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Using random walk simulations we explore diffusive transport through monodisperse sphere packings over a range of packing fractions, $\phi$, in the vicinity of the jamming transition at $\phi_{c}$. Various diffusion properties are computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Dan S. Bolintineanu , Gary S. Grest , Jeremy B. Lechman , Leonardo E. Silbert

The topology of one-dimensional chiral systems is captured by the winding number of the Hamiltonian eigenstates. Here we show that this invariant can be read-out by measuring the mean chiral displacement of a single-particle wavefunction…

We examine an unexplored quantum phenomenon we call oscillatory localization, where a discrete-time quantum walk with Grover's diffusion coin jumps back and forth between two vertices. We then connect it to the power dissipation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Andris Ambainis , Krišjānis Prūsis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs , Thomas G. Wong

Active walker models have proved to be extremely effective in understanding the evolution of a large class of systems in biology like ant trail formation and pedestrian trails. We propose a simple model of a random walker which modifies its…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Subhashree Subhrasmita Khuntia , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Debasish Chaudhuri

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

Periodically-driven quantum systems can exhibit topologically non-trivial behaviour, even when their quasi-energy bands have zero Chern numbers. Much work has been conducted on non-interacting quantum-mechanical models where this kind of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-03 Callum W. Duncan , Patrik Ohberg , Manuel Valiente

We study the stochastic dynamics of a particle with two distinct motility states. Each one is characterized by two parameters: one represents the average speed and the other represents the persistence quantifying the tendency to maintain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-16 M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger

In this article, the continuous time random walk on the circle is studied. We derive the corresponding generalized master equation and discuss the effects of topology, especially important when Levy flights are allowed. Then, we work out…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan Calvo , B. A. Carreras , R. Sanchez , B. Ph. van Milligen

Understanding interactions between chiral active particles -- self-propelling and self-rotating entities -- is crucial for uncovering how chiral active matter self-organizes into dynamic structures. Although fluctuation-induced forces in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-25 Hashem Fatemi , Hamidreza Khalilian , Jalal Sarabadani , M. Reza Shaebani

When submerged in a chiral active bath, a passive object becomes a spinning ratchet imbued with odd transport properties. We present the most general Langevin dynamics for a rigid body in a chiral active bath, in the adiabatic limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-02 Cory Hargus , Federico Ghimenti , Julien Tailleur , Frédéric van Wijland

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

Chiral active fluids consist of self-spinning particles that rotate as a result of a continuous injection of energy on the microscopic scale (e.g., by activity or an external field). The hydrodynamics of such fluids is described by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-23 Laura Meissner-Oszer , Bogdan Cichocki , Jeffrey C. Everts

We study quantum transport on finite discrete structures and we model the process by means of continuous-time quantum walks. A direct and effective comparison between quantum and classical walks can be attained based on the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-08 E. Agliari , A. Blumen , O. Muelken

The behaviour of random quantum walks is known to be diffusive. Here we study discrete time quantum walks in weak stochastic gauge fields. In the case of position and spin dependent gauge field, we observe a transition from ballistic to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Jan Wójcik

It is investigated the statistical properties of random walks evolving on real configurations of a crumpled wire rigidly jammed in two dimensions. These crumpled hierarchical structures with complex topology are obtained from a metallic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. C. Donato , F. A. Oliveira , M. A. F. Gomes

We look at two possible routes to classical behavior for the discrete quantum random walk on the line: decoherence in the quantum ``coin'' which drives the walk, or the use of higher-dimensional coins to dilute the effects of interference.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Todd A. Brun , Hilary A. Carteret , Andris Ambainis

Chiral, directionally isotropic gyroid lattices are observed to exhibit nonclassical thermal effects incompatible with an asymmetric ("odd") second rank conductivity tensor but consistent with a third rank tensor property that provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-03 Roderic Lakes

In this paper, we discuss microscopic models for chiral active particles, i.e., rotating active units that exhibit circular or spinning motion. While non-chiral active particles are typically governed by self-propulsion and conservative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Caprini , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Edge states protected by bulk topology of photonic crystals show robustness against short-range disorder, making robust information transfer possible. Here, topological photonic crystals under long-range deformations are investigated.…

We present a probabilistic theory of random walks in turbid media with non-scattering regions. It is shown that important characteristics such as diffusion constants, average step lengths, crossing statistics and void spacings can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-18 Tomas Svensson , Kevin Vynck , Marco Grisi , Romolo Savo , Matteo Burresi , Diederik S. Wiersma