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The L\'evy-Lorentz gas describes the motion of a particle on the real line in the presence of a random array of scattering points, whose distances between neighboring points are heavy-tailed i.i.d. random variables with finite mean. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Marco Zamparo

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

Motion of particles in many systems exhibits a mixture between periods of random diffusive like events and ballistic like motion. In many cases, such systems exhibit strong anomalous diffusion, where low order moments $< |x(t)|^q >$ with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Adi Rebenshtok , Sergey Denisov , Peter Hanggi , Eli Barkai

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

We show that Lagrangian measurements in active turbulence bear imprints of turbulent and anomalous streaky hydrodynamics leading to a self-selection of persistent trajectories - Levy walks - over diffusive ones. This emergent dynamical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-26 Rahul K. Singh , Siddhartha Mukherjee , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Among Markovian processes, the hallmark of L\'evy flights is superdiffusion, or faster-than-Brownian dynamics. Here we show that L\'evy laws, as well as Gaussians, can also be the limit distributions of processes with long range memory that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-10 Denis Boyer , Inti Pineda

In the Heliosphere, power-law particle distributions are observed e.g. upstream of interplanetary shocks, which can result from superdiffusive transport. This non-Gaussian transport regime may result from intermittent magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 Sophie Aerdker , Lukas Merten , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Julia Becker Tjus

Superdiffusion arises when complicated, correlated and noisy motion at the microscopic scale conspires to yield peculiar dynamics at the macroscopic scale. It ubiquitously appears in a variety of scenarios, spanning a broad range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Asaf Miron

In classical diffusion, particle step-sizes have a Gaussian distribution. However, in superdiffusion, they have power-law tails, with transport dominated by rare, long L\'evy flights. Similarly, if the time interval between scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Naixin Liang , Siang Peng Oh

Microorganisms, such as E.Coli, are known to display upstream behavior and respond rheotactically to shear flows. In particular, E.Coli suspensions have been shown to display strong sensitivity to spatial constrictions, leading to an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-24 Armin Maleki , Malihe Ghodrat , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study a two-dimensional diffusive motion of a tracer particle in restricted, crowded anisotropic geometries. The underlying medium is the same as in our previous work [J. Chem. Phys. 140, 044706 (2014)] in which standard, gaussian…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Michał Cieśla , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Igor Sokolov

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

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

Active particles such as swimming bacteria or self-propelled colloids are known to spontaneously organize into fascinating large-scale dynamic structures. The emergence of these collective states from the motility pattern of the individual…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-20 Hamid Karan , Gerardo E. Pradillo , Petia M. Vlahovska

The purpose of this paper is to implement a random death process into a persistent random walk model which produces subballistic superdiffusion (L\'{e}vy walk). We develop a Markovian model of cell motility with the extra residence variable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sergei Fedotov , Abby Tan , Andrey Zubarev

Overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. On top of translational and rotational diffusion, in the context of the presented model, the "active" particle is driven along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Borge ten Hagen , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

Spatial spread of minority carriers produced by optical excitation in semiconductors is usually well described by a diffusion equation. The classical diffusion process can be viewed as a result of a random walk of particles in which every…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-14 Arsen Subashiev , Serge Luryi

By analyzing the displacement statistics of an assembly of horizontally vibrated bidisperse frictional grains in the vicinity of the jamming transition experimentally studied before, we establish that their superdiffusive motion is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-06 F. Lechenault , R. Candelier , O. Dauchot , J. P. Bouchaud , G. Biroli

Investigating the behavior of noninteracting fermions subjected to local dephasing, we reveal that quasi-particle dephasing can induce superdiffusive transport. This superdiffusion arises from nodal points within the momentum distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-18 Yu-Peng Wang , Chen Fang , Jie Ren

The diffusion of active microscopic organisms in complex environments plays an important role in a wide range of biological phenomena from cell colony growth to single organism transport. Here, we investigate theoretically and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Juan L. Aragones , Shahrzad Yazdi , Alfredo Alexander-Katz