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Multiparticle production processes provide valuable information about the mechanism of the conversion of the initial energy of projectiles into a number of secondaries by measuring their multiplicity distributions and their distributions in…

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The temporal statistics exhibited by written correspondence appear to be media dependent, with features which have so far proven difficult to characterize. We explain the origin of these difficulties by disentangling the role of spontaneous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Formentin , A. Lovison , A. Maritan , G. Zanzotto

Two-sample network hypothesis testing is an important inference task with applications across diverse fields such as medicine, neuroscience, and sociology. Many of these testing methodologies operate under the implicit assumption that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-28 Ayushi Saxena , Vince Lyzinski

Power-law distributions are common, particularly in social physics. Here, we explore whether power-laws might arise as a consequence of a general variational principle for stochastic processes. We describe communities of 'social particles',…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-12-30 G. J. Peterson , K. A. Dill

Extreme events can come either from point processes, when the size or energy of the events is above a certain threshold, or from time series, when the intensity of a signal surpasses a threshold value. We are particularly concerned by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-26 Alvaro Corral

The dynamics of a test particle interacting with diffusing impurities in one dimension is investigated analytically and numerically. In the absence of an applied external force, the dynamics of the particle can be characterized by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lasse Laurson , Mikko J. Alava

Wave propagation in time-varying media enables unique control of energy transport by breaking energy conservation through temporal modulation. Among the resulting phenomena, temporal disorder-random fluctuations in material parameters-can…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

We study the propagation of waves in a medium in which the wave velocity fluctuates randomly in time. We prove that at long times, the statistical distribution of the wave energy is log-normal, with the average energy growing exponentially.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-01 R. Carminati , H. Chen , R. Pierrat , B. Shapiro

We study the relaxation of a Brownian particle with long range memory under confinement in one dimension. The particle diffuses in an arbitrary confining potential and resets at random times to previously visited positions, chosen with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-15 Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

Nonlinear stochastic differential equations generating signals with 1/f spectrum have been used so far to describe socio-economical systems. In this paper we consider the motion of a Brownian particle in an inhomogeneous environment such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Rytis Kazakevicius , Julius Ruseckas

Monte carlo simulation of paths of a large number of impinging electrons in a multi-layered solid allows to define area of spreading electrons (A) to capture overall behavior of the solid. This parameter 'A' follows power law with electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-11 Moirangthem Shubhakanta Singh , R. K. Brojen Singh

It is well known that the imposition of a constraint can transform the properties of critical systems. Early work on this phenomenon by Essam and Garelick, Fisher, and others, focused on the effects of constraints on the leading critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-17 Nickolay Izmailian , Ralph Kenna

The patterns of motion of mobile agents has received recently wide attention in the literature. There is a number of recent studies centered around the motion behavior of many agents ranging from albatrosses to human beings. Special…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-04-26 R. Mansilla

Starting from the BBGKY hierarchy, describing the kinetics of nonlinear particle system, we obtain the relevant entropy and stationary distribution function. Subsequently, by employing the Lorentz transformations we propose the relativistic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-12 G. Kaniadakis

In the course of evolution, proteins undergo important changes in their amino acid sequences, while their three-dimensional folded structure and their biological function remain remarkably conserved. Thanks to modern sequencing techniques,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-07 Simona Cocco , Christoph Feinauer , Matteo Figliuzzi , Remi Monasson , Martin Weigt

The power law is useful in describing count phenomena such as network degrees and word frequencies. With a single parameter, it captures the main feature that the frequencies are linear on the log-log scale. Nevertheless, there have been…

Applications · Statistics 2024-07-24 Clement Lee , Emma Eastoe , Aiden Farrell

Diffusion of electrons in a two-dimensional system with time-dependent random potentials is investigated numerically. In the absence of spin-orbit scattering, the conductivity shows universal weak localization correction. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takeshi Nakanishi , Tomi Ohtsuki

A mass ejection model in a time-dependent random environment with both temporal and spatial correlations is introduced. When the environment has a finite correlation length, individual particle trajectories are found to diffuse at large…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-28 Giorgio Krstulovic , Rehab Bitane , Jeremie Bec

Many time series produced by complex systems are empirically found to follow power-law distributions with different exponents $\alpha$. By permuting the independently drawn samples from a power-law distribution, we present non-trivial…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-05-24 Fangjian Guo , Dan Yang , Zimo Yang , Zhi-Dan Zhao , Tao Zhou

The present paper is devoted to the relativistic statistical theory, introduced in Phys. Rev. E {\bf 66} (2002) 056125 and Phys. Rev. E {\bf 72} (2005) 036108, predicting the particle distribution function $p(E)= \exp_{\kappa}…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-20 G. Kaniadakis