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Levy flights and subdiffusive processes and their properties are discussed. We derive the space- and time-fractional transport equations, and consider their solutions in external potentials. An extensive list of references is included.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-26 Ralf Metzler , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Joseph Klafter

We present a model of anomalous diffusion consisting of an ensemble of particles undergoing homogeneous Brownian motion except for confinement by randomly placed reflecting boundaries. For power-law distributed compartment sizes, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-09 Gerald John Lapeyre

In this work the theory of diffusive shock acceleration is extended to the case of non-classical particle transport with L\'{e}vy flights and L\'{e}vy traps, when the mean square displacement grows nonlinearly with time. In this approach…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 A. A. Lagutin

Cosmic ray propagation is diffusive because of pitch angle scattering by waves. We demonstrate that if the high-amplitude magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with $\tilde B/\langle B\rangle \sim 1$ is present on top of the mean field gradient,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Mikhail V. Medvedev , Viktor V. Medvedev

The propagation of light that undergoes multiple-scattering by resonant atomic vapor can be described as a L\'evy flight. L\'evy flight is a random walk with heavy tailed step-size (r) distribution, decaying asymptotically as $P(r)\sim…

Anomalous diffusion phenomena occur on length scales spanning from intracellular to astrophysical ranges. A specific form of decay at large argument of the probability density function of rescaled displacement (scaling function) is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-23 Attilio L. Stella , Aleksei Chechkin , Gianluca Teza

The multiple scattering of photons in a hot, resonant, atomic vapor is investigated and shown to exhibit a L\'evy Flight-like behavior. Monte Carlo simulations give insights into the frequency redistribution process that originates the long…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Martine Chevrollier , Nicolas Mercadier , William Guerin , Robin Kaiser

Sub-diffusion in biological systems is conventionally treated as anomalous, requiring fractional derivatives, heavy-tailed waiting times, or fitted memory kernels. We argue that this anomaly is an artifact of an incomplete phase space.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Patrick BarAvi

The problem of the origin of cosmic rays in the shocks produced by supernova explosions at energies below the so called 'knee' (at ~3*10$^6$ GeV) in the energy spectrum is addressed, with special attention to the propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin , A. A. Lagutin , A. W. Wolfendale

L\'evy Flights are paradigmatic generalised random walk processes, in which the independent stationary increments---the "jump lengths"---are drawn from an $\alpha$-stable jump length distribution with long-tailed, power-law asymptote. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 A. Padash , A. V. Chechkin , B. Dybiec , I. Pavlyukevich , B. Shokri , R. Metzler

This work investigates the influence of a generic anomalous diffusion model on mass convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium, focusing on superdiffusive regimes. A mathematical model is developed, and tability analyses - both linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-08 Antonio Barletta , Pedro Vayssière Brandão , Florinda Capone , Roberta De Luca

Spatial spread of minority carriers produced by optical excitation in semiconductors is usually well described by a diffusion equation. The classical diffusion process can be viewed as a result of a random walk of particles in which every…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-14 Arsen Subashiev , Serge Luryi

By analyzing the displacement statistics of an assembly of horizontally vibrated bidisperse frictional grains in the vicinity of the jamming transition experimentally studied before, we establish that their superdiffusive motion is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-06 F. Lechenault , R. Candelier , O. Dauchot , J. P. Bouchaud , G. Biroli

We investigate the occurrence of anomalous diffusive transport associated with acoustic wave fields propagating through highly-scattering periodic media. Previous studies had correlated the occurrence of anomalous diffusion to either the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Salvatore Buonocore , Mihir Sen , Fabio Semperlotti

We present a numerical study of classical particles diffusing on a solid surface. The particles' motion is modeled by an underdamped Langevin equation with ordinary thermal noise. The particle-surface interaction is described by a periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Sancho , A. M. Lacasta , K. Lindenberg , I. M. Sokolov , A. H. Romero

We analyze random walk through fractal environments, embedded in 3-dimensional, permeable space. Particles travel freely and are scattered off into random directions when they hit the fractal. The statistical distribution of the flight…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Isliker , L. Vlahos

We are discussing long-time, scaling limit for the anomalous diffusion composed of the subordinated L\'evy-Wiener process. The limiting anomalous diffusion is in general non-Markov, even in the regime, where ensemble averages of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-16 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-13 Chenyue Guo , Yuchen Bi

Recent experiments on the propagation of light over a distance L through a random packing of spheres with a power law distribution of radii (a socalled L\'evy glass) have found that the transmission probability T \propto 1/L^{\gamma} scales…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 C. W. Groth , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

A correct description of cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion in turbulent plasma is essential for many astrophysical and heliospheric problems. This paper aims to present physical diffusion behavior of CRs in actual turbulent magnetic fields, model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Siyao Xu , Huirong Yan