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Using random walk simulations we explore diffusive transport through monodisperse sphere packings over a range of packing fractions, $\phi$, in the vicinity of the jamming transition at $\phi_{c}$. Various diffusion properties are computed…

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The typical transverse momentum $Q_s(t)$ (or "saturation" momentum) acquired by a hard particle propagating through a $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM plasma increases over time like $t^\gamma$, with an anomalous exponent $\gamma>1/2$ characteristic of…

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We study quantum gravitational effect on a two-dimensional open universe with one particle by means of a string bit model. We find that matter is necessarily homogeneously distributed if the influence of the particle on the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. -W. H. lee , R. B. Mann

We investigate the diffusive motion of an overdamped classical particle in a 1D random potential using the mean first-passage time formalism and demonstrate the efficiency of this method in the investigation of the large-time dynamics of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Gorokhov , G. Blatter

We consider a heavy quantum particle with an internal degree of freedom moving on the $d$-dimensional lattice $\bbZ^d$ (e.g., a heavy atom with finitely many excited states). The particle is coupled to a thermal medium (bath) consisting of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 W. De Roeck , J. Froehlich

We prove a superdiffusive central limit theorem for the displacement of a test particle in the periodic Lorentz gas in the limit of large times $t$ and low scatterer densities (Boltzmann-Grad limit). The normalization factor is $\sqrt{t\log…

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Classical limit of multiple soft graviton theorem can be used to compute the angular power spectrum of long wavelength gravitational radiation in classical scattering provided the total energy carried away by the radiation is small compared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Alok Laddha , Ashoke Sen

The effective field theory of quantum gravity generically predicts non-locality to be present in the effective action, which results from the low-energy propagation of gravitons and massless matter. Working to second order in gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Xavier Calmet , Basem Kamal El-Menoufi , Boris Latosh , Sonali Mohapatra

A model for quantized gravity coupled to matter in the form of a single scalar field is investigated in four dimensions. For the metric degrees of freedom we employ Regge's simplicial discretization, with the scalar fields defined at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

We consider a system of diffusing particles on the real line in a quadratic external potential and with repulsive electrostatic interaction. The empirical measure process is known to converge weakly to a deterministic measure-valued process…

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We introduce a L\'evy-Lorentz gas in which a light particle is scattered by static point scatterers arranged on a line. We investigate the case where the intervals between scatterers $\{\xi_i \}$ are independent random variables identically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Barkai , V. Fleurov , J. Klafter

In most of the literature on granular gases it is assumed that the restitution coefficient \epsilon, which quantifies the loss of kinetic energy upon a collision is independent on the impact velocity. Experiments as well as theoretical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolai V. Brilliantov , Thorsten Poeschel

In this paper, we calculate in a transparent way the spectral dimension of a quantum spacetime, considering a diffusion process propagating on a fluctuating manifold. To describe the erratic path of the diffusion, we implement a minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Leonardo Modesto , Piero Nicolini

We consider the Schrodinger equation with a generalized uncertainty principle for a free particle. We then transform the problem into a second ordinary differential equation and thereby obtain the corresponding propagator. The result of…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 F. Ghobakhloo , H. Hassanabadi

By taking into account both quantum mechanical and general relativistic effects, I derive an equation that describes limitations on the measurability of space-time distances as defined by a material reference system.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Amelino-Camelia

The change of the effective dimension of spacetime with the probed scale is a universal phenomenon shared by independent models of quantum gravity. Using tools of probability theory and multifractal geometry, we show how dimensional flow is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-16 Gianluca Calcagni

We study the long-time asymptotic behavior of the position distribution of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in two dimensions and show that the distribution at a time $t$ can be expressed as a perturbative series in $(\gamma t)^{-1}$, where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-24 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

The action for a relativistic free particle of mass m receives a contribution $-m R(x,y)$ from a path of length R(x,y) connecting the events $x^i$ and $y^i$. Using this action in a path integral, one can obtain the Feynman propagator for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Padmanabhan

A quantum mechanical description of particle propagation on the discrete spacetime of a causal set is presented. The model involves a discrete path integral in which trajectories within the causal set are summed over to obtain a particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven Johnston