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Volcanic seismicity at Mt. Etna is studied. It is found that the associated stochastic process exhibits a subdiffusive phenomenon. The jump probability distribution well obeys an exponential law, whereas the waiting-time distribution…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sumiyoshi Abe , Norikazu Suzuki

Using numerical simulations and scaling theory we study the dynamics of the world-wide Web from the growth rules recently proposed in Ref. [1] with appropriate parameters. We demonstrate that the emergence of power-law behavior of the out-…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bosiljka Tadic

We study the stochastic behavior of heterogeneous diffusion processes with the power-law dependence $D(x)\sim|x|^{\alpha}$ of the generalized diffusion coefficient encompassing sub- and superdiffusive anomalous diffusion. Based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Andrey G. Cherstvy , Ralf Metzler

Social activities display bursty behavior characterized by heavy-tailed inter-event time distributions. We examine the bursty behavior of airplanes' arrivals in hub airports. The analysis indicates that the air transportation system…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-16 Hidetaka Ito , Katsuhiro Nishinari

The probability distribution of number of ties of an individual in a social network follows a scale-free power-law. However, how this distribution arises has not been conclusively demonstrated in direct analyses of people's actions in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-25 Lev Muchnik , Sen Pei , Lucas C. Parra , Saulo D. S. Reis , Jose S. Andrade, , Shlomo Havlin , Hernan A. Makse

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

Recent work on stochastic interacting particle systems with two particle species (or single-species systems with kinematic constraints) has demonstrated the existence of spontaneous symmetry breaking, long-range order and phase coexistence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Gunter M. Schütz

Turbulence is generally associated with universal power-law spectra in scale ranges without significant drive or damping. Although many examples of turbulent systems do not exhibit such an inertial range, power-law spectra may still be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Vasil Bratanov , Frank Jenko , David Hatch , Michael Wilczek

A power-law distance-dependent biased random walk model with a tuning parameter ($\sigma$) is introduced in which finite mean first passage times are realizable if $\sigma$ is less than a critical value $\sigma_c$. We perform numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-23 Christin Puthur , Prabha Chuphal , Snigdha Thakur , Auditya Sharma

Multiplicative random processes in (not necessaryly equilibrium or steady state) stochastic systems with many degrees of freedom lead to Boltzmann distributions when the dynamics is expressed in terms of the logarithm of the normalized…

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Time-asymmetric behavior as embodied in the second law of thermodynamics is observed in {\it individual macroscopic} systems. It can be understood as arising naturally from time-symmetric microscopic laws when account is taken of a) the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-06 Joel L. Lebowitz

We uncover a universal scaling law governing the dispersion of collective attention and identify its underlying stochastic criticality. By analysing large-scale ensembles of Wikipedia page views, we find that the variance of logarithmic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-21 Keisuke Okamura

We prove a central limit theorem for the momentum distribution of a particle undergoing an unbiased spatially periodic random forcing at exponentially distributed times without friction. The start is a linear Boltzmann equation for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeremy Clark , Christian Maes

Queueing theory has been recently proposed as a framework to model the heavy tailed statistics of human activity patterns. The main predictions are the existence of a power-law distribution for the interevent time of human actions and two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-02-13 J. G. Oliveira , A. Vazquez

The origin of power-law distributions in self-organized criticality is investigated by treating the variation of the number of active sites in the system as a stochastic process. An avalanche is then regarded as a first-return random walk…

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The temporal statistics exhibited by written correspondence appear to be media dependent, with features which have so far proven difficult to characterize. We explain the origin of these difficulties by disentangling the role of spontaneous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Formentin , A. Lovison , A. Maritan , G. Zanzotto

Turbulence is a complex spatial and temporal structure created by the strong non-linear dynamics of fluid flows at high Reynolds numbers. Despite being an ubiquitous phenomenon that has been studied for centuries, a full understanding of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-03 Noam Levi , Yaron Oz

Arrival times of requests to print in a student laboratory were analyzed. Inter-arrival times between subsequent requests follow a universal scaling law relating time intervals and the size of the request, indicating a scale invariant…

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We propose a power-law $m$-uniform random hypergraph on $n$ vertexes. In this hypergraph, each vertex is independently assigned a random weight from a power-law distribution with exponent $\alpha\in(0,\infty)$ and the hyperedge…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2021-08-23 Mingao Yuan