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Consider the model where nodes are initially distributed as a Poisson point process with intensity $\lambda$ over $\mathbb{R}^d$ and are moving in continuous time according to independent Brownian motions. We assume that nodes are capable…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Alexandre Stauffer

To better understand the temporal characteristics and the lifetime of fluctuations in stochastic processes in networks, we investigated diffusive persistence in various graphs. Global diffusive persistence is defined as the fraction of…

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The Grishchuk--Zel'dovich effect is the contribution to the microwave background anisotropy from an extremely large scale adiabatic density perturbation, on the standard hypothesis that this perturbation is a typical realization of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Andrew R Liddle , David H Lyth , David Wands

The Langevin equation is ubiquitously employed to numerically simulate plasmas, colloids and electrolytes. However, the usual assumption of white noise becomes untenable when the system is subject to an external AC electric field. This is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Daniele Gamba , Bingyu Cui , Alessio Zaccone

We investigate the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a washboard potential with space dependent friction coefficient. Analytical expressions have been obtained for current and diffusion coefficient. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar

The distribution of the initial short-time displacements of particles is considered for a class of classical systems under rather general conditions on the dynamics and with Gaussian initial velocity distributions, while the positions could…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , E. G. D. Cohen

The transport of self-propelled particles such as bacteria and phoretic swimmers through crowded heterogeneous environments is relevant to many natural and engineering processes, from biofilm formation and contamination processes to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-10 Roberto Alonso-Matilla , Brato Chakrabarti , David Saintillan

Primordial Gravitational Waves, i.e. a background of metric perturbations sourced by the quantum inflationary fluctuations, if measured, could both provide a substantial evidence for primordial inflation and shed light on physics at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 William Giarè , Fabrizio Renzi

We have obtained the Vlasov equation and Boltzmann kinetic equation using Poisson bracket (classical Hamilton equation) and Rindler Hamiltonian. Further, we treat the whole Universe as a statistical system with galaxies as the point…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Soma Mitra , Somenath Chakrabarty

The statistical scattering properties of wave transport in disordered waveguides are derived perturbatively within the transition matrix formalism. The limiting macroscopic statistic of the wave transport, emerges as a consequence of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-26 M. Yépez , J. J. Sáenz

In this paper, a generalized Brownian motion model has been applied to describe the relative particle dispersion problem in more realistic turbulent flows. The fluctuating pressure forces acting on a fluid particle are taken to be a colored…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

We have analyzed the spectral density of fluctuations of the energy flux through a mesoscopic constriction between two equilibrium reservoirs. It is shown that at finite frequencies, the fluctuating energy flux is not related to the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dmitri V. Averin , Jukka P. Pekola

The dispersion of small amplitude, impulsively excited wave trains propagating along a magnetic flux tube is investigated. The initial disturbance is a localized transverse displacement of the tube that excites a fast kink wave packet. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Oliver , M. S. Ruderman , J. Terradas

Solitons are peculiar excitations that appear in a wide range of nonlinear systems such as in fluids or optics. We show here that the collective transport of charges observed in charge density wave (CDW) systems can be explained by using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-07 A. Rojo-Bravo , V. L. R. Jacques , David Le Bolloc'h

In this paper, we study the stationary states of diffusive dynamics driven out of equilibrium by reservoirs. For a small forcing, the system remains close to equilibrium and the large deviation functional of the density can be computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-19 Thierry Bodineau , Bernard Derrida

We study fluctuations of all co-existing energy exchange/transfer/transport processes in stationary periodic turbulence including those which average to zero and are not present in average cascade theories. We use a Helmholtz decomposition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-13 H. S. Larssen , J. C. Vassilicos

We consider fluctuations of the dissipated energy in nonlinear driven diffusive systems subject to bulk dissipation and boundary driving. With this aim, we extend the recently-introduced macroscopic fluctuation theory to nonlinear driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 P. I. Hurtado , A. Lasanta , A. Prados

The evolution of small scale cosmological perturbations is carefully re-examined. Through the interaction with photons via electrons, baryon perturbations show interesting behavior in some physical scales. Characteristic features of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Naoshi Sugiyama , Humitaka Sato

We study the coherent propagation and incoherent diffusion of in-plane elastic waves in a two dimensional continuum populated by many, randomly placed and oriented, edge dislocations. Because of the Peierls-Nabarro force the dislocations…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Dmitry Churochkin , Fernando Lund