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Anomalous diffusion is frequently described by scaled Brownian motion (SBM), a Gaussian process with a power-law time dependent diffusion coefficient. Its mean squared displacement is $\langle x^2(t)\rangle\simeq\mathscr{K}(t)t$ with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 J. -H. Jeon , A. V. Chechkin , R. Metzler

We derive the steady state properties of a general directed ``sandpile'' model in one dimension. Using a central limit theorem for dependent random variables we find the precise conditions for the model to belong to the universality class…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M A Stapleton , K Christensen

The general covariance of the diffusion equation is exploited in order to explore the curvature effects appearing on brownian motion over a d-dimensional curved manifold. We use the local frame defined by the so called Riemann normal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pavel Castro-Villarreal

Quantifying the universality of avalanche observables beyond critical exponents is of current great interest in theory and experiments. Here, we improve the characterization of the spatio-temporal process inside avalanches in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-07 Thimothée Thiery , Pierre Le Doussal

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

By means of Molecular Dynamics simulations, we investigate the elementary process of avalanches and size segregation by surface flow in 2 dimensions: a single ball confined to moving along an inclined line consisting of balls. The global…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Dippel , G. G. Batrouni , D. E. Wolf

Mean-field coupled lattice maps are used to approximate the physics of driven threshold systems with long range interactions. However, they are incapable of modeling specific features of the dynamic instability responsible for generating…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric F. Preston , Jorge S. Sa Martins , John Rundle

We study a $d$-dimensional branching Brownian motion (BBM) among Poissonian obstacles, where a random trap field in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is created via a Poisson point process. In the soft obstacle model, the trap field consists of a positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Mehmet Öz

Avalanches in mean-field models can be mapped to memoryless branching processes defining a universality class. We present a reduced expression mapping a broad family of critical and subcriticial avalanches in mean-field models at the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-27 Jordi Baró , Álvaro Corral

The $d$-dimensional fractional Brownian motion (FBM for short) $B_t=((B_t^{(1)},...,B_t^{(d)}),t\in\mathbb{R})$ with Hurst exponent $\alpha$, $\alpha\in(0,1)$, is a $d$-dimensional centered, self-similar Gaussian process with covariance…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-23 Jérémie Unterberger

We provide a general model for Brownian motions on metric graphs with interactions. In a general setting, for (sticky) Brownian propagations on edges, our model provides a characterization of lifetimes and holding times on vertices in terms…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Fausto Colantoni , Mirko D'Ovidio , Flavia Tavani

We consider an active Brownian particle moving in a disordered two-dimensional energy or motility landscape. The averaged mean-square-displacement (MSD) of the particle is calculated analytically within a systematic short-time expansion. As…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-03 Davide Breoni , Michael Schmiedeberg , Hartmut Löwen

We study the impact on shape parameters of an underlying Bienaym\'e-Galton-Watson branching process (height, width and first hitting time), of having a non-spatial branching mechanism with infinite variance. Aiming at providing a…

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Mean field slider block models have provided an important entry point for understanding the behavior of discrete driven threshold systems. We present a method of constructing these models with an arbitrary frictional weakening function.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric F. Preston , Jorge S. Sá Martins , John B. Rundle

We study the shape of the outer envelope of a branching Brownian motion (BBM) in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 2$. We focus on the extremal particles: those whose norm is within $O(1)$ of the maximal norm amongst the particles alive at time $t$.…

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We show using numerical simulations that slowly driven skyrmions interacting with random pinning move via correlated jumps or avalanches. The avalanches exhibit power law distributions in their duration and size, and the average avalanche…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 S. A. Diaz , C. Reichhardt , D. P. Arovas , A. Saxena , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We analyze the scaling of avalanche precursors in the three dimensional random fuse model by numerical simulations. We find that both the integrated and non-integrated avalanche size distributions are in good agreement with the results of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Stefano Zapperi , Phani Kumar V. V. Nukala , Srđan Šimunović

We study the Brownian dynamics of a solid particle on a vibrating solid surface. Phenomenologically, the interaction between the two solid surfaces is modeled by solid friction, and the Gaussian white noise models the vibration of the solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-15 Prasenjit Das , Moshe Schwartz , Sanjay Puri

The scaled Brownian motion (SBM) is regarded as one of the paradigmatic random processes, featuring the anomalous diffusion property characterized by the diffusion exponent. It is a Gaussian, self-similar process with independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Hubert Woszczek , Aleksei Chechkin , Agnieszka Wylomanska