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We propose a model of sub-diffusion in which an external force is acting on a particle at all times not only at the moment of jump. The implication of this assumption is the dependence of the random trapping time on the force with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-16 Sergei Fedotov , Nickolay Korabel

Power-law probability distributions are widely used to model extreme statistical events in complex systems, with applications to a vast array of natural phenomena ranging from earthquakes to stock market crashes to pandemics. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Wai-Keong Mok

The L\'evy-Lorentz gas describes the motion of a particle on the real line in the presence of a random array of scattering points, whose distances between neighboring points are heavy-tailed i.i.d. random variables with finite mean. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Marco Zamparo

The asymptotic behavior of velocity statistics in the tails of distributions and at high Reynolds numbers remains unresolved in turbulence. To investigate this behavior we measured the $n$th-order moments of the distributions of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-05 Dipendra Gupta , Gregory P. Bewley

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

We study the first passage time (FPT) problem in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using the recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation, we obtain an analytic expression for the FPT distribution which, in the large passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan , Mingzhou Ding

We derive theorems which outline explicit mechanisms by which anomalous scaling for the probability density function of the sum of many correlated random variables asymptotically prevails. The results characterize general anomalous scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Attilio L. Stella , Fulvio Baldovin

In biological, glassy, and active systems, various tracers exhibit Laplace-like, i.e., exponential, spreading of the diffusing packet of particles. The limitations of the central limit theorem in fully capturing the behaviors of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-22 Omer Hamdi , Stanislav Burov , Eli Barkai

Through the analysis of unbiased random walks on fractal trees and continuous time random walks, we show that even if a process is characterized by a mean square displacement (MSD) growing linearly with time (standard behaviour) its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-16 Giuseppe Forte , Fabio Cecconi , Angelo Vulpiani

We have investigated scaling properties of the Aubry-Andr\'e model and related one-dimensional quasiperiodic Hamiltonians near their localisation transitions. We find numerically that the scaling of characteristic energies near the ground…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-09 Attila Szabó , Ulrich Schneider

We address this work to investigate some statistical properties of symbolic sequences generated by a numerical procedure in which the symbols are repeated following a power law probability density. In this analysis, we consider that the sum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 H. V. Ribeiro , E. K. Lenzi , R. S. Mendes , P. A. Santoro

We revisit the diffusion properties and the mean drift induced by an external field of a random walk process in a class of branched structures, as the comb lattice and the linear chains of plaquettes. A simple treatment based on scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-21 Giuseppe Forte , Raffaella Burioni , Fabio Cecconi , Angelo Vulpiani

Heterogeneous diffusion with spatially changing diffusion coefficient arises in many experimental systems like protein dynamics in the cell cytoplasm, mobility of cajal bodies and confined hard-sphere fluids. Here, we showcase a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-14 Prashant Singh

In previous work, we have predicted novel effects, such as exchange broadening, anomalous scaling of the localization length and a blue shift of the absorption spectrum with increasing disorder strength, for static disorder models described…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Eisfeld , S. M. Vlaming , S. Möbius , V. A. Malyshev , J. Knoester

We propose diffusion-like equations with time and space fractional derivatives of the distributed order for the kinetic description of anomalous diffusion and relaxation phenomena, whose diffusion exponent varies with time and which,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Chechkin , R. Gorenflo , I. M. Sokolov

In this work, we propose some numerical schemes for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion and anomalous diffusion limit. When the equilibrium distribution function is a Maxwellian distribution, it is well known that for an appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Nicolas Crouseilles , Hélène Hivert , Mohammed Lemou

We consider the random walk of a particle in a two-dimensional self-affine random potential of Hurst exponent $H=1/2$ in the presence of an external force $F$. We present numerical results on the statistics of first-passage times that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-08-31 Cecile Monthus , Thomas Garel

We use a large single particle tracking data set to analyze the short time and small spatial scale motion of quantum dots labeling proteins in cell membranes. Our analysis focuses on the jumps which are the changes in the position of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-08 Flor A. Espinoza , Stanly L. Steinberg

Anomalous diffusion processes, in particular superdiffusive ones, are known to be efficient strategies for searching and navigation by animals and also in human mobility. One way to create such regimes are L\'evy flights, where the walkers…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-22 Sarah de Nigris , Timoteo Carletti , Renaud Lambiotte

Diffusion is modeled on the recently proposed Hanoi networks by studying the mean- square displacement of random walks with time, <r^2>~t^{2/d_w}. It is found that diffusion - the quintessential mode of transport throughout Nature -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-15 S. Boettcher , B. Goncalves