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We examine effects on primordial nucleosynthesis from a truly random spatial distribution in the baryon-to-photon ratio ($\eta$). We generate stochastic fluctuation spectra characterized by different spectral indices and root-mean-square…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hannu Kurki-Suonio , Karsten Jedamzik , Grant J. Mathews

Statistical properties of the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma fluctuations are studied in ohmically heated plasmas in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. For the first time, plasma fluctuations as well as parameters that describe the fluctuations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 R. Kube , A. Theodorsen , O. E. Garcia , D. Brunner , B. LaBombard , J. L. Terry

A model of interacting random walkers is presented and shown to give rise to patterns consisting in periodic arrangements of fluctuating particle clusters. The model represents biological individuals that die or reproduce at rates depending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristobal Lopez , Emilio Hernandez-Garcia

The general relationship between an arbitrary frequency distribution and the expectation value of the frequency distributions of its samples is esablished. A set of combinations of expectation values whose value does not in general depend…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-10-05 Paolo Rossi

Plasma density fluctuations in the edge plasma of the RFX-mod device are measured through the Gas Puffing Imaging Diagnostics. Statistical features of the signal are quantified in terms of the Probability Distribution Function (PDF), and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Sattin , P. Scarin , M. Agostini , R. Cavazzana , G. Serianni , M. Spolaore , N. Vianello

Analytical work probability distributions for open classical systems are scarce; they can only be calculated in a few examples. In this work, I present a new method to derive such quantities for weakly driven processes in the overdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-09 Pierre Nazé

Recently, progress has been made in the theory of turbulence, which provides a framework on how a deterministic process changes to a stochastic one owing to the change in thermodynamic states. It is well known that, in the framework of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-27 Liteng Yang , Yuliang Liu , Jing Liu , Hongxuan Li , Wei Chen

Propagating slow magneto-acoustic waves are often observed in polar plumes and active region fan loops. The observed periodicities of these waves range from a few minutes to few tens of minutes and their amplitudes were found to decay…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , T. Van Doorsselaere

Statistical fluctuation problems are faced by all quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols under finite-key condition. Most of the current statistical fluctuation analysis methods work based on independent random samples, however, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Hongxin Li , Haodong Jiang , Ming Gao , Zhi Ma , Chuangui Ma , Wei Wang

We investigate the phenomenon of parametric instability in discrete models of spatiotemporally modulated materials. These materials are celebrated in part because they exhibit nonreciprocal transmission characteristics. However, parametric…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

The standard definition of particle number fluctuations based on point-like particles neglects the excluded volume effect. This leads to a large and systematic finite-size scaling and an unphysical surface term in the isothermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Peter Krüger

We study the work fluctuations of a particle, confined to a moving harmonic potential, under the influence of friction and external Poissonian shot noise. The asymmetry of the noise induces an effective nonlinearity in the potential, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Baule , E. G. D. Cohen

Based on a stochastic model for intermittent fluctuations in the boundary region of magnetically confined plasmas, an expression for the level crossing rate is derived from the joint distribution of the process and its derivative. From this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Audun Theodorsen , Odd Erik Garcia

Radio waves propagating from distant pulsars in the interstellar medium (ISM), are refracted by electron density inhomogeneities, so that the intensity of observed pulses fluctuates with time. The theory relating the observed pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanislav Boldyrev , Carl R. Gwinn

Across a large range of scales, accreting sources show remarkably similar patterns of variability, most notably the log-normality of the luminosity distribution and the linear root-mean square (rms)-flux relationship. These results are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Samuel G. D. Turner , Christopher S. Reynolds

We investigate the intermittency of magnetic turbulence as measured in Reversed Field Pinch plasmas. We show that the Probability Distribution Functions of magnetic field differences are not scale invariant, that is the wings of these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Carbone , L. Sorriso-Valvo , E. Martines , V. Antoni , P. Veltri

In this paper we investigate the normal and the large fluctuations of additive functionals associated with a stochastic process under a general non-Poissonian resetting mechanism. Cumulative functionals of regenerative processes are very…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Marco Zamparo

We study resonant response of an underdamped nanomechanical resonator with fluctuating frequency. The fluctuations are due to diffusion of molecules or microparticles along the resonator. They lead to broadening and change of shape of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Atalaya , A. Isacsson , M. I. Dykman

By considering subexponential contributions in large deviation theory, we determine the fine structure in the probability distribution of the observable displacement of a bead coupled to a molecular motor. More generally, for any stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-11 Patrick Pietzonka , Eva Zimmermann , Udo Seifert

The probability density function of single-point velocity fluctuations in turbulence is studied systematically using Fourier coefficients in the energy-containing range. In ideal turbulence where energy-containing motions are random and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Mouri , M. Takaoka , A. Hori , Y. Kawashima