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We recently demonstrated that standard fixed-time lattice random-walk models cannot be modified to properly represent biased diffusion processes in more than two dimensions. The origin of this fundamental limitation appears to be the fact…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Michel G. Gauthier , Gary W. Slater

The diffusion equation and its time-fractional counterpart can be obtained via the diffusion limit of continuous-time random walks with exponential and heavy-tailed waiting time distributions. The space dependent variable-order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang , Zhuang Xu

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

We consider random walks in dynamic random environments given by Markovian dynamics on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. We assume that the environment has a stationary distribution $\mu$ and satisfies the Poincar\'e inequality w.r.t. $\mu$. The random walk…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-01 L. Avena , O. Blondel , A. Faggionato

Our previous work presented explicit formulas for the generalized zeta function and the generalized Ihara zeta function corresponding to the Grover walk and the positive-support version of the Grover walk on the regular graph via the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Takashi Komatsu , Norio Konno , Iwao Sato

In this paper, after a brief review of the general theory of dispersive waves in dissipative media, we present a complete discussion of the dispersion relations for both the ordinary and the time-fractional Cattaneo-Maxwell heat equations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-25 Andrea Giusti

In this note, we try to analyze and clarify the intriguing interplay between some counting problems related to specific thermalized weighted graphs and random walks consistent with such graphs.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thierry Huillet

The continuous time random walk model plays an important role in modeling of so called anomalous diffusion behaviour. One of the specific property of such model are constant time periods visible in trajectory. In the continuous time random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-01-04 Rafał Połoczański , Agnieszka Wyłomańska , Janusz Gajda , Monika Maciejewska , Andrzej Szczurek

We study a generalization of the standard trapping problem of random walk theory in which particles move subdiffusively on a one-dimensional lattice. We consider the cases in which the lattice is filled with a one-sided and a two-sided…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Yuste , L. Acedo

We discuss the derivation and the solutions of integro-differential equations (variable-order time-fractional diffusion equations) following as continuous limits for lattice continuous time random walk schemes with power-law waiting-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-22 Philipp Roth , Igor M. Sokolov

We analyze diffusion processes with finite propagation speed in a non-homogeneous medium in terms of the heterogeneous telegrapher's equation. In the diffusion limit of infinite-velocity propagation we recover the results for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-18 Trifce Sandev , Ljupco Kocarev , Ralf Metzler , Aleksei Chechkin

The position density of a "particle" performing a continuous-time quantum walk on the integer lattice, viewed on length scales inversely proportional to the time t, converges (as t tends to infinity) to a probability distribution that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alex D. Gottlieb

In this paper, we investigate the solutions for a generalized fractional diffusion equation that extends some known diffusion equations by taking a spatial time-dependent diffusion coefficient and an external force into account, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Long-jin Lv , Jian-Bin Xiao , Lin Zhang

In this paper, we derive the distribution of a two-dimensional (complex) random walk in which the angle of each step is restricted to a subset of the circle. This setting appears in various domains, such as in over-the-air computation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Karl-Ludwig Besser

We consider solvability of the generalized reaction-diffusion equation with both space- and time-dependent diffusion and reaction terms by means of the similarity method. By introducing the similarity variable, the reaction-diffusion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 C. -L. Ho , C. -C. Lee

In this paper continuous time random walk models approximating fractional space-time diffusion processes are studied. Stochastic processes associated with the considered equations represent time-changed processes, where the time-change…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Sabir Umarov

The iterated random walk is a random process in which a random walker moves on a one-dimensional random walk which is itself taking place on a one-dimensional random walk, and so on. This process is investigated in the continuum limit using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Turban

Solitons, which describe the propagation of concentrated beams of light through nonlinear media, can exhibit a variety of behaviors as a result of the intrinsic dissipation, diffraction, and the nonlinear effects. One of these phenomena,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-08-01 Jaime Cisternas , Tony Albers , Günter Radons

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in narrow random channels. We approximate the generalized solution to this equation by the corresponding one on a random graph. By making use of large deviation analysis we study the asymptotic wave…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Mark Freidlin , Wenqing Hu

A theoretical calculation is presented to describe the confined motion of transmembrane molecules in cell membranes. The study is analytic, based on Master equations for the probability of the molecules moving as random walkers, and leads…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. M. Kenkre , L. Giuggioli , Z. Kalay