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Anomalous transport processes in which the variance of the distance travelled does not necessarily increase linearly with time are modelled using the formalism of continuous time random walks. We compute particle propagators which have the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 B. R. Ragot , J. G. Kirk

The random walk with hyperbolic probabilities that we are introducing is an example of stochastic diffusion in a one-dimensional heterogeneous media. Although driven by site-dependent one-step transition probabilities, the process retains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-03 Miquel Montero

We propose a variety of models of random walk, discrete in space and time, suitable for simulating stable random variables of arbitrary index $\alpha$ ($0< \alpha \le 2$), in the symmetric case. We show that by properly scaled transition to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rudolf Gorenflo , Gianni De Fabritiis , Francesco Mainardi

Subdiffusive behavior of one-dimensional stochastic systems can be described by time-subordinated Langevin equations. The corresponding probability density satisfies the time-fractional Fokker-Planck equations. In the homogeneous systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-01 Rytis Kazakevicius , Julius Ruseckas

Phase transitions and effects of external noise on many body systems are one of the main topics in physics. In mean field coupled nonlinear dynamical stochastic systems driven by Brownian noise, various types of phase transitions including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Akihisa Ichiki , Masatoshi Shiino

Collective modes in two-dimensional electron fluids show an interesting response to a background carrier flow. Surface plasmons propagating on top of a flowing Fermi liquid acquire a non-reciprocal character manifest in a $\pm k$ asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Haoyang Gao , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

We present the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) for an inhomogeneous medium with a position-dependent mass particle by making use of the Langevin equation, in the context of a generalized deformed derivative for an arbitrary deformation space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-17 Bruno G. da Costa , Ignacio S. Gomez , Ernesto P. Borges

The concept of random walk, in which particles or waves undergo multiple collisions with the microscopic constituents of a surrounding medium, is central to understanding diffusive transport across many research areas. However, this…

The paper is devoted to the relationship between the continuous Markovian description of Levy flights developed previously and their equivalent representation in terms of discrete steps of a wandering particle, a certain generalization of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ihor Lubashevsky

The problems of high linear conductivity in an electric field, as well as nonlinear conductivity, are considered for plasma-like systems. First, we recall several observations of nonlinear fast charge transport in dusty plasma, molecular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. A. Trigger , W. Ebeling , G. J. F. van Heijst , D. Litinski

Expanding medium is very common in many different fields, such as biology and cosmology. It brings a nonnegligible influence on particle's diffusion, which is quite different from the effect of an external force field. The dynamic mechanism…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-22 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen

We investigate the Cauchy problem and the diffusion asymptotics for a spatially inhomogeneous kinetic model associated to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck operator. We derive the global well-posedness result with instantaneous smoothness effect,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Francesca Anceschi , Yuzhe Zhu

We theoretically study the transport properties of self-propelled particles on complex structures, such as motor proteins on filament networks. A general master equation formalism is developed to investigate the persistent motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi , Igor M. Sokolov , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

Diffusion of particles in velocity space undergoing turbulent field was extensively studied in the problem of warm beam relaxation. Under low field intensities the diffusion is described by the Fokker-Planck equation with the diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Zagorodny , Volodymyr Zasenko , Jan Weiland

We introduce a formalism of fractional diffusion on networks based on a fractional Laplacian matrix that can be constructed directly from the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix. This fractional approach allows random walks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

We use the Fokker-Planck equation and its moment equations to study the collective behavior of interacting particles in unsteady one-dimensional flows. Particles interact according to a long-range attractive and a short-range repulsive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-05 Maryam Abedi , Mir Abbas Jalali

We consider single particle and polymer translocation where the frictional properties experienced from the environment are changing in time. This work is motivated by the interesting frequency responsive behaviour observed when a polymer is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-06 Jack A. Cohen , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Ramin Golestanian

We consider work fluctuation relations (FRs) for generic types of dynamics generating anomalous diffusion: Levy flights, long-correlated Gaussian processes and time-fractional kinetics. By combining Langevin and kinetic approaches we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-24 A. V. Chechkin , R. Klages

We study a scenario under which variable step random walks give anomalous statistics. We begin by analyzing the Martingale Central Limit Theorem to find a sufficient condition for the limit distribution to be non-Gaussian. We note that the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Gemunu H. Gunaratne , Joseph L. McCauley , Matthew Nicol , Andrei Torok

L\'evy flights and L\'evy walks serve as two paradigms of random walks resembling common features but also bearing fundamental differences. One of the main dissimilarities are discontinuity versus continuity of their trajectories and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-09 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Eli Barkai , Alexander A. Dubkov