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This paper introduces the use of statistical distributions based on transport differential equations for clear distinction of transport modes within transient kinetic experiments. More specifically,novel techniques are developed for the…

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Microscale energy transport processes are crucial in microelectronics, energy harvesting devices, and emerging quantum materials. To study these processes, methods that can probe transport with conveniently tunable length scales are highly…

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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

In this paper we propose a new statistic capable of detecting non-Gaussianity in the CMB. The statistic is defined in Fourier space, and therefore naturally separates angular scales. It consists of taking another Fourier transform, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-08 Alex Lewin , Andreas Albrecht , Joao Magueijo

We present new developments of the laser-induced transient grating spectroscopy (TGS) technique that enable the measurement of large area 2D maps of thermal diffusivity and surface acoustic wave speed. Additional capabilities include…

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generation quality across many applications, but their ability to capture rare or extreme events in heavy-tailed distributions remains unclear. In this work, we show that traditional diffusion and…

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Generative modeling of spatio-temporal fields is crucial for a variety of applications, including stochastic weather generators and climate-model surrogates. However, many such fields exhibit complex dependence structures that vary across…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-06 Carrie J. Lei-Cramer , Jian Cao , Matthias Katzfuss

While Bernoulli sampling is extensively studied in tensor completion, t-CUR sampling approximates low-tubal-rank tensors via lateral and horizontal subtensors. However, both methods lack sufficient flexibility for diverse practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Bowen Su , Juntao You , HanQin Cai , Longxiu Huang

Anisotropic diffusion processes emerge in various fields such as transport in biological tissue and diffusion in liquid crystals. In such systems, the motion is described by a diffusion tensor. For a proper characterization of processes…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-11-14 Mario Heidernätsch , Michael Bauer , Günter Radons

We study the dynamics of micron-sized particles on a layer of motile cells. This cell carpet acts as an active bath that propels passive tracer particles via direct mechanical contact. The resulting nonequilibrium transport shows a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Robert Großmann , Lara S. Bort , Ted Moldenhawer , Setareh Sharifi Panah , Ralf Metzler , Carsten Beta

Simulations of charge transport in amorphous semiconductors are often performed in microscopically sized systems. As a result, charge carrier mobilities become system-size dependent. We propose a simple method for extrapolating a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Pascal Kordt , Thomas Speck , Denis Andrienko

We consider a model system in which anomalous diffusion is generated by superposition of underlying linear modes with a broad range of relaxation times. In the language of Gaussian polymers, our model corresponds to Rouse (Fourier) modes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-11 Assaf Amitai , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

The study of exoplanetary atmospheres epitomises a continuous quest for higher accuracy measurements. Systematic effects and noise associated with both the stellar activity and the instrument can bias the results and thus limit the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-03 C. Danielski , T. Kacprzak , G. Tinetti , P. Jagoda

Stochastic processes play a key role for modeling a huge variety of transport problems out of equilibrium, with manifold applications throughout the natural and social sciences. To formulate models of stochastic dynamics the conventional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-25 Massimiliano Giona , Andrea Cairoli , Rainer Klages

Information about the physical processes that generate the primordial fluctuations in the early universe can be gained by testing the Gaussian nature of the fluctuations through cosmic microwave background radiation (CBR) temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Xiaochun Luo

Last year in [Phys. Rev. E 102, 042121 (2020)] the authors studied an overdamped dynamics of nonequilibrium noise driven Brownian particle dwelling in a spatially periodic potential and discovered a novel class of Brownian, yet non-Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-22 Karol Białas , Jakub Spiechowicz

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) is a powerful tool for the investigation of dynamics covering a broad range of time and length scales. The two-time correlation function (TTC) is commonly used to track non-equilibrium dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 Anastasia Ragulskaya , Vladimir Starostin , Fajun Zhang , Christian Gutt , Frank Schreiber

We perform three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of two idealized regimes of stellar convection: a cooling-driven model (Model C) and an entropy-gradient-driven model (Model S). The two regimes exhibit striking contrasts: while Model S…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Youhei Masada , Tomoya Takiwaki , Nobumitsu Yoko

Swimming microorganisms rely on effective mixing strategies to achieve efficient nutrient influx. Recent experiments, probing the mixing capability of unicellular biflagellates, revealed that passive tracer particles exhibit anomalous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-04 Irwin M. Zaid , Jörn Dunkel , Julia M. Yeomans

The standard diffusive spreading, characterized by a Gaussian distribution with mean square displacement that grows linearly with time, can break down, for instance, under the presence of correlations and heterogeneity. In this work, we…

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