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In this paper, we investigate random walks in a family of small-world trees having an exponential degree distribution. First, we address a trapping problem, that is, a particular case of random walks with an immobile trap located at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-25 Zhongzhi Zhang , Xintong Li , Yuan Lin , Guanrong Chen

In this work the dynamics of a freely jointed random chain with small masses attached to the joints is studied from a microscopic point of view. The chain is treated using a stringy approach, in which a statistical sum is performed over all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Franco Ferrari , Jaroslaw Paturej , Thomas A. Vilgis

Randomly breaking connections in a graph alters its transport properties, a model used to describe percolation. In the case of quantum walks, dynamic percolation graphs represent a special type of imperfections, where the connections appear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Bálint Kollár , Jaroslav Novotný , Tamás Kiss , Igor Jex

We study how an evanescence process affects the number of distinct sites visited by a continuous time random walker in one dimension. We distinguish two very different cases, namely, when evanescence can only occur concurrently with a jump,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Abad , S. B. Yuste , Katja Lindenberg

We study the behaviour of the rescaled minimal subtree containing the origin and K random vertices selected from a random critical (sufficiently spread-out, and in dimensions d > 8) lattice tree conditioned to survive until time ns, in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-30 Manuel Cabezas , Alexander Fribergh , Mark Holmes , Edwin Perkins

The paper deals with fluctuations of Kendall random walks, which are extremal Markov chains and iterated integral transforms with the Williamson kernel $\Psi(t) = \left(1-|t|^{\alpha}\right)_+$, $\alpha>0$. We obtain the joint distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Barbara Jasiulis-Gołdyn , Edward Omey , Mateusz Staniak

We develop a theoretical description of the topological disentanglement occurring when torus knots reach the ends of a semi-flexible polymer under tension. These include decays into simpler knots and total unknotting. The minimal number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Michele Caraglio , Boris Marcone , Fulvio Baldovin , Enzo Orlandini , Attilio L. Stella

Advanced Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the effect of nano-slit confinement on metric and topological properties of model DNA chains. We consider both linear and circularised chains with contour lengths in the 1.2--4.8 $\mu$m…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 C. Micheletti , E. Orlandini

We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of a class of self-interacting nearest neighbour random walks on the one-dimensional integer lattice which are pushed by a particular linear combination of their own local time on edges in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Anna Erschler , Balint Toth , Wendelin Werner

An intrinsic branching structure within the transient random walk on a strip in a random environment is revealed. As applications, which enables us to express the hitting time explicitly, and specifies the density of the absolutely…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Wenming Hong , Meijuan Zhang

Motivated by a model presented by S. Gudder, we study a quantum generalization of Markov chains and discuss the relation between these maps and open quantum random walks, a class of quantum channels described by S. Attal et al. We consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Carlos F. Lardizabal , Rafael R. Souza

We consider a Random Walk in Random Environment (RWRE) moving in an i.i.d.\ random field of obstacles. When the particle hits an obstacle, it disappears with a positive probability. We obtain quenched and annealed bounds on the tails of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Nina Gantert , Serguei Popov , Marina Vachkovskaia

We study the entanglement dynamics of discrete time quantum walks acting on bounded finite sized graphs. We demonstrate that, depending on system parameters, the dynamics may be monotonic, oscillatory but highly regular, or quasi-periodic.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Peter P. Rohde , Alessandro Fedrizzi , Timothy C. Ralph

The ability to tune quantum tunneling is key for achieving selectivity in manipulation of individual particles in quantum technology applications. In this work we count electron escape events out of a time-dependent confinement potential,…

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A simple random walk on a graph is a sequence of movements from one vertex to another where at each step an edge is chosen uniformly at random from the set of edges incident on the current vertex, and then transitioned to next vertex.…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Mohammed Abdullah

In [4], we examined the use of coupling to obtain bounds on the mixing time of statistics on Markov chains. In the present paper, we consider the same general problem, but using strong stationary times rather than coupling. We discuss…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Graham White

Several stochastic processes modeling molecular motors on a linear track are given by random walks (not necessarily Markovian) on quasi 1d lattices and share a common regenerative structure. Analyzing this abstract common structure, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-08 Alessandra Faggionato , Vittoria Silvestri

We perform a finite-time scaling analysis over the detrapping point of a three-state quantum walk on the line. The coin operator is parameterized by $\rho$ that controls the wavepacket spreading velocity. The input state prepared at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 P. R. N. Falcão , A. R. C. Buarque , W. S. Dias , G. M. A. Almeida , M. L. Lyra

We study the long-time behavior of the probability density associated with the decoupled continuous-time random walk which is characterized by a superheavy-tailed distribution of waiting times. It is shown that if the random walk is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-02 S. I. Denisov , H. Kantz