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It is commonly believed that melting occurs when mean square displacement (MSD) of a particle of crystalline solid exceeds a threshold value. This is known as the Lindemann criterion, first introduced in the year of 1910 by Lindemann.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-23 Sarmistha Sarkar , Chandramohan Jana , Biman Bagchi

Anomalous diffusion processes, in particular superdiffusive ones, are known to be efficient strategies for searching and navigation by animals and also in human mobility. One way to create such regimes are L\'evy flights, where the walkers…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-22 Sarah de Nigris , Timoteo Carletti , Renaud Lambiotte

The L\'evy walk is a non-Brownian random walk model that has been found to describe anomalous dynamic phenomena in diverse fields ranging from biology over quantum physics to ecology. Recurrently occurring problems are to examine whether…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Seongyu Park , Samudrajit Thapa , Yeongjin Kim , Michael A. Lomholt , Jae-Hyung Jeon

Dispersal is essential to the plethora of motile microorganisms living in porous environments, yet how it relates to movement patterns and pore space structure remains largely unknown. Here we investigate numerically the long-time dispersal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-06 T. Pietrangeli , R. Foffi , R. Stocker , C. Ybert , C. Cottin-Bizonne , F. Detcheverry

We present a multiscale analysis for the exit measures from large balls in Z^d, d\geq 3, of random walks in certain i.i.d. random environments which are small perturbations of the fixed environment corresponding to simple random walk. Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erwin Bolthausen , Ofer Zeitouni

This paper investigates L\'evy walks with random velocities, extending classical models beyond constant speed assumptions. We derive scaling limits, demonstrating that diffusion depends on interplay between heavy-tailed duration and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Hubert Woszczek , Marek A. Teuerle , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

We derive an expression for the mean square displacement of a particle whose motion is governed by a uniform, periodic, quantum multi-baker map. The expression is a function of both time, $t$, and Planck's constant, $\hbar$, and allows a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel K. Wojcik , J. Robert Dorfman

Let $V$ be a two sided random walk and let $X$ denote a real valued diffusion process with generator ${1/2}e^{V([x])}\frac{d}{dx}(e^{-V([x])}\frac{d}{dx})$. This process is known to be the continuous equivalent of the one dimensional random…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Arvind Singh

Diffusive motion is a fundamental transport mechanism in physical and biological systems, governing dynamics across a wide range of scales -- from molecular transport to animal foraging. In many complex systems, however, diffusion deviates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Takuma Akimoto , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Tomoshige Miyaguchi , Takashi Uneyama , Eiji Yamamoto

We consider transport properties for a non-homogeneous persistent random walk, that may be viewed as a mean-field version of the L\'evy-Lorentz gas, namely a 1-d model characterized by a fat polynomial tail of the distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-14 Roberto Artuso , Giampaolo Cristadoro , Manuele Onofri , Mattia Radice

Random walks provide a simple conventional model to describe various transport processes, for example propagation of heat or diffusion of matter through a medium. However, in many practical cases the medium is highly irregular due to…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-10 L. V. Bogachev

Molecular flow gas damping of mechanical motion in confined geometries, and its associated noise, is important in a variety of fields, including precision measurement, gravitational wave detection, and MEMS devices. We used two torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Stephan Schlamminger , Charles A. Hagedorn , Jens H. Gundlach

A novel first-order autoregressive moving average model for analyzing discrete-time series observed at irregularly spaced times is introduced. Under Gaussianity, it is established that the model is strictly stationary and ergodic. In the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-31 Cesar Ojeda , Wilfredo Palma , Susana Eyheramendy , Felipe Elorrieta

Recently observation of random walks in complex environments like the cell and other glassy systems revealed that the spreading of particles, at its tails, follows a spatial exponential decay instead of the canonical Gaussian. We use the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-23 Wanli Wang , Eli Barkai , Stanislav Burov

The recent availability of large databases allows to study macroscopic properties of many complex systems. However, inferring a model from a fit of empirical data without any knowledge of the dynamics might lead to erroneous interpretations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-31 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Sandro Rambaldi , Marc Barthelemy

L\'evy walk process is one of the most effective models to describe superdiffusion, which underlies some important movement patterns and has been widely observed in the micro and macro dynamics. From the perspective of random walk theory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-07 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

The effects of a "diffusing diffusivity" (DD), a stochastically time-varying diffusion coefficient, are explored within the frameworks of three different forms of fractional Brownian motion (FBM): (i) the Langevin equation driven by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-29 Wei Wang , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We use numerical simulations to study the behavior of 2D frictionless disk systems under cyclic shear as a function of reversal amplitude \gamma_r. Our studies focus on mean bulk and disk dynamics. These measurements suggest a crossover…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-11 Mitch Mailman , Michelle Girvan , Wolfgang Losert

Continuous time random walks and Langevin equations are two classes of stochastic models for describing the dynamics of particles in the natural world. While some of the processes can be conveniently characterized by both of them, more…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-28 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion has recently been observed in numerous biological and active matter system. The cause of the non-Gaussian distribution have been elaborately studied in the idea of a superstatistical dynamics or a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-02 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen