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We experimentally investigate the transmission of light by dense atomic vapor. The light propagating in dense atomic vapor can be modeled as a L\'evy flight random walk. For such system, the step-length distribution can be modeled as…

The L\'evy walk process for a lower interval of an excursion times distribution ($\alpha<1$) is discussed. The particle rests between the jumps and the waiting time is position-dependent. Two cases are considered: a rising and diminishing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-25 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

Anomalous diffusion, manifest as a nonlinear temporal evolution of the position mean square displacement, and/or non-Gaussian features of the position statistics, is prevalent in biological transport processes. Likewise, collective behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-01 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

Levy walks (LWs) define a fundamental class of finite velocity stochastic processes that can be introduced as a special case of continuous time random walks. Alternatively, there is a hyperbolic representation of them in terms of partial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-11 M. Giona , M. D'Ovidio , D. Cocco , A. Cairoli , R. Klages

Almost all the media the particles move in are non-static. Depending on the expected resolution of the studied dynamics and the amplitude of the displacement of the media, sometimes the non-static behaviours of the media can not be ignored.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

We present theoretical and experimental results of L\'evy flights of light originating from a random walk of photons in a hot atomic vapor. In contrast to systems with quenched disorder, this system does not present any correlations between…

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

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

We study L\'evy walks in quenched disordered one-dimensional media, with scatterers spaced according to a long-tailed distribution. By analyzing the scaling relations for the random-walk probability and for the resistivity in the equivalent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Burioni , L. Caniparoli , A. Vezzani

Intermittent stochastic processes appear in a wide field, such as chemistry, biology, ecology, and computer science. This paper builds up the theory of intermittent continuous time random walk (CTRW) and L\'{e}vy walk, in which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

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

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

Levy walks define a fundamental concept in random walk theory which allows one to model diffusive spreading that is faster than Brownian motion. They have many applications across different disciplines. However, so far the derivation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-08 J. P. Taylor-King , R. Klages , S. Fedotov , R. A. Van Gorder

The random walk process in a nonhomogeneous medium, characterised by a L\'evy stable distribution of jump length, is discussed. The width depends on a position: either before the jump or after that. In the latter case, the density slope is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-29 Tomasz Srokowski

A recent model of Ariel et al. [1] for explaining the observation of L\'evy walks in swarming bacteria suggests that self-propelled, elongated particles in a periodic array of regular vortices perform a super-diffusion that is consistent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Gil Ariel , Jeremy Schiff

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

Heat-transport mechanism mediated by near-field interactions in plasmonic nanostructures networks is shown to be analogous to a generalized random-walk process. Existence of superdiffusive regimes is demonstrated both in linear ordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Riccardo Messina , Svend-Age Biehs , Maria Tschikin , Karl Joulain , Carsten Henkel

We consider a previously devised model describing Levy random walks (Phys. Rev E 79, 011110; 80, 031148, (2009)). It is demonstrated numerically that the given model describes Levy random walks with superdiffusive, ballistic, as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ihor Lubashevsky , Andreas Heuer , Rudolf Friedrich , Ramil Usmanov

Optical tweezers setup is often used to probe the motion of individual tracer particle, which promotes the study of relaxation dynamics of a generic process confined in a harmonic potential. We uncover the dependence of ensemble- and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

Recently, anomalous superdiffusion of ultra cold 87Rb atoms in an optical lattice has been observed along with a fat-tailed, L\'evy type, spatial distribution. The anomalous exponents were found to depend on the depth of the optical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-06 David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai