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We analyse large deviations of the dynamical activity in one-dimensional systems of diffusing hard particles. Using an optimal-control representation of the large-deviation problem, we analyse effective interaction forces which can be added…

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We introduce two discrete models of a collection of colliding particles with stored momentum and study the asymptotic growth of the mean-square displacement of an active particle. We prove that the models are superdiffusive in one dimension…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Edward Crane , Sean Ledger , Balint Toth

We study the dynamics of a single inertial run-and-tumble particle on a straight line. The motion of this particle is characterized by two intrinsic time-scales, namely, an inertial and an active time-scale. We show that interplay of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-21 Debraj Dutta , Anupam Kundu , Urna Basu

The random walk process underlies the description of a large number of real world phenomena. Here we provide the study of random walk processes in time varying networks in the regime of time-scale mixing; i.e. when the network connectivity…

Diffusion and anomalous diffusion are widely observed and used to study movement across organisms, resulting in extensive use of the mean and mean-squared displacement (MSD). However, these measures - corresponding to specific displacement…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Ohad Vilk , Motti Charter , Sivan Toledo , Eli Barkai , Ran Nathan

The mean-squared displacement (MSD) is an averaged quantity widely used to assess anomalous diffusion. In many cases, such as molecular motors with finite processivity, dynamics of the system of interest produce trajectories of varying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Chapin S. Korosec , David A. Sivak , Nancy R. Forde

In this paper we study random walks on dynamical random environments in $1 + 1$ dimensions. Assuming that the environment is invariant under space-time shifts and fulfills a mild mixing hypothesis, we establish a law of large numbers and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Oriane Blondel , Marcelo R. Hilario , Augusto Teixeira

In probability theory, reinforced walks are random walks on a lattice (or more generally a graph) that preferentially revisit neighboring `locations' (sites or bonds) that have been visited before. In this paper, we consider walks with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob G. Foster , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

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

A particle with internal unobserved states diffusing in a force field will generally display effective advection-diffusion. The drift velocity is proportional to the mobility averaged over the internal states, or effective mobility, while…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-13 Erik Aurell , Stefano Bo

We study arithmetic properties of short uniform random walks in arbitrary dimensions, with a focus on explicit (hypergeometric) evaluations of the moment functions and probability densities in the case of up to five steps. Somewhat to our…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Jonathan M. Borwein , Armin Straub , Christophe Vignat

We study single-file diffusion on a one-dimensional lattice with a random fractal distribution of hopping rates. For finite lattices, this problem shows three clearly different regimes, namely, nearly independent particles, highly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-08 L. Padilla , H. O. Mártin , J. L. Iguain

We discuss a reaction-diffusion model in one dimension subjected to an external driving force. Each lattice site may be occupied by at most one particle. The particles hop with asymmetric rates (the sum of which is one) to the right or left…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Jaime E. Santos , Gunter M. Schutz , Robin B. Stinchcombe

In this minireview we present the main results regarding the transport properties of stochastic movement with relocations to known positions. To do so, we formulate the problem in a general manner to see several cases extensively studied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Axel Masó-Puigdellosas , Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez

Locally activated random walks are defined as random processes, whose dynamical parameters are modified upon visits to given activation sites. Such dynamics naturally emerge in living systems as varied as immune and cancer cells interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-20 Julien Brémont , Theresa Jakuszeit , Olivier Bénichou , Raphael Voituriez

Diffusion in a multidimensional energy surface with minima and barriers is a problem of importance in statistical mechanics and also has wide applications, such as protein folding. To understand it in such a system, we carry out theory and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-29 Subhajit Acharya , Biman Bagchi

We investigate random walks on a lattice with imperfect traps. In one dimension, we perturbatively compute the survival probability by reducing the problem to a particle diffusing on a closed ring containing just one single trap. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Timo Aspelmeier , Jérôme Magnin , Willi Graupner , Uwe C. Täuber

We consider the single-file dynamics of $N$ identical random walkers moving with diffusivity $D$ in one dimension (walkers bounce off each other when attempting to overtake). Additionally, we require that the separation between neighboring…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-03 Santos Bravo Yuste , A. Baumgaertner , E. Abad

We study the winding behavior of random walks on two oriented square lattices. One common feature of these walks is that they are bound to revolve clockwise. We also obtain quantitative results of transience/recurrence for each walk.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Gianluca Bosi , Yiping Hu , Yuval Peres

We derive a perturbation expansion for general self-interacting random walks, where steps are made on the basis of the history of the path. Examples of models where this expansion applies are reinforced random walk, excited random walk, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Remco van der Hofstad , Mark Holmes