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The Lorentz gas, a point particle making mirror-like reflections from an extended collection of scatterers, has been a useful model of deterministic diffusion and related statistical properties for over a century. This survey summarises…

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In this paper, we study a stochastically driven non-equilibrium quantum system where the driving protocols consist of hopping and waiting processes. The waiting times between two hopping processes satisfy a heavy-tailed distribution. By…

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A topic of intense current investigation pursues the question how the highly crowded environment of biological cells affects the dynamic properties of passively diffusing particles. Motivated by recent experiments we report results of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-28 Surya K. Ghosh , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Denis S. Grebenkov , Ralf Metzler

Anomalous diffusion and L\'evy flights, which are characterized by the occurrence of random discrete jumps of all scales, have been observed in a plethora of natural and engineered systems, ranging from the motion of molecules to climate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Chunxi Jiao , Georg A. Gottwald

Motivated by experimental progress in strongly coupled atom-photon systems in optical cavities, we study theoretically the quantum dynamics of atoms coupled to a one-dimensional dynamical optical lattice. The dynamical lattice is chosen to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 Wei Zheng , Nigel R. Cooper

We investigate particle transport in the honeycomb billiard that consists of connected channels placed on the edges of a honeycomb structure. The spreading of particles is superdiffusive due to the existence of ballistic trajectories which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-31 Michael Schmiedeberg , Holger Stark

The two--dimensional diffusive dynamics of test particles in a random electromagnetic field is studied. The synthetic electromagnetic fluctuations are generated through randomly placed magnetised ``clouds'' oscillating with a frequency…

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Many transport processes in nature exhibit anomalous diffusive properties with non-trivial scaling of the mean square displacement, e.g., diffusion of cells or of biomolecules inside the cell nucleus, where typically a crossover between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Andrea Cairoli , Adrian Baule

We investigate the motion of a single particle moving on a two-dimensional square lattice whose sites are occupied by right and left rotators. These left and right rotators deterministically rotate the particle's velocity to the right or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-27 Shradha Mishra , Sanchari Bhattacharya , Benjamin Webb , E. G. D. Cohen

The time-asymptotic behavior of undamped, nonlinear oscillators with a random frequency is investigated analytically and numerically. We find that averaged quantities of physical interest, such as the oscillator's mechanical energy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirone Mallick , Philippe Marcq

We study the link between relaxation to the equilibrium and anomalous superdiffusive motion in a classical N-body hamiltonian system with long-range interaction showing a second-order phase-transition in the canonical ensemble. Anomalous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Latora , A. Rapisarda , S. Ruffo

We study strongly chirped dissipative solitons of the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in normal and anomalous group-delay dispersion. Using a stationary-phase (adiabatic) approximation, we derive analytic spectra and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-30 V. L. Kalashnikov , E. Sorokin , A. Rudenkov , I. T. Sorokina

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…

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We present a model of diffusion in heterogeneous environment, which qualitatively reflects the transport properties of a polymeric membrane with carbon nanotubes. We derived Fokker-Planck equation from system of stochastic equations,…

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We explore the nature of anomalous diffusion of wave packets in disorder-free incommensurate multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The spectrum-averaged diffusion exponent is obtained by calculating the multifractal dimension of the energy…

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An analysis of the random lattice gas in the annealed limit is presented. The statistical mechanics of disordered lattice systems is briefly reviewed. For the case of the lattice gas with an arbitrary uniform interaction potential and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 A. P. Vieira , L. L. Goncalves

We report on the stationary dynamics in classical Sinai billiard (SB) corresponding to the unit cell of the periodic Lorentz gas (LG) formed by square lattice of length $L$ and dispersing circles of radius $R$ placed in the center of unit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valery B. Kokshenev , Eduardo Vicentini

We present new connections among anomalous diffusion (AD), normal diffusion (ND) and the Central Limit Theorem. This is done by defining a point transformation to a new position variable, which we postulate to be Cartesian, motivated by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Donald J. Kouri , Nikhil N. Pandya , Cameron L. Williams , Bernhard G. Bodmann , Jie Yao

The multiple scattering model of a quantum particle in a random Lorentz gas consisting of fixed point scatterers is considered in arbitrary dimension. An efficient method is developed to numerically compute the map of the density of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 David Gaspard , Jean-Marc Sparenberg

Diffusion occurs in numerous physical systems throughout nature, drawing its generality from the universality of the central limit theorem. Around a century ago it was realized that an extension to this type of dynamics can be obtained in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-04 Gadi Afek , Nir Davidson , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai