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The relationship between anomalous superdiffusive behavior and particle trapping probability is analyzed on a rocking ratchet potential with spatially correlated weak disorder. The trapping probability density is shown, analytically and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-18 D. G. Zarlenga , G. L. Frontini , Fereydoon Family , C. M. Arizmendi

Based on the theory of continuous time random walks (CTRW), we build the models of characterizing the transitions among anomalous diffusions with different diffusion exponents, often observed in natural world. In the CTRW framework, we take…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-13 Trifce Sandev , Weihua Deng , Pengbo Xu

Drift diffusion models (DDMs) have found widespread use in computational neuroscience and other fields. They model evidence accumulation in simple decision tasks as a stochastic process drifting towards a decision barrier. In models where…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-12 Sicheng Liu , Alexander Fengler , Michael J. Frank , Matthew T. Harrison

We introduce the concept of Randomly Modulated Gaussian Processes as a unifying framework for modeling, analyzing and classifying anomalous diffusion models in heterogeneous media. This formulation incorporates correlations in the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yann Lanoiselée , Denis S. Grebenkov , Gianni Pagnini

Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed in various biological and soft matter systems. This anomalous dynamics is typically attributed to heterogeneous environments inducing spatiotemporal variations in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-20 Seongyu Park , Xavier Durang , Ralf Metzler , Jae-Hyung Jeon

When particles/molecules diffuse in systems that contain obstacles, the steady-state regime (during which the mean-square displacement scales linearly with time, $\left< r^2 \right> \sim t$) is preceded by a transient regime. It is common…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Nicholas Ilow , Gary W. Slater

Anomalous diffusion, in particular subdiffusion, is frequently invoked as a mechanism of motion in dense biological media, and may have a significant impact on the kinetics of binding/unbinding events at the cellular level. In this work we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , K. Lindenberg

We study the transmission of random walkers through a finite-size inhomogeneous material with a quenched, long-range correlated distribution of scatterers. We focus on a finite one-dimensional structure where walkers undergo random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-22 Piercesare Bernabó , Raffaella Burioni , Stefano Lepri , Alessandro Vezzani

The problem of eliminating fast-relaxing variables to obtain an effective drift-diffusion process in position is solved in a uniform and straightforward way for models with velocity a function jointly of position and fast variables. A more…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-13 Paul E. Lammert

Anomalous diffusion occurs at very different scales in nature, from atomic systems to motions in cell organelles, biological tissues or ecology, and also in artificial materials, such as cement. Being able to accurately measure the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Òscar Garibo i Orts , Miguel A. Garcia-March , J. Alberto Conejero

The diffusion process near low order synchro-betatron resonances driven by beam-beam interactions at a crossing angle is investigated. Macroscopic observables such as beam emittance, lifetime and beam profiles are calculated. These are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tanaji Sen

Giant diffusion, where the diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle in a periodic potential with an external force is significantly enhanced by the external force, is a non-trivial non-equilibrium phenomenon. We propose a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Kento Iida , Andreas Dechant , Takuma Akimoto

The diffusion model is used to calculate the time-averaged flow of particles in stochastic media and the propagation of waves averaged over ensembles of disordered static configurations. For classical waves exciting static disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-11 Azriel Z. Genack , Yiming Huang , Asher Maor , Zhou Shi

We consider random networks whose dynamics is described by a rate equation, with transition rates $w_{nm}$ that form a symmetric matrix. The long time evolution of the system is characterized by a diffusion coefficient $D$. In one dimension…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-04 Yaron de Leeuw , Doron Cohen

A model for anomalous transport of tracer particles diffusing in complex media in two dimensions is proposed. The model takes into account the characteristics of persistent motion that active bath transfer to the tracer, thus the model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Francisco J. Sevilla , Adriano Valdés-Gómez , Alexis Torres-Carbajal

In a recent paper, Michael J. Saxton proposes to interpret as anomalous diffusion the occurrence of apparent transient sub-diffusive regimes in mean-squared displacements (MSD) plots, calculated from experimental trajectories of molecules…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Nicolas Destainville , Aude Sauliere , Laurence Salome

Pattern formation in the classical and fractional Schnakenberg equations is studied to understand the nonlocal effects of anomalous diffusion. Starting with linear stability analysis, we find that if the activator and inhibitor have the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-06-21 Hatim Khudhair , Yanzhi Zhang , Nobuyuki Fukawa

Using exact expressions for the persistence probability and for the leading eigenvalue of the Focker-Planck operator of a random walk in a random environment we establish a fundamental relation between the statistical properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , H. Rieger

The properties of a particle diffusing on a one-dimensional lattice where at each site a random barrier and a random trap act simultaneously on the particle are investigated by numerical and analytical techniques. The combined effect of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Achille Giacometti , K. P. N. Murthy

Diffusion has been widely used to describe a random walk of particles or waves, and it requires only one parameter -- the diffusion constant. For waves, however, diffusion is an approximation that disregards the possibility of interference.…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-23 Alexey G. Yamilov , Raktim Sarma , Brandon Redding , Ben Payne , Heeso Noh , Hui Cao