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In this paper, a comprehensive examination of the temperature- and bias-dependent diffusion regimes of underdamped Brownian particles is presented. A temperature threshold for a transition between anomalous and normal diffusive behaviors is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-16 Trey Jiron , Marygrace Prinster , Jarrod Schiffbauer

Diffusive motion is a fundamental transport mechanism in physical and biological systems, governing dynamics across a wide range of scales -- from molecular transport to animal foraging. In many complex systems, however, diffusion deviates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Takuma Akimoto , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Tomoshige Miyaguchi , Takashi Uneyama , Eiji Yamamoto

This work extends the applications of Anderson-type Hamiltonians to include transport characterized by anomalous diffusion. Herein, we investigate the transport properties of a one-dimensional disordered system that employs the discrete…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 J. L. Padgett , E. G. Kostadinova , C. D. Liaw , K. Busse , L. S. Matthews , T. W. Hyde

Anomalous transport in a circular comb is considered. The circular motion takes place for a fixed radius, while radii are continuously distributed along the circle. Two scenarios of the anomalous transport, related to the reflecting and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-29 A. Iomin

Commonly, normal diffusive behavior is characterized by a linear dependence of the second central moment on time, $< x^2(t) >\propto t$, while anomalous behavior is expected to show a different time dependence, $ < x^2(t) > \propto…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

Given trajectory data, a domain-specific study area, and a user-defined threshold, we aim to find anomalous trajectories indicative of possible GPS spoofing (e.g., fake trajectory). The problem is societally important to curb illegal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arun Sharma , Mingzhou Yang , Majid Farhadloo , Subhankar Ghosh , Bharat Jayaprakash , Shashi Shekhar

We study the stochastic dynamics of a particle with two distinct motility states. Each one is characterized by two parameters: one represents the average speed and the other represents the persistence quantifying the tendency to maintain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-16 M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger

The overdamped dynamics of a charged particle driven by an uniform electric field through a random sequence of scatterers in one dimension is investigated. Analytic expressions of the mean velocity and of the velocity power spectrum are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kunz , R. Livi , A. Suto

We study Fluctuation Relations (FRs) for dynamics that are anomalous, in the sense that the diffusive properties strongly deviate from the ones of standard Brownian motion. We first briefly review the concept of transient work FRs for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-18 R. Klages , A. V. Chechkin , P. Dieterich

Einstein's theory of Brownian motion is revisited in order to formulate generalized kinetic theory of anomalous diffusion. It is shown that if the assumptions of analyticity and the existence of the second moment of the displacement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sumiyoshi Abe , Stefan Thurner

We introduce the concept of Randomly Modulated Gaussian Processes as a unifying framework for modeling, analyzing and classifying anomalous diffusion models in heterogeneous media. This formulation incorporates correlations in the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yann Lanoiselée , Denis S. Grebenkov , Gianni Pagnini

Strong anomalous diffusion phenomena are often observed in complex physical and biological systems, which are characterized by the nonlinear spectrum of exponents $q\nu(q)$ by measuring the absolute $q$-th moment $\langle |x|^q\rangle$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

Anomalous diffusion, which shows a deviation of transport dynamics from the framework of standard Brownian motion, is involved in the evolution of various physical, chemical, biological, and economic systems. The study of such random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Dezhong Li , Qiujin Yao , Zihan Huang

Anomalous diffusion or, more generally, anomalous transport, with nonlinear dependence of the mean-squared displacement on the measurement time, is ubiquitous in nature. It has been observed in processes ranging from microscopic movement of…

The passive and active motion of micron-sized tracer particles in crowded liquids and inside living biological cells is ubiquitously characterised by "viscoelastic" anomalous diffusion, in which the increments of the motion feature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-05 Wei Wang , Flavio Seno , Igor M. Sokolov , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We consider a generic system operating under non-equilibrium conditions. Explicitly, we consider an inertial classical Brownian particle dwelling a periodic structure with a spatially broken reflection symmetry. The particle is coupled to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 P. Hänggi , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

We briefly review some aspects of the anomalous diffusion, and its relevance in reactive systems. In particular we consider {\it strong anomalous} diffusion characterized by the moment behaviour $\langle x(t)^q \rangle \sim t^{q \nu(q)}$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-06 Fabio Cecconi , Davide Vergni , Angelo Vulpiani

The motion of self-propelled particles is modeled as a persistent random walk. An analytical framework is developed that allows the derivation of exact expressions for the time evolution of arbitrary moments of the persistent walk's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-28 Zeinab Sadjadi , M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

According to a traditional point of view Boltzmann entropy is intimately related to linear Fokker-Planck equations (Smoluchowski, Klein-Kramers, and Rayleigh equations) that describe a well-known nonequilibrium phenomenon: (normal) Brownian…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 A. O. Bolivar

A generalization of the Drude model is studied. On the one hand, the free motion of the particles is allowed to be sub- or superdiffusive; on the other hand, the distribution of the time delay between collisions is allowed to have a long…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Hermann Schulz-Baldes