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Natural selection for terrestrial locomotion has yielded unifying patterns in the body shape of legged animals, often manifesting as scaling laws. One such pattern appears in the frontal aspect ratio. Smaller animals like insects typically…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Neelima Sharma , Madhusudhan Venkadesan

Multi-scaling properties of one-dimensional truncated Levy flights are studied. Due to the broken self-similarity of the distribution of jumps, they are expected to possess multi-scaling properties in contrast to the ordinary Levy flights.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroya Nakao

We have studied a random walk model based on majority rule. At a given instant, the moving direction of a cargo is determined by motor coordination mediated by a tug-of-war mechanism between two kinds of competing motor proteins. We have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Hyungseok Chad Moon , Kyungsun Moon

We investigate a L\'evy-Walk alternating between velocities $\pm v_0$ with opposite sign. The sojourn time probability distribution at large times is a power law lacking its mean or second moment. The first case corresponds to a ballistic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 D. Froemberg , E. Barkai

The Levy walk in which the frequency of occurrence of step lengths follows a power-law distribution, can be observed in the migratory behavior of organisms at various levels. Levy walks with power exponents close to 2 are observed, and the…

Behavioral contagion and the presence of behavioral cascades are natural features in groups of animals showing collective motion, such as schooling fish or grazing herbivores. Here we study empirical behavioral cascades observed in fish…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-10-14 Julia Mugica , Jordi Torrents , Javier Cristin , Andreu Puy , M. Carmen Miguel , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

Human motor activity is constrained by the rhythmicity of the 24 hours circadian cycle, including the usual 12-15 hours sleep-wake cycle. However, activity fluctuations also appear over a wide range of temporal scales, from days to a few…

In this paper, an experimental velocity database of a bacterial collective motion , e.g., \textit{B. subtilis}, in turbulent phase with volume filling fraction $84\%$ provided by Professor Goldstein at the Cambridge University UK, was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-28 Xiang Qiu , Long Ding , Yongxiang Huang , Ming Chen , Zhiming Lu , Yulu Liu , Quan Zhou

We consider the advection-diffusion transport of tracers in a one-parameter family of plane periodic flows where the patterns of streamlines feature regions of confined circulation in the shape of "cat's eyes", separated by meandering jets…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-27 Patrick Pöschke , Igor M. Sokolov , Michael A. Zaks , Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy

Spatially extended chaotic systems with power-law decaying interactions are considered. Two coupled replicas of such systems synchronize to a common spatio-temporal chaotic state above a certain coupling strength. The synchronization…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Claudio Juan Tessone , Massimo Cencini , Alessandro Torcini

Neuronal avalanches measured in vitro and in vivo in different cortical networks consistently exhibit power law behaviour for the size and duration distributions with exponents typical for a mean field self-organized branching process.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-12 L. Michiels van Kessenich , L. de Arcangelis , H. J. Herrmann

On a variety of tasks, the performance of neural networks predictably improves with training time, dataset size and model size across many orders of magnitude. This phenomenon is known as a neural scaling law. Of fundamental importance is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-25 Blake Bordelon , Alexander Atanasov , Cengiz Pehlevan

We study the emergence of a giant component in a spatial network where the distribution of the metric distances between the nodes is scale-invariant, and the interaction between the nodes has a long-range power-law behavior. The nodes are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-29 Guy Amit , Dana Ben Porath , Sergey V. Buldyrev , Amir Bashan

In recent years, mobility models have been reconsidered based on findings by analyzing some big datasets collected by GPS sensors, cellphone call records, and Geotagging. To understand the fundamental statistical properties of the frequency…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-05 Akihiro Fujihara , Hiroyoshi Miwa

This paper is devoted to the problem of statistical mechanics raised by the analysis of an issue of sociological interest: the teen birth phenomenon. It is expected that these data are characterized by correlated fluctuations, reflecting…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Ignaccolo , P. Allegrini , P. Grigolini , P. Hamilton , B. J. West

Scale-free power law structure describes complex networks derived from a wide range of real world processes. The extensive literature focuses almost exclusively on networks with power law exponent strictly larger than 2, which can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Harry Crane , Walter Dempsey

We study the effects of scattering lengths on L\'evy walks in quenched one-dimensional random and fractal quasi-lattices, with scatterers spaced according to a long-tailed distribution. By analyzing the scaling properties of the random-walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 R. Burioni , S. di Santo , S. Lepri , A. Vezzani

A class of Fleming-Viot processes with decaying sampling rates and $\alpha$-stable motions that correspond to distributions with growing populations are introduced and analyzed. Almost sure long-time scaling limits for these processes are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Michael A. Kouritzin , Khoa Lê

We revisit the number theoretic division model of self-organized criticality [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 158702 (2008)]. The model consists of a pool of $M-1$ ordered integers $\{2, 3, \cdots, M\}$, and the aim is to dynamically form a primitive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-10 Rahul Chhimpa , Avinash Chand Yadav

Levy walk (LW) process has been used as a simple model for describing anomalous diffusion in which the mean squared displacement of the walker grows non-linearly with time in contrast to the diffusive motion described by simple random walks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Santanu Das , Anupam Kundu