Chechkin , M. Hofmann , I. M. Sokolov

Diffusion at solid-liquid interfaces is crucial in many technological and biophysical processes. Although its behavior seems deceivingly simple, recent studies showing passive superdiffusive transport suggest diffusion on surfaces may hide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-25 Diego Krapf , Grace Campagnola , Kanti Nepal , Olve B. Peersen

Recent advances in molecular biology and fluorescence microscopy imaging have made possible the inference of the dynamics of single molecules in living cells. Such inference allows to determine the organization and function of the cell. The…

Applications · Statistics 2018-06-20 Vincent Briane , Charles Kervrann , Myriam Vimond

We investigate continuous time random walks with truncated $\alpha$-stable trapping times. We prove distributional ergodicity for a class of observables; namely, the time-averaged observables follow the probability density function called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tomoshige Miyaguchi , Takuma Akimoto

An increasing number of experimental studies employ single particle tracking to probe the physical environment in complex systems. We here propose and discuss new methods to analyze the time series of the particle traces, in particular, for…

We study the ergodic properties of superdiffusive, spatiotemporally coupled Levy walk processes. For trajectories of finite duration, we reveal a distinct scatter of the scaling exponents of the time averaged mean squared displacement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

We compute the mean square displacement (MSD) of intruders immersed in a freely cooling granular gas made up of smooth inelastic hard spheres. In general, intruders and particles of the granular gas are assumed to have different mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-23 Enrique Abad , Santos Bravo Yuste , Vicente Garzó

Diffusive properties of a monodisperse system of interacting particles confined to a \textit{quasi}-one-dimensional (Q1D) channel are studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We calculate numerically the mean-squared displacement…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-10 D. Lucena , D. V. Tkachenko , K. Nelissen , V. R. Misko , W. P. Ferreira , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

A general analytic solution to the fractional advection diffusion equation is obtained in plane parallel geometry. The result is an infinite series of spatial Fourier modes which decay according to the Mittag-Leffler function, which is cast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-01 Bronson Philippa , Ronald White , Robert Robson

The effects of spatial confinements and smooth cutoffs of the waiting time distribution in continuous-time random walks (CTRWs) are studied analytically. We also investigate dependences of ergodic properties on initial ensembles (i.e.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-27 Tomoshige Miyaguchi , Takuma Akimoto