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We investigate multiple scattering of near-resonant light in a Doppler-broadened atomic vapor. We experimentally characterize the length distribution of the steps between successive scattering events. The obtained power law is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Nicolas Mercadier , Martine Chevrollier , William Guerin , Robin Kaiser

The recent availability of large databases allows to study macroscopic properties of many complex systems. However, inferring a model from a fit of empirical data without any knowledge of the dynamics might lead to erroneous interpretations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-31 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Sandro Rambaldi , Marc Barthelemy

We analyze random walk through fractal environments, embedded in 3-dimensional, permeable space. Particles travel freely and are scattered off into random directions when they hit the fractal. The statistical distribution of the flight…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Isliker , L. Vlahos

We consider a particle performing a stochastic motion on a one-dimensional lattice with jump widths distributed according to a power-law with exponent $\mu + 1$. Assuming that the walker moves in the presence of a distribution $a(x)$ of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-02 Luca Cattivelli , Elena Agliari , Fabio Sartori , Davide Cassi

Strong anomalous diffusion phenomena are often observed in complex physical and biological systems, which are characterized by the nonlinear spectrum of exponents $q\nu(q)$ by measuring the absolute $q$-th moment $\langle |x|^q\rangle$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

In biological, glassy, and active systems, various tracers exhibit Laplace-like, i.e., exponential, spreading of the diffusing packet of particles. The limitations of the central limit theorem in fully capturing the behaviors of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-22 Omer Hamdi , Stanislav Burov , Eli Barkai

The L\'evy walk model is a stochastic framework of enhanced diffusion with many applications in physics and biology. Here we investigate the time averaged mean squared displacement $\bar{\delta^2}$ often used to analyze single particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Daniela Froemberg , Eli Barkai

A length dependence of the effective mobility in the form of a power law, B ~ L^(1-1/alpha) is observed in dispersive transport in amorphous substances, with 0 < \alpha < 1. We deduce this behavior as a simple consequence of the statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. W. Kehr , K. P. N. Murthy , H. Ambaye

L\'{e}vy walk is a practical model and has wide applications in various fields. Here we focus on the effect of an external constant force on the L\'{e}vy walk with the exponent of the power-law distributed flight time $\alpha\in(0,2)$. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yao Chen , Xudong Wang , Weihua Deng

We study a simple one dimensional sluggish random walk model with subdiffusive growth. In the continuum hydrodynamic limit, the model corresponds to a particle diffusing on a line with a space dependent diffusion constant D(x)=…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-04 Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio , Satya N. Majumdar

When light travels through strongly scattering media with optical gain, the synergy between diffusive transport and stimulated emission can lead to lasing action. Below the threshold pump power, the emission spectrum is smooth and…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jason W. Merrill , Hui Cao , Eric R. Dufresne

We consider a random walk on one-dimensional inhomogeneous graphs built from Cantor fractals. Our study is motivated by recent experiments that demonstrated superdiffusion of light in complex disordered materials, thereby termed L\'evy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-19 A. Vezzani , R. Burioni , L. Caniparoli , S. Lepri

Continuous time random walks and Langevin equations are two classes of stochastic models for describing the dynamics of particles in the natural world. While some of the processes can be conveniently characterized by both of them, more…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-28 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

Multiple scattering is a process in which a particle is repeatedly deflected by other particles. In an overwhelming majority of cases, the ensuing random walk can successfully be described through Gaussian, or normal, statistics. However,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Martine Chevrollier

We consider a generalization of a one-dimensional stochastic process known in the physical literature as L\'evy-Lorentz gas. The process describes the motion of a particle on the real line in the presence of a random array of marked points,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Alessandra Bianchi , Giampaolo Cristadoro , Marco Lenci , Marilena Ligabò

We investigate the density decay in the pair-annihilation process A+A->0 in the case when the particles perform anomalous diffusion on a cubic lattice. The anomalous diffusion is realized via L\'evy flights, which are characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-16 Ingo Homrighausen , Anton A. Winkler , Erwin Frey

L\'{e}vy walk is a popular and more `physical' model to describe the phenomena of superdiffusion, because of its finite velocity. The movements of particles are under the influences of external potentials almost at anytime and anywhere. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

We argue that chaotic power-law interacting systems have emergent limits on information propagation, analogous to relativistic light cones, which depend on the spatial dimension $d$ and the exponent $\alpha$ governing the decay of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-07 Tianci Zhou , Shenglong Xu , Xiao Chen , Andrew Guo , Brian Swingle

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 introduce a persistent random walk model with finite velocity and self-reinforcing directionality, which explains how exponentially distributed runs self-organize into truncated L\'evy walks observed in active intracellular transport by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-07 Daniel Han , Marco A. A. da Silva , Nickolay Korabel , Sergei Fedotov