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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

L\'evy walk process is one of the most effective models to describe superdiffusion, which underlies some important movement patterns and has been widely observed in the micro and macro dynamics. From the perspective of random walk theory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-07 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

Recent experiments (G. Ariel, et al., Nature Comm. 6, 8396 (2015)) revealed an intriguing behavior of swarming bacteria: they fundamentally change their collective motion from simple diffusion into a superdiffusive L\'{e}vy walk dynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Sergei Fedotov , Nickolay Korabel

L\'evy walks are continuous time random walks with spatio-temporal coupling of jump lengths and waiting times, often used to model superdiffusive spreading processes such as animals searching for food, tracer motion in weakly chaotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bartłomiej Dybiec , Karol Capała , Aleksei Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

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

We introduce a persistent random walk model for the stochastic transport of particles involving self-reinforcement and a rest state with Mittag-Leffler distributed residence times. The model involves a system of hyperbolic partial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-16 Daniel Han , Dmitri V. Alexandrov , Anna Gavrilova , Sergei Fedotov

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

The method of approximate automodel solution for the Green's function of the time-dependent superdiffusive (nonlocal) transport equations (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49 (2016) 255002) is extended to the case of a finite velocity of carriers.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. B. Kukushkin , A. A. Kulichenko

This paper introduces a run-and-tumble model with self-reinforcing directionality and rests. We derive a single governing hyperbolic partial differential equation for the probability density of random walk position, from which we obtain the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-09 Sergei Fedotov , Daniel Han , Alexey O Ivanov , Marco A A da Silva

The L\'evy walk process with rests is discussed. The jumping time is governed by an $\alpha$-stable distribution with $\alpha>1$ while a waiting time distribution is Poissonian and involves a position-dependent rate which reflects a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

We consider super-diffusive L\'evy walks in $d \geqslant 2$ dimensions when the duration of a single step, i.e., a ballistic motion performed by a walker, is governed by a power-law tailed distribution of infinite variance and finite mean.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Itzhak Fouxon , Sergey Denisov , Vasily Zaburdaev , Eli Barkai

L\'{e}vy walks are a particular type of continuous-time random walks which results in a super-diffusive spreading of an initially localized packet. The original one-dimensional model has a simple schematization that is based on starting a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yurii Bystrik , Sergey Denisov

L\'evy walks (LWs) are spatiotemporally coupled random-walk processes describing superdiffusive heat conduction in solids, propagation of light in disordered optical materials, motion of molecular motors in living cells, or motion of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Pengbo Xu , Tian Zhou , Ralf Metzler , Weihua Deng

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

We investigate the dynamic impact of heterogeneous environments on superdiffusive random walks known as L\'evy flights. We devote particular attention to the relative weight of source and target locations on the rates for spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Dirk Brockmann

The motion of self-propelled particles is modeled as a persistent random walk. An analytical framework is developed that allows the derivation of exact expressions for the time evolution of arbitrary moments of the persistent walk's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-28 Zeinab Sadjadi , M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

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

Random walk is a fundamental concept with applications ranging from quantum physics to econometrics. Remarkably, one specific model of random walks appears to be ubiquitous across many fields as a tool to analyze transport phenomena in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Zaburdaev , S. Denisov , J. Klafter

We consider a broad class of Continuous Time Random Walks with large fluctuations effects in space and time distributions: a random walk with trapping, describing subdiffusion in disordered and glassy materials, and a L\'evy walk process,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 R. Burioni , G. Gradenigo , A. Sarracino , A. Vezzani , A. Vulpiani

Levy walk at the finite velocity is considered. To analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics of this process, the method of moments has been used. The asymptotic distributions of the moments (at $t\to\infty$) have been obtained for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-12 Viacheslav V. Saenko
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