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We consider finite and infinite systems of particles on the real line and half-line evolving in continuous time. Hereby, the particles are driven by i.i.d. L\'{e}vy processes endowed with rank-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

A numerical study of the role of anomalous diffusion in front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems is presented. Three models of anomalous diffusion are considered: fractional diffusion, tempered fractional diffusion, and a model that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-11 D. del-Castillo-Negrete

We propose a reaction-transport model for CTRW with non-linear reactions and non-exponential waiting time distributions. We derive non-linear evolution equation for mesoscopic density of particles. We apply this equation to the problem of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergei Fedotov

We investigate the density decay in the pair-annihilation process A+A->0 in the case when the particles perform anomalous diffusion on a cubic lattice. The anomalous diffusion is realized via L\'evy flights, which are characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-16 Ingo Homrighausen , Anton A. Winkler , Erwin Frey

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

Temporal broadening of pulsar signals results from electron density fluctuations in the interstellar medium that cause the radiation to travel along paths of different lengths. The Gaussian theory of fluctuations predicts that the pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanislav Boldyrev , Carl Gwinn

We present results of the numerical simulations and the scaling characteristics of one-dimensional random fluctuations with heavy tailed probability distribution functions. Assuming that the distribution function of the random fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-16 Mohsen Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi

L\'evy walks are continuous time random walks with spatio-temporal coupling of jump lengths and waiting times, often used to model superdiffusive spreading processes such as animals searching for food, tracer motion in weakly chaotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bartłomiej Dybiec , Karol Capała , Aleksei Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

The contribution from quantum vacuum fluctuations of a real massless scalar field to the motion of a test particle that interacts with the field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting flat boundary is here investigated. There is no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-03 G. H. Camargo , V. A. De Lorenci , C. C. H. Ribeiro , F. F. Rodrigues , M. M. Silva

We study various combinations of active diffusion with branching, as an extension of standard reaction-diffusion processes. We concentrate on the selection of the asymptotic wavefront speed for thermal run-and-tumble and for thermal active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-22 Thibaut Demaerel , Christian Maes

We investigate the role of the form of the spatial diffusion coefficient in shock acceleration of fast particles. Referring to non-classical diffusion and using the results of numerical (hybrid) simulations tailored for the downstream shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-25 R. A. Treumann

The long-time behavior of a reaction-diffusion front between one static (e.g. porous solid) reactant A and one initially separated diffusing reactant B is analyzed for the mean-field reaction-rate density R(\rho_A,\rho_B) =…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Z. Bazant , Howard A. Stone

L\'{e}vy walk is a practical model and has wide applications in various fields. Here we focus on the effect of an external constant force on the L\'{e}vy walk with the exponent of the power-law distributed flight time $\alpha\in(0,2)$. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yao Chen , Xudong Wang , Weihua Deng

We study a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system which describes an isothermal autocatalytic chemical reaction involving both a quadratic (A + B -> 2B) and a cubic (A + 2B -> 3B) autocatalysis. The parameters of this system are the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Stephane Focant , Thierry Gallay

We develop non-linear integro-differential kinetic equations for proliferating L\'{e}vy walkers with birth and death processes. A hyperbolic scaling is applied directly to the general equations to get the Hamilton-Jacobi equations that will…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-06 Helena Stage , Sergei Fedotov , Vicenç Méndez

We employed the method of virial expansion in order to compute the retarded density correlation function (generalized diffusion propagator) in the critical random matrix ensemble in the limit of strong multifractality. We found that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-09-03 V. E. Kravtsov , O. M. Yevtushenko , P. Snajberk , E. Cuevas

Understanding anomalous transport and reaction kinetics due to microscopic physical and chemical disorder is a long-standing goal in many fields including geophysics, biology, and engineering. We consider reaction-diffusion characterized by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-11 Gerald J. Lapeyre , Marco Dentz

We study drag-induced diffusion of massive particles in scale-free velocity fields, where superdiffusive behavior emerges due to the scale-free size distribution of the vortices of the underlying velocity field. The results show qualitative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Reza M. Baram , Pedro G. Lind , José S. Andrade , Hans J. Herrmann

In many-particle diffusions, particles that move the furthest and fastest can play an outsized role in physical phenomena. A theoretical understanding of the behavior of such extreme particles is nascent. A classical model, in the spirit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-22 Jacob B. Hass , Aileen N. Carroll-Godfrey , Eric I. Corwin , Ivan Z. Corwin

We analyze the spread of a localized peak of energy into vacuum for nonlinear diffusive processes. In contrast with standard diffusion, the nonlinearity results in a compact wave with a sharp front separating the perturbed region from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-20 P. I. Hurtado , P. L. Krapivsky