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The probability distribution of the maximum $M_t$ of a single resetting Brownian motion (RBM) of duration $t$ and resetting rate $r$, properly centred and scaled, is known to converge to the standard Gumbel distribution of the classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-19 Alexander K. Hartmann , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Single particle tracking of mRNA molecules and lipid granules in living cells shows that the time averaged mean squared displacement $\overline{\delta^2}$ of individual particles remains a random variable while indicating that the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. He , S. Burov , R. Metzler , E. Barkai

In this thesis, we study the diffusive and ballistic behaviors of random walk in random environment (RWRE) in an integer lattice with dimension at least 2. Our contributions are in three directions: a conditional law of large numbers and…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-08 Xiaoqin Guo

We study the equilibrium fluctuations of a tagged particle in finite-range simple exclusion processes on Z^d with biased single particle jump rates. It is known the variance of the tagged particle at time t is diffusive, that is on order…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sunder Sethuraman

We consider the evolution of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice in any dimension and subject to a potential consisting of a periodic part and a random part that fluctuates stochastically in time. If the random potential evolves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Jeffrey Schenker , F. Zak Tilocco , Shiwen Zhang

A physical-mathematical approach to anomalous diffusion may be based on fractional diffusion equations and related random walk models. The fundamental solutions of these equations can be interpreted as probability densities evolving in time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-27 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi

Levy walk (LW) process has been used as a simple model for describing anomalous diffusion in which the mean squared displacement of the walker grows non-linearly with time in contrast to the diffusive motion described by simple random walks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Santanu Das , Anupam Kundu

Using random walk simulations we explore diffusive transport through monodisperse sphere packings over a range of packing fractions, $\phi$, in the vicinity of the jamming transition at $\phi_{c}$. Various diffusion properties are computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Dan S. Bolintineanu , Gary S. Grest , Jeremy B. Lechman , Leonardo E. Silbert

Local diffusion coefficients in disordered systems such as spin glass systems and living cells are highly heterogeneous and may change over time. Such a time-dependent and spatially heterogeneous environment results in irreproducibility of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Takuma Akimoto , Eiji Yamamoto

In this paper we establish a moderate deviation principle of the hitting times for trajectories of sums of independent and identically distributed random variables. The main idea of proof is to convert the moderate deviations over a small…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Yuheng He

Consider a particle diffusing in a confined volume which is divided into two equal regions. In one region the diffusion coefficient is twice the value of the diffusion coefficient in the other region. Will the particle spend equal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 P. F. Tupper , Xin Yang

We investigate a diffusion process in heterogeneous media where particles stochastically reset to their initial positions at a constant rate. The heterogeneous media is modeled using a spatial-dependent diffusion coefficient with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-17 M. K. Lenzi , E. K. Lenzi , L. M. S. Guilherme , L. R. Evangelista , H. V. Ribeiro

In a growing number of strongly disordered and dense systems, the dynamics of a particle pulled by an external force field exhibits super-diffusion. In the context of glass forming systems, super cooled glasses and contamination spreading…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-18 Wanli Wang , Alessandro Vezzani , Raffaella Burioni , Eli Barkai

The diffusive transport of particles in anisotropic media is a fundamental phenomenon in computational, medical and biological disciplines. While deterministic models (partial differential equations) of such processes are well established,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Luke P. Filippini , Adrianne L. Jenner , Elliot J. Carr

We introduce a heterogeneous continuous time random walk (HCTRW) model as a versatile analytical formalism for studying and modeling diffusion processes in heterogeneous structures, such as porous or disordered media, multiscale or crowded…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-07 Denis S. Grebenkov , Liubov Tupikina

We study here the random diffusion model. This is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field $\phi$ driven by diffusive dynamics. The interesting feature of the dynamics is that the {\it bare} diffusion coefficient $D$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gene F. Mazenko

In this article, it is proved that for any cumulative distribution function with compact support and a specified t > 0, there exists a diffusion martingale which has this law at time t. The article proves existence; no claims are made about…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-01 John M. Noble

This article is accepted for publication in the "Annals I.H.P. Prob. & Stat.". We investigate the ballistic behavior of diffusions in random environment. We introduce conditions in the spirit of (T) and (T') of the discrete setting, cf.…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Tom Schmitz

We consider a system of diffusing particles on the real line in a quadratic external potential and with repulsive electrostatic interaction. The empirical measure process is known to converge weakly to a deterministic measure-valued process…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Martin Bender

In this work we investigate an inverse problem of identifying a spatially variable order in the one-dimensional subdiffusion model from the boundary flux measurement. The model involves a generalized Caputo derivative in time, and arises in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Jiho Hong , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian