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In arbitrary spatial dimension $d\ge 1$, we study a generalized model of random walks in a time-varying random environment (RWRE) defined by a stochastic flow of kernels. We consider the quenched probability distribution of the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Hindy Drillick , Shalin Parekh

Motivated by a biased diffusion of molecular motors with the bias dependent on the state of the substrate, we investigate a random walk on a one-dimensional lattice that contains weak links (called "bridges'') which are affected by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Antal , P. L. Krapivsky

Active matter systems under confinement display persistent surface motion and a strong boundary affinity. However, despite extensive studies of their positional dynamics, much less attention has been given to the corresponding orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Elsa Baby , Manoj Gopalakrishnan , Vishwas V. Vasisht

Brownian motion is a central scientific paradigm. Recently, due to increasing efforts and interests towards miniaturization and small-scale physics or biology, the effects of confinement on such a motion have become a key topic of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-13 Elodie Millan , Maxime Lavaud , Yacine Amarouchene , Thomas Salez

We study diffusion-reaction processes on periodic square planar lattices and simple cubic (sc) lattices. Considered first is a single diffusing reactant undergoing an irreversible reaction upon first encounter with a stationary co-reactant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-22 E. Abad , T. Abil , A. Santos , J. J. Kozak

We study the recovery of one-dimensional semipermeable barriers for a stochastic process in a planar domain. The considered process acts like Brownian motion when away from the barriers and is reflected upon contact until a sufficient but…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Alexander Van Werde , Jaron Sanders

Random walks in random environments (RWRE) model transport in quenched disorder, incorporating spatial heterogeneity, trapping, random drift, and random geometry. This paper summarizes discrete and continuous time formulations, identifies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Hazel Brookfield , Wei Zhou , Ian Weatherby

We consider a supercritical catalytic branching random walk (CBRW) on a multidimensional lattice Z^d (d is positive integer). The main subject of study is the behavior of particles cloud in space and time. For CBRW on an integer line,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Ekaterina Vl. Bulinskaya

Reinforced random walks (RRWs), including vertex-reinforced random walks (VRRWs) and edge-reinforced random walks (ERRWs), model random walks where the transition probabilities evolve based on prior visitation history~\cite{mgr, fmk,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-22 Qinghua , Ding , Venkat Anantharam

Heterogeneous media constitute random disordered environments where transport is drastically hindered. Employing extensive molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of tracer particles in the Lorentz model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-14 Markus Spanner , Simon K. Schnyder , Felix Höfling , Thomas Voigtmann , Thomas Franosch

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

Using Brownian Dynamics, we study the dynamical behavior of a polymer grafted onto an adhesive surface close to the mechanically induced adsorption-stretching transition. Even though the transition is first order, (in the infinite chain…

The transport of self-propelled particles such as bacteria and phoretic swimmers through crowded heterogeneous environments is relevant to many natural and engineering processes, from biofilm formation and contamination processes to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-10 Roberto Alonso-Matilla , Brato Chakrabarti , David Saintillan

Above two dimensions, diffusion of a particle in a medium with quenched random traps is believed to be well-described by the annealed continuous time random walk (CTRW). We propose an approximate expression for the first-passage-time (FPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-05 Liang Luo , Lei-Han Tang

We study the statistics of random functionals $\mathcal{Z}=\int_{0}^{\mathcal{T}}[x(t)]^{\gamma-2}dt$, where $x(t)$ is the trajectory of a one-dimensional Brownian motion with diffusion constant $D$ under the effect of a logarithmic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-01 Mattia Radice

Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRWs) are jump processes with random waiting times between jumps. We study scaling limits for CTRWs where the distribution of jumps and waiting times is coupled and varies in space and time. Such processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-06 Peter Straka

In arXiv:1609.05666v1 [math.PR] a functional limit theorem was proved. It states that symmetric processes associated with resistance metric measure spaces converge when the underlying spaces converge with respect to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 George Andriopoulos

Sums of walks for charged particles (e.g. Hofstadter electrons) on a square lattice in the presence of a magnetic field are evaluated. Returning loops are systematically added to directed paths to obtain the unrestricted propagators.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Thomas Blum , Yonathan Shapir

We consider a random walk in confined geometry, starting from a site and eventually reaching a target site. We calculate analytically the distribution of the occupation time on a third site, before reaching the target site. The obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Condamin , V. Tejedor , O. Benichou

Random walks are studied on disordered cellular networks in 2-and 3-dimensional spaces with arbitrary curvature. The coefficients of the evolution equation are calculated in term of the structural properties of the cellular system. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-28 Tomaso Aste