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Benjamini, Haggstrom, Peres and Steif introduced the concept of a dynamical random walk. This is a continuous family of random walks, {S_n(t)}. Benjamini et. al. proved that if d=3 or d=4 then there is an exceptional set of t such that…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christopher Hoffman

We consider a random walk with death in $[-N,N]$ moving in a time dependent environment. The environment is a system of particles which describes a current flux from $N$ to $-N$. Its evolution is influenced by the presence of the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Anna De Masi , Errico Presutti , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis , Maria Eulalia Vares

We consider a special case of random walk in random environment (RWRE) on Z^d where the environment is periodic (RWPE). Under natural conditions, we show that law of large numbers and central limit theorem holds. In the ballistic nearest…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Istvan Redl , Balint Veto

Motivated by novel results in the theory of complex adaptive systems, we analyze the dynamics of random walks in which the jumping probabilities are {\it time-dependent}. We determine the survival probability in the presence of an absorbing…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Shahar Hod

The extreme value statistics of active matter offer significant insight into their unique properties. A phase transition has recently been reported in a model of branching run-and-tumble particles, describing the spatial spreading of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine , Asaf Miron

We present an analysis of the stationary distributions of run-and-tumble particles trapped in external potentials in terms of a thermophoretic potential, that emerges when trapped active motion is mapped to trapped passive Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-06 Francisco J. Sevilla , Alejandro V. Arzola , Enrique Puga Cital

We evaluate the steady-state distribution and escape rate for an Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Particle (AOUP) using methods from the theory of large deviations. The calculation is carried out both for small and large memory times of the active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Eric Woillez , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte

We elaborate and validate a generalization of the renowned transition-path-sampling algorithm for a paradigmatic model of active particles, namely the Run-and-Tumble particles. Notwithstanding the non-equilibrium character of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-20 Thomas Kiechl , Thomas Franosch , Michele Caraglio

Motion in bounded domains is a fundamental concept in various fields, including billiard dynamics and random walks on finite lattices, with important applications in physics, ecology and biology. An important universal property related to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-27 Dario Javier Zamora , Roberto Artuso

Random walk in random environment (RWRE) is a fundamental model of statistical mechanics, describing the movement of a particle in a highly disordered and inhomogeneous medium as a random walk with random jump probabilities. It has been…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-11 Alexander Drewitz , Alejandro F. Ramírez

While there are many well-known and extensively tested results involving diffusion-limited binary reactions, reactions involving subdiffusive reactant species are far less understood. Subdiffusive motion is characterized by a mean square…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo , S. B. Yuste , Katja Lindenberg

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 consider random walks in random Dirichlet environment (RWDE) which is a special type of random walks in random environment where the exit probabilities at each site are i.i.d. Dirichlet random variables. On ${\mathbb Z}^d$, RWDE are…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Christophe Sabot

We study the survival probability and the growth rate for branching random walks in random environment (BRWRE). The particles perform simple symmetric random walks on the $d$-dimensional integer lattice, while at each time unit, they split…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-06 Francis Comets , Nobuo Yoshida

We consider a one-dimensional stationary stochastic process $x(\tau)$ of duration $T$. We study the probability density function (PDF) $P(t_{\rm m}|T)$ of the time $t_{\rm m}$ at which $x(\tau)$ reaches its global maximum. By using a path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-15 Francesco Mori , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We present the relativistic analogue of Anderson localization in one dimension. We use Dirac equation to calculate the transmission probability for a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle incident upon a rectangular barrier. Using the transfer matrix…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-10 Abhay Mehta , Sandeep Joshi , Sudhir R. Jain

We consider the Activated Random Walk model in any dimension with any sleep rate and jump distribution and ergodic initial state. We show that the stabilization properties depend only on the average density of particles, regardless of how…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Leonardo T. Rolla , Vladas Sidoravicius , Olivier Zindy

We revisit here a famous result by Sparre Andersen on persistence probabilities $\mathbf{P}(S_k>0 \;\forall\, 0\leq k\leq n)$ for symmetric random walks $(S_n)_{n\geq 0}$. We give a short proof of this result when considering sums of random…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Quentin Berger , Loïc Béthencourt

We study percolation transition of run and tumble particles (RTPs) on a two dimensional square lattice. RTPs in these models run to the nearest neighbour along their internal orientation with unit rate, and to other nearest neighbours with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Soumya K. Saha , Aikya Banerjee , P. K. Mohanty

We consider the survival probability of a particle in the presence of a finite number of diffusing traps in one dimension. Since the general solution for this quantity is not known when the number of traps is greater than two, we devise a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. A. Blythe , A. J. Bray