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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

Diffusion and anomalous diffusion are widely observed and used to study movement across organisms, resulting in extensive use of the mean and mean-squared displacement (MSD). However, these measures - corresponding to specific displacement…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Ohad Vilk , Motti Charter , Sivan Toledo , Eli Barkai , Ran Nathan

For one-dimension Brownian motion in the confined system with the size $L$, the mean-squared displacement(MSD) defined by $\left \langle (x-x_0)^2 \right\rangle$ should be proportional to $t^{\alpha(t)}$. The power $\alpha(t)$ should range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-14 Yi Liao , Yu-Zhou Hao , Xiao-Bo Gong

Phase diagram based on the mean square displacement (MSD) and the distribution of diffusion coefficients of the time-averaged MSD for the stored-energy-driven L\'evy flight (SEDLF) is presented. In the SEDLF, a random walker cannot move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuma Akimoto , Tomoshige Miyaguchi

Continuous time random walks combining diffusive and ballistic regimes are introduced to describe a class of L\'evy walks on lattices. By including exponentially-distributed waiting times separating the successive jump events of a walker,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-02 Giampaolo Cristadoro , Thomas Gilbert , Marco Lenci , David P. Sanders

Continuous-time random walks combining diffusive scattering and ballistic propagation on lattices model a class of L\'evy walks. The assumption that transitions in the scattering phase occur with exponentially-distributed waiting times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Giampaolo Cristadoro , Thomas Gilbert , Marco Lenci , David P. Sanders

The paper presents a multidimensional model for nonlinear Markovian random walks that generalizes one we developed previously (Phys. Rev. E v.79, 011110, 2009) in order to describe the Levy type stochastic processes in terms of continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ihor Lubashevsky , Rudolf Friedrich , Andreas Heuer

Through the analysis of unbiased random walks on fractal trees and continuous time random walks, we show that even if a process is characterized by a mean square displacement (MSD) growing linearly with time (standard behaviour) its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-16 Giuseppe Forte , Fabio Cecconi , Angelo Vulpiani

Random walk is a fundamental concept with applications ranging from quantum physics to econometrics. Remarkably, one specific model of random walks appears to be ubiquitous across many fields as a tool to analyze transport phenomena in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Zaburdaev , S. Denisov , J. Klafter

We investigate the time averaged squared displacement (TASD) of continuous time random walks with respect to the number of steps $N$, which the random walker performed during the data acquisition time $T$. We prove that the TASD, and as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-15 Felix Thiel , Igor M. Sokolov

A random walk scheme, consisting of alternating phases of regular Brownian motion and L\'evy walks, is proposed as a model for run-and-tumble bacterial motion. Within the continuous-time random walk approach we obtain the long-time and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Felix Thiel , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Igor M. Sokolov

Inspired by the collective phenomenon of territorial emergence, whereby animals move and interact through the scent marks they deposit, we study the dynamics of a 1D Brownian walker in a random environment consisting of confining boundaries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-17 Luca Giuggioli , Jonathan R. Potts , Stephen Harris

A continuous Markovian model for truncated Levy random walks is proposed. It generalizes the approach developed previously by Lubashevsky et al. Phys. Rev. E 79, 011110 (2009); 80, 031148 (2009), Eur. Phys. J. B 78, 207 (2010) allowing for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ihor Lubashevsky

We give an explicit formula for the mean square displacement of the random walk on the $d$-dimensional Manhattan lattice after $n$ steps, for all $n$ and all dimensions $d \geq 2$.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Nicholas R. Beaton , Mark Holmes

To solve the obscureness in measurement brought about from the weak ergodicity breaking appeared in anomalous diffusions we have suggested the time-averaged mean squared displacement (MSD) $\bar{\delta^2 (\tau)}_\tau$ with a integral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hyun-Joo Kim

A parametric oscillator with damping driven by white noise is studied. The mean square displacement (MSD) in the long-time limit is derived analytically for the case that the static force vanishes, which was not treated in the past work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-09 Tohru Tashiro

Recent experiments (G. Ariel, et al., Nature Comm. 6, 8396 (2015)) revealed an intriguing behavior of swarming bacteria: they fundamentally change their collective motion from simple diffusion into a superdiffusive L\'{e}vy walk dynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Sergei Fedotov , Nickolay Korabel

This work presents a generalized physical interpretation of unconventional dispersion asymmetries associated moving elastic solids. By shifting the notion from systems with time-variant material fields to physically traveling materials, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 M. A. Attarzadeh , M. Nouh

Correlated random walks (CRW) have been used for a long time as a null model for animal's random search movement in two dimensions (2D). An increasing number of studies focus on animals' movement in three dimensions (3D), but the key…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-11 Simon Benhamou

The Hamiltonian Mean-Field (HMF) model belongs to a broad class of statistical physics models with non-additive Hamiltonians that reveal many non-trivial properties, such as non-equivalence of statistical ensembles, ergodicity breaking, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-25 Piotr Fronczak , Agata Fronczak , Anna Chmiel , Julian Sienkiewicz