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Understanding and predicting pedestrian dynamics has become essential for shaping safer, more responsive, and human-centered urban environments. This study conducts a comprehensive scientometric analysis of research on data-driven…

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The process of data interpretation is always based on the implicit introduction of equivalence relations on the set of walks over the database. Every equivalence relation on the set of walks specifies a Markov chain describing the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-15 D. Volchenkov

We consider the thermally activated escape of an overdamped Brownian particle over a potential barrier in the presence of periodic driving. A time-dependent path-integral formalism is developed which allows us to derive asymptotically exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jörg Lehmann , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

When a large group of pedestrians moves around a corner, most pedestrians do not follow the shortest path, which is to stay as close as possible to the inner wall, but try to minimize the travel time. For this they accept to move on a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-05-28 Tobias Kretz

The influence of cohesion among members of dyads is investigated in scenarios characterized by uni-directional flow by means of a discrete model: a corridor and the egress from a room with a bottleneck of varying width are simulated. The…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Luca Crociani , Yiping Zeng , Andrea Gorrini , Giuseppe Vizzari , Weiguo Song

We introduce the driven discrete time quantum walk, where walkers are added during the walk instead of only at the beginning. This leads to interference in walker number and very different dynamics when compared to the original quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 Craig S. Hamilton , Sonja Barkhofen , Linda Sansoni , Igor Jex , Christine Silberhorn

The scattering theory of quantum transport relates transport properties of disordered mesoscopic conductors to their transfer matrix $\bbox{T}$. We introduce a novel approach to the statistics of transport quantities which expresses the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Endesfelder

In this work we develop an alternative approach for solution of Quantum Trajectories using the Path Integral method. The state-of-the-art technique in the field is to solve a set of non-linear, coupled partial differential equations (PDEs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Sagnik Ghosh , Swapan K. Ghosh

Recurrent neural networks are able to learn complex long-term relationships from sequential data and output a pdf over the state space. Therefore, recurrent models are a natural choice to address path prediction tasks, where a trained model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Ronny Hug , Stefan Becker , Wolfgang Hübner , Michael Arens

The precise description of quantum nuclear fluctuations in atomistic modelling is possible by employing path integral techniques, which involve a considerable computational overhead due to the need of simulating multiple replicas of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Venkat Kapil , Jörg Behler , Michele Ceriotti

We introduce a quasiclassical Green function approach describing the unitary yet irreversible dynamics of quantum systems effectively acting as their own environment. Combining a variety of concepts of quantum many-body theory, notably the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Alexander Altland , Kun Woo Kim , Tobias Micklitz

Quantum walks, the quantum mechanical counterpart of classical random walks, is an advanced tool for building quantum algorithms that has been recently shown to constitute a universal model of quantum computation. Quantum walks is now a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca

We investigate in real-life conditions and with very high accuracy the dynamics of body rotation, or yawing, of walking pedestrians - an highly complex task due to the wide variety in shapes, postures and walking gestures. We propose a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-21 Joris Willems , Alessandro Corbetta , Vlado Menkovski , Federico Toschi

I describe a new method for computing trace anomalies in quantum field theories which makes use of path-integrals for particles moving in curved spaces. After presenting the main ideas of the method, I discuss how it is connected to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Fiorenzo Bastianelli

Pathway idea is a switching mechanism by which one can go from one functional form to another, and to yet another. It is shown that through a parameter $\alpha$, called the pathway parameter, one can connect generalized type-1 beta family…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Nicy Sebastian , Dhannya P. Joseph , Seema S. Nair

The analysis of GPS trajectories is a well-studied problem in Urban Computing and has been used to track people. Analyzing people mobility and identifying the transportation mode used by them is essential for cities that want to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 I. Cardoso-Pereira , J. B. Borges , P. H. Barros , A. F. Loureiro , O. A. Rosso , H. S. Ramos

A fundamentally different approach to path integral quantum mechanics in curved space-time is presented, as compared to the standard approaches currently available in the literature. Within the context of scalar particle propagation in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 Dinesh Singh , Nader Mobed

Discrete pedestrian simulation models are viable alternatives to particle based approaches based on a continuous spatial representation. The effects of discretisation, however, also imply some difficulties in modelling certain phenomena…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Stefania Bandini , Luca Crociani , Giuseppe Vizzari

Path integrals constitute powerful representations for both quantum and stochastic dynamics. Yet despite many decades of intensive studies, there is no consensus on how to formulate them for dynamics in curved space, or how to make them…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-27 Mingnan Ding , Xiangjun Xing

We present a stochastic path integral formalism for continuous quantum measurement that enables the analysis of rare events using action methods. By doubling the quantum state space to a canonical phase space, we can write the joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-16 A. Chantasri , J. Dressel , A. N. Jordan