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Diffusion processes are widespread in biological and chemical systems, where they play a fundamental role in the exchange of substances at the cellular level and in determining the rate of chemical reactions. Recently, the classical picture…

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Wang et al. [PNAS 106 (2009) 15160] have found that in several systems the linear time dependence of the mean-square displacement (MSD) of diffusing colloidal particles, typical of normal diffusion, is accompanied by a non-Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mykyta V. Chubynsky , Gary W. Slater

For the quantum correlations between scattered modes in the disordered media, the previous works focus mainly on the cases where the inputs are non-superposed states, for instance, products of Fock states [Phys. Rev. Letts. 105 (2010)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Dong Li , Yao Yao , Mo Li

Above two dimensions, diffusion of a particle in a medium with quenched random traps is believed to be well-described by the annealed continuous time random walk (CTRW). We propose an approximate expression for the first-passage-time (FPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-05 Liang Luo , Lei-Han Tang

We use fluctuating hydrodynamics to analyze the dynamical properties in the non-equilibrium steady state of a diffusive system coupled with reservoirs. We derive the two-time correlations of the density and of the current in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 Tridib Sadhu , Bernard Derrida

Epidemic spreading often occurs in spatially heterogeneous environments, yet how quenched heterogeneity reshapes its onset and critical dynamics remains poorly understood. The diffusive epidemic process, a minimal reaction-diffusion model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Valentin Anfray , Hong-Yan Shih

We study the evolution of higher-order nonclassicality and entanglement criteria in atmospheric fluctuating-loss channels. By formulating input-output relations for the matrix of moments, we investigate the influence of such channels on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 M. Bohmann , J. Sperling , A. A. Semenov , W. Vogel

We study the time delay of reflected and transmitted waves in 1D disordered media with high transmission. Highly transparent and translucent random media are found in nature or can be synthetically produced. We perform numerical simulations…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-30 Luis A. Razo-López , J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez , Victor A. Gopar

We consider the propagation of flexural waves across a nearly flat, thin membrane, whose stress-free state is curved. The stress-free configuration is specified by a quenched height field, whose Fourier components are drawn from a Gaussian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-19 Jonathan Kernes , Alex J. Levine

Solitons in a strongly nonlocal nonlinear medium have attracted considerable attention in recent years due to their unique and distinctive characteristics from those observed in the local nonlinear medium. In this work, we investigate the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-18 K L Mamatha , S Stalin , K Nithyanandan

We investigate the problem of effusion of particles initially confined in a finite one-dimensional box of size $L$. We study both passive as well active scenarios, involving non-interacting diffusive particles and run-and-tumble particles,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-03 Arup Biswas , Stephy Jose , Arnab Pal , Kabir Ramola

The distribution of resistance fluctuations of conducting thin films with granular structure near electrical breakdown is studied by numerical simulations. The film is modeled as a resistor network in a steady state determined by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Pennetta , E. Alfinito , L. Reggiani , S. Ruffo

Typical generative diffusion models rely on a Gaussian diffusion process for training the backward transformations, which can then be used to generate samples from Gaussian noise. However, real world data often takes place in discrete-state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Javier E Santos , Zachary R. Fox , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

Diffusion in nonhomogeneous media is described by a dynamical process driven by a general Levy noise and subordinated to a random time; the subordinator depends on the position. This problem is approximated by a multiplicative process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tomasz Srokowski

In this paper Gaussian models of retarded and accelerated anomalous diffusion are considered. Stochastic differential equations of fractional order driven by single or multiple fractional Gaussian noise terms are introduced to describe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-08 Chai Hok Eab , S. C. Lim

We investigate the connections between microscopic chaos, defined on a dynamical level and arising from collisions between molecules, and diffusion, characterized by a mean square displacement proportional to the time. We use a number of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Dettmann , E. G. D. Cohen

We develop an effective theory of pulse propagation in a nonlinear {\it and} disordered medium. The theory is formulated in terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation. Despite its apparent simplicity this equation describes novel phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkelstein

A mathematical model is developed, to jointly analyze elastic and inelastic scattering data of fluctuating membranes within a single theoretical framework. The model builds on a non-homogeneously clipped time-dependent Gaussian random…

We study the spread of a quantum-mechanical wavepacket in a noisy environment, modeled using a tight-binding Hamiltonian. Despite the coherent dynamics, the fluctuating environment may give rise to diffusive behavior. When correlations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-29 Nisarga Paul , Ariel Amir

The focus of this paper is to quantify measures of aggregate fluctuations for a class of consensus-seeking multiagent networks subject to exogenous noise with alpha-stable distributions. This type of noise is generated by a class of random…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Christoforos Somarakis , Nader Motee