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The ensemble properties and time-averaged observables of a memory-induced diffusive-superdiffusive transition are studied. The model consists in a random walker whose transitions in a given direction depend on a weighted linear combination…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-11 Adrian A. Budini

Elephant random walk, introduced to study the effect of memory on random walks, is a novel type of walk that incorporates the information of one randomly chosen past step to determine the future step. However, memory of a process can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Krishanu Maulik , Parthanil Roy , Tamojit Sadhukhan

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…

Improved communication systems, shrinking battery sizes and the price drop of tracking devices have led to an increasing availability of trajectory tracking data. These data are often analyzed to understand animal behavior. In this work, we…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-12 Gianluca Mastrantonio , Clara Grazian , Sara Mancinelli , Enrico Bibbona

The presence of temporal correlations in random movement trajectories is a widespread phenomenon across biological, chemical and physical systems. The ubiquity of persistent and anti-persistent motion in many natural and synthetic systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-03 Daniel Marris , Luca Giuggioli

In recent years, mobility models have been reconsidered based on findings by analyzing some big datasets collected by GPS sensors, cellphone call records, and Geotagging. To understand the fundamental statistical properties of the frequency…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-05 Akihiro Fujihara , Hiroyoshi Miwa

The movement of organisms is subject to a multitude of influences of widely varying character: from the bio-mechanics of the individual, over the interaction with the complex environment many animals live in, to evolutionary pressure and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Friedrich Lenz , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Rainer Klages

A recent model of Ariel et al. [1] for explaining the observation of L\'evy walks in swarming bacteria suggests that self-propelled, elongated particles in a periodic array of regular vortices perform a super-diffusion that is consistent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Gil Ariel , Jeremy Schiff

We consider a Grover walk model on a finite internal graph, which is connected with a finite number of semi-infinite length paths and receives the alternative inflows along these paths at each time step. After the long time scale, we know…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Yusuke Higuchi , Mohamed Sabri , Etsuo Segawa

While microscopic organisms can use gradient-based search to locate resources, this strategy can be poorly suited to the sensory signals available to macroscopic organisms. We propose a framework that models search-decision making in cases…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-04 Andrew M. Hein , Scott A. McKinley

The distribution of the first positive position reached by a random walker starting from the origin is fundamental for understanding the statistics of extremes and records in one-dimensional random walks. We present a comprehensive study of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

Animals foraging alone are hypothesized to optimize the encounter rates with resources through L\'evy walks. However, the issue of how the interactions between multiple foragers influence their search efficiency is still not completely…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Kunal Bhattacharya , Tamás Vicsek

This article considers the statistical properties of L\'evy walks possessing a regular long-term linear scaling of the mean square displacement with time, for which the conditions of the classical Central Limit Theorem apply.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 Massimiliano Giona , Andrea Cairoli , Rainer Klages

Quantum walks have by now been realized in a large variety of different physical settings. In some of these, particularly with trapped ions, the walk is implemented in phase space, where the corresponding position states are not orthogonal.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 R. Matjeschk , A. Ahlbrecht , M. Enderlein , Ch. Cedzich , A. H. Werner , M. Keyl , T. Schaetz , R. F. Werner

We consider the motion of an overdamped particle in a periodic potential lacking spatial symmetry under the influence of symmetric L\'evy noise, being a minimal setup for a ``L\'evy ratchet.'' Due to the non-thermal character of the L\'evy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Dybiec , E. Gudowska-Nowak , I. M. Sokolov

Levy walks (LWs) define a fundamental class of finite velocity stochastic processes that can be introduced as a special case of continuous time random walks. Alternatively, there is a hyperbolic representation of them in terms of partial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-11 M. Giona , M. D'Ovidio , D. Cocco , A. Cairoli , R. Klages

For more than a century lattice random walks have been employed ubiquitously, both as a theoretical laboratory to develop intuition about more complex stochastic processes and as a tool to interpret a vast array of empirical observations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-31 Luca Giuggioli , Seeralan Sarvaharman , Debraj Das , Daniel Marris , Toby Kay

In this work, we present a novel distributed method for constructing an occupancy grid map of an unknown environment using a swarm of robots with global localization capabilities and limited inter-robot communication. The robots explore the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ragesh K. Ramachandran , Zahi Kakish , Spring Berman

Quantum walks play an important role for developing quantum algorithms and quantum simulations. Here we present one dimensional three-state quantum walk(lazy quantum walk) and show its equivalence for circuit realization in ternary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Amit Saha , Sudhindu Bikash Mandal , Debasri Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

We study a model of active particles that perform a simple random walk and on top of that have a preferred direction determined by an internal state which is modelled by a stationary Markov process. First we calculate the limiting diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Bart van Ginkel , Bart van Gisbergen , Frank Redig