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Anomalous-diffusion, the departure of the spreading dynamics of diffusing particles from the traditional law of Brownian-motion, is a signature feature of a large number of complex soft-matter and biological systems. Anomalous-diffusion…

In this paper we analyze a coupling between the very large jumps in physical and operational times as applied to anomalous diffusion. The approach is based on subordination of a skewed Levy-stable process by its inverse to get two types of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky , Karina Weron

We study diffusion of a particle in a system composed of K parallel channels, where the transition rates within the channels are quenched random variables whereas the inter-channel transition rate v is homogeneous. A variant of the strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Juhász , F. Iglói

Expanding media are typical in many different fields, e.g. in Biology and Cosmology. In general, a medium expansion (contraction) brings about dramatic changes in the behavior of diffusive transport properties. Here, we focus on such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-27 F. Le Vot , E. Abad , S. B. Yuste

Multiple scattering is a process in which a particle is repeatedly deflected by other particles. In an overwhelming majority of cases, the ensuing random walk can successfully be described through Gaussian, or normal, statistics. However,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Martine Chevrollier

Anomalous diffusion, manifest as a nonlinear temporal evolution of the position mean square displacement, and/or non-Gaussian features of the position statistics, is prevalent in biological transport processes. Likewise, collective behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-01 Andrea Cairoli , Chiu Fan Lee

We demonstrate that continuous time random walks in which successive waiting times are correlated by Gaussian statistics lead to anomalous diffusion with mean squared displacement <r^2(t)>~t^{2/3}. Long-ranged correlations of the waiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Vincent Tejedor , Ralf Metzler

Probing the anomalous nanoscale intermixing using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in Pt/Ti bilayer we reveal the superdiffusive nature of interfacial atomic transport. It is shown that the Pt atoms undergo anomalous atomic transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-18 P. Süle , M. Menyhárd

We experimentally study anomalous diffusion of ultra-cold atoms in a one dimensional polarization optical lattice. The atomic spatial distribution is recorded at different times and its dynamics and shape are analyzed. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Yoav Sagi , Miri Brook , Ido Almog , Nir Davidson

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

We survey recent results of normal and anomalous diffusion of two types of random motions with long memory in ${\Bbb R}^d$ or ${\Bbb Z}^d$. The first class consists of random walks on ${\Bbb Z}^d$ in divergence-free random drift field,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Bálint Tóth

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

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 causes of anomalous dispersion in Darcy-scale porous media characterized by spatially heterogeneous hydraulic properties. Spatial variability in hydraulic conductivity leads to spatial variability in the flow properties through…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Alessandro Comolli , Marco Dentz

Variable Speed Generalized L\'{e}vy Walks (VGLWs) are a class of spatio-temporally coupled stochastic processes that unify a broad range of previously studied models within a single parametrized framework. Their dynamics consist of discrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-19 Abhijit Bera , Kevin E. Bassler

Continuous-time random walks combining diffusive scattering and ballistic propagation on lattices model a class of L\'evy walks. The assumption that transitions in the scattering phase occur with exponentially-distributed waiting times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Giampaolo Cristadoro , Thomas Gilbert , Marco Lenci , David P. Sanders

Reaction-diffusion equations deliver a versatile tool for the description of reactions in inhomogeneous systems under the assumption that the characteristic reaction scales and the scales of the inhomogeneities in the reactant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. G. W. Schmidt , F. Sagues , I. M. Sokolov

The concept of diffusion in collisionless space plasmas like those near the magnetopause and in the geomagnetic tail is reexamined from a fundamental statistical point of view making use of the division of particle orbits into waiting…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

The diffusion of a particle in a crowded environment typically proceeds through three regimes: for very short times the particle diffuses freely until it collides with an obstacle for the first time, while for very long times diffusion the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Nguiya P. Neo , Gary W. Slater

This paper investigates L\'evy walks with random velocities, extending classical models beyond constant speed assumptions. We derive scaling limits, demonstrating that diffusion depends on interplay between heavy-tailed duration and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Hubert Woszczek , Marek A. Teuerle , Agnieszka Wyłomańska