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A vast variety of real-life networks display the ubiquitous presence of scale-free phenomenon and small-world effect, both of which play a significant role in the dynamical processes running on networks. Although various dynamical processes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-19 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Wenlei Xie , Lichao Chen , Yuan Lin , Jihong Guan

We investigate the splitting probability of a monitored continuous-time quantum walk with two targets and show that, in stark contrast to a classical random walk, it exhibits a nonanalytic, phase-transition-like behavior controlled by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Prashant Singh , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

Consider a Markov process \omega_t at equilibrium and some event C (a subset of the state-space of the process). A natural measure of correlations in the process is the pairwise correlation \Pr[\omega_0,\omega_t \in C] - \Pr[\omega_0 \in…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-24 Alan Hammond , Elchanan Mossel , Gábor Pete

We study a continuous time branching process where an individual splits into two daughters with rate b and dies with rate a, starting from a single individual at t=0. We show that the model can be mapped exactly to a random walk problem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-13 Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso

The evolution of many stochastic systems is accurately described by random walks on graphs. We here explore the close connection between local steady-state fluctuations of random walks and the global structure of the underlying graph.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-25 M. Bruderer

Random walks serve as important tools for studying complex network structures, yet their dynamics in cases where transition probabilities are not static remain under explored and poorly understood. Here we study nonlinear random walks that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-14 Digesh Chitrakar , Per Sebastian Skardal

We study a continuous time random walk on the $d$-dimensional lattice, subject to a drift and an attraction to large clusters of a subcritical Bernoulli site percolation. We find two distinct regimes: a ballistic one, and a subballistic one…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-12 Francis Comets , Francois Simenhaus

We explore static noise in a discrete quantum random walk over a homogeneous cyclic graph, focusing on spectral and dynamical properties. Using a three-parameter unitary coin, we control the spectral structure of the noiseless step operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 G. Juarez Rangel , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

Knotted proteins, when forced through the pores, can get stuck if the knots in their backbone tighten under force. Alternatively, the knot can slide off the chain, making translocation possible. We construct a simple energy landscape model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-08 Karol Capała , Piotr Szymczak

Random walks find applications in many areas of science and are the heart of essential network analytic tools. When defined on temporal networks, even basic random walk models may exhibit a rich spectrum of behaviours, due to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-11 Julien Petit , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

We study analytically the asymptotic behaviour of the average probability P(n,t) for the trajectory of a 2D Brownian particle wandering in the presence of randomly distributed traps to wind n times around a given point after a time t. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Samokhin

Recent studies classify the topology of proteins by analysing the distribution of their projections using knotoids. The approximation of this distribution depends on the number of projection directions that are sampled. Here we investigate…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Agnese Barbensi , Dimos Goundaroulis

We study a class of Unitary Quantum Walks on arbitrary graphs, parameterized by a family of scattering matrices. These Scattering Quantum Walks model the discrete dynamics of a system on the edges of the graph, with a scattering process at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alain Joye

We address continuous-time quantum walks on graphs in the presence of time- and space-dependent noise. Noise is modeled as generalized dynamical percolation, i.e. classical time-dependent fluctuations affecting the tunneling amplitudes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Claudia Benedetti , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

We find a power law for the number of knot-monomers with an exponent $0.39 \pm0.13$ in agreement with previous simulations. For the average size of a knot we also obtain a power law $N_m=2.56\cdot N^{0.20\pm0.04}$. We further present data…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Brill , Philipp M. Diesinger , Dieter W. Heermann

We study caging/trapping in Sokoban-type models, featuring a random walker moving through a disordered medium of obstacles and capable of pushing some obstacles blocking its path. In one-dimension, we allow the walker to push up to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-24 Prashant Singh , Eli Barkai , David A Kessler

The response of a cold atom gas with contact interactions to a smoothly varying external harmonic confinement in the non-adiabatic regime is studied. The time variation of the angular frequency is varied such that the system is, for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-27 Seyed Ebrahim Gharashi , D. Blume

Properties of one dimensional discrete-time quantum walks are sensitive to the presence of inhomogeneities in the substrate, which can be generated by defining position dependent coin operators. Deterministic aperiodic sequences of two or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 R. F. S. Andrade , A. M. C. Souza

The size of a zero thickness (no excluded volume) polymer ring is shown to scale with chain length $N$ in the same way as the size of the excluded volume (self-avoiding) linear polymer, as $N^{\nu}$, where $\nu \approx 0.588$. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Yu. Grosberg

Due to wide applications in diverse fields, random walks subject to stochastic resetting have attracted considerable attention in the last decade. In this paper, we study discrete-time random walks on complex network with multiple resetting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-01 Shuang Wang , Hanshuang Chen , Feng Huang