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We consider a random walk among a Poisson cloud of moving traps on ${\mathbb Z}^d$, where the walk is killed at a rate proportional to the number of traps occupying the same position. In dimension $d=1$, we have previously shown that under…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Siva Athreya , Alexander Drewitz , Rongfeng Sun

The propagation of an initially localized perturbation via an interacting many-particle Hamiltonian dynamics is investigated. We argue that the propagation of the perturbation can be captured by the use of a continuous-time random walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-11 V. Zaburdaev , S. Denisov , P. Hanggi

We study biased random walkers on lattices with randomly dispersed static traps in one, two and three dimensions. As the external bias is increased from zero the system undergoes a phase transition, most clearly manifested in the asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vishal Mehra , Peter Grassberger

We derive an approximate but explicit formula for the Mean First Passage Time of a random walker between a source and a target node of a directed and weighted network. The formula does not require any matrix inversion, and it takes as only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-10 Silvia Bartolucci , Fabio Caccioli , Francesco Caravelli , Pierpaolo Vivo

Let $\mathcal{T}$ be a supercritical Galton-Watson tree with a bounded offspring distribution that has mean $\mu >1$, conditioned to survive. Let $\varphi_{\mathcal{T}}$ be a random embedding of $\mathcal{T}$ into $\mathbb{Z}^d$ according…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Remco van der Hofstad , Tim Hulshof , Jan Nagel

We show analytically that particle trapping appears in a quantum process called "quantum walk", in which the particle moves macroscopically correlating to the inner states. It has been well known that a particle in the ``Hadamard walk" with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norio Inui , Norio Konno

We consider trap models on Z^d, namely continuous time Markov jump process on Z^d with embedded chain given by a generic discrete time random walk, and whose mean waiting time at x is given by tau_x, with tau = (tau_x, x in Z^d) a family of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Luiz Renato Fontes , Pierre Mathieu

A particle entering a scattering and absorbing medium executes a random walk through a sequence of scattering events. The particle ultimately achieves first-passage, leaving the medium or it is absorbed. The Kubelka-Munk model describes a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Claude Zeller , Robert Cordery

This work deals with the stationary analysis of two-dimensional partially homogeneous nearest-neighbour random walks. Such type of random walks in the quarter plane are characterized by the fact that the one-step transition probabilities…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Ioannis Dimitriou

Spontaneous collapse models use non-linear stochastic modifications of the Schroedinger equation to suppress superpositions of eigenstates of the measured observable and drive the state to an eigenstate. It was recently demonstrated that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Alexey A. Kryukov

Experimental studies of the diffusion of biomolecules in the environment of biological cells are routinely confronted with multiple sources of stochasticity, whose identification renders the detailed data analysis of single molecule…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Eli Barkai , R. Metzler

A photon entering a scattering medium executes a three-dimensional random walk determined by the Henyey-Greenstein phase function. The photon either reaches the boundary for a first passage or is absorbed. Projecting the walk onto the axial…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-23 Claude Zeller , Robert Cordery

We study the problem of a particle/message that travels as a biased random walk towards a target node in a network in the presence of traps. The bias is represented as the probability $p$ of the particle to travel along the shortest path to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 Loukas Skarpalezos , Aristotelis Kittas , Panos Argyrakis , Reuven Cohen , Shlomo Havlin

We introduce a non-equilibrium discrete-time random walk model on multiplex networks, in which at each time step the walker first undergoes a random jump between neighboring nodes in the same layer, and then tries to hop from one node to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-18 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

We consider a discrete time biased random walk conditioned to avoid Bernoulli obstacles on ${\mathbb Z}^d$ ($d\geq 2$) up to time $N$. This model is known to undergo a phase transition: for a large bias, the walk is ballistic whereas for a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Jian Ding , Ryoki Fukushima , Rongfeng Sun , Changji Xu

We consider in this paper subdiffusion in a system with a thin membrane. The subdiffusion parameters are the same in both parts of the system separated by the membrane. Using the random walk model with discrete time and space variables the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz

We solve an adaptive search model where a random walker or L\'evy flight stochastically resets to previously visited sites on a $d$-dimensional lattice containing one trapping site. Due to reinforcement, a phase transition occurs when the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Andrea Falcón-Cortés , Denis Boyer , Luca Giuggioli , Satya N. Majumdar

We consider a branching-selection particle system on the real line. In this model the total size of the population at time $n$ is limited by $\exp\left(a n^{1/3}\right)$. At each step $n$, every individual dies while reproducing…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Bastien Mallein

We study a one-dimensional lattice random walk with an absorbing boundary at the origin and a movable partial reflector. On encountering the reflector, at site x, the walker is reflected (with probability r) to x-1 and the reflector is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald Dickman , Daniel ben-Avraham

In this paper we consider the one-dimensional, biased, randomly trapped random walk when the trapping times have infinite variance. We prove sufficient conditions for the suitably scaled walk to converge to a transformation of a stable…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Adam Bowditch