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We investigate the distribution of occupation times for a particle undergoing a random walk among random energy traps and in the presence of a deterministic potential field $U^{{\rm det}}(x)$. When the distribution of energy traps is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Burov , E. Barkai

We introduce the quantum Levy walk to study transport and decoherence in a quantum random model. We have derived from second order perturbation theory the quantum master equation for a \textit{Levy-like particle}that moves along a lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Manuel O. Cáceres , Marco Nizama

We study a class of interacting particle systems on $\mathbb{R}$ with two types. Particles evolve by independent jumps sampled from a fixed distribution, with type-dependent jump rates $v_+$, $v_-$ and stochastic type switching driven by…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Sayan Banerjee , Andrew Nguyen

We consider a one-dimensional Brownian motion with diffusion coefficient $D$ in the presence of $n$ partially absorbing traps with intensity $\beta$, separated by a distance $L$ and evenly spaced around the initial position of the particle.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Gaia Pozzoli , Benjamin De Bruyne

We have studied a random walk model based on majority rule. At a given instant, the moving direction of a cargo is determined by motor coordination mediated by a tug-of-war mechanism between two kinds of competing motor proteins. We have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Hyungseok Chad Moon , Kyungsun Moon

We present a probabilistic theory of random walks in turbid media with non-scattering regions. It is shown that important characteristics such as diffusion constants, average step lengths, crossing statistics and void spacings can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-18 Tomas Svensson , Kevin Vynck , Marco Grisi , Romolo Savo , Matteo Burresi , Diederik S. Wiersma

We consider diffusive motion of a particle performing a random walk with L\'evy distributed jump lengths and subject to resetting mechanism bringing the walker to an initial position at uniformly distributed times. In the limit of infinite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-25 Lukasz Kusmierz , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

Spatial spread of minority carriers produced by optical excitation in semiconductors is usually well described by a diffusion equation. The classical diffusion process can be viewed as a result of a random walk of particles in which every…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-14 Arsen Subashiev , Serge Luryi

Let $X$ be a real valued L\'evy process that is in the domain of attraction of a stable law without centering with norming function $c.$ As an analogue of the random walk results in \cite{vw} and \cite{rad} we study the local behaviour of…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-07-25 Ronald Doney , Victor Rivero

Nonergodicity observed in single-particle tracking experiments is usually modeled by transient trapping rather than spatial disorder. We introduce models of a particle diffusing in a medium consisting of regions with random sizes and random…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-23 P. Massignan , C. Manzo , J. A. Torreno-Pina , M. F. García-Parajo , M. Lewenstein , G. J. Lapeyre

Starting from the model of continuous time random walk, we focus our interest on random walks in which the probability distributions of the waiting times and jumps have fat tails characterized by power laws with exponent between 0 and 1 for…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Rudolf Gorenflo , Entsar A. A. Abdel-Rehim

We study a generalization of the standard trapping problem of random walk theory in which particles move subdiffusively on a one-dimensional lattice. We consider the cases in which the lattice is filled with a one-sided and a two-sided…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Yuste , L. Acedo

We consider a random walk among a Poisson cloud of moving traps on ${\mathbb Z}^d$, where the walk is killed at a rate proportional to the number of traps occupying the same position. In dimension $d=1$, we have previously shown that under…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Siva Athreya , Alexander Drewitz , Rongfeng Sun

We study a symmetric random walk (RW) in one spatial dimension in environment, formed by several zones of finite width, where the probability of transition between two neighboring points and corresponding diffusion coefficient are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-03 A. V. Nazarenko , V. Blavatska

Several two-boundary problems are solved for a special L\'{e}vy process: the Poisson process with an exponential component. The jumps of this process are controlled by a homogeneous Poisson process, the positive jump size distribution is…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Tetyana Kadankova , Noël Veraverbeke

Intermittent stochastic processes appear in a wide field, such as chemistry, biology, ecology, and computer science. This paper builds up the theory of intermittent continuous time random walk (CTRW) and L\'{e}vy walk, in which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

We consider super-diffusive L\'evy walks in $d \geqslant 2$ dimensions when the duration of a single step, i.e., a ballistic motion performed by a walker, is governed by a power-law tailed distribution of infinite variance and finite mean.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Itzhak Fouxon , Sergey Denisov , Vasily Zaburdaev , Eli Barkai

Superslow diffusion, i.e., the long-time diffusion of particles whose mean-square displacement (variance) grows slower than any power of time, is studied in the framework of the decoupled continuous-time random walk model. We show that this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-24 S. I. Denisov , H. Kantz

Motivated by a host of empirical evidences revealing the bursty character of human dynamics, we develop a model of human activity based on successive switching between an hesitation state and a decision-realization state, with residency…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-15 Alexander V. Zhukov , Sergei Fedotov , Roland Bouffanais

A random walk scheme, consisting of alternating phases of regular Brownian motion and L\'evy walks, is proposed as a model for run-and-tumble bacterial motion. Within the continuous-time random walk approach we obtain the long-time and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Felix Thiel , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Igor M. Sokolov