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We investigate the observables of the one-dimensional model for anomalous transport in semiconductor devices where diffusion arises from scattering at dislocations at fixed random positions, known as L\'evy-Lorentz gas. To gain insight into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-15 Muhammad Tayyab

This review summarizes recent advances in our understanding of anomalous transport in spin chains, viewed through the lens of integrability. Numerical advances, based on tensor-network methods, have shown that transport in many canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-23 Vir B. Bulchandani , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Enej Ilievski

We study transport of interacting particles in weakly disordered media. Our one-dimensional system includes (i) disorder: the hopping rate governing the movement of a particle between two neighboring lattice sites is inhomogeneous, and (ii)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-13 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We consider in this paper a solvable model for the motion of molecular motors. Based on the averaging principle, we reduce the problem to a diffusion process on a graph. We then calculate the effective speed of transportation of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Mark Freidlin , Wenqing Hu

We investigate the random continuous trees called L\'evy trees, which are obtained as scaling limits of discrete Galton-Watson trees. We give a mathematically precise definition of these random trees as random variables taking values in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Duquesne , Jean-Francois Le Gall

Spreading of bacteria in a highly advective, disordered environment is examined. Predictions of super-diffusive spreading for a simplified reaction-diffusion equation are tested. Concentration profiles display anomalous growth and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John H. Carpenter , Karin A. Dahmen

This paper investigates L\'evy walks with random velocities, extending classical models beyond constant speed assumptions. We derive scaling limits, demonstrating that diffusion depends on interplay between heavy-tailed duration and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Hubert Woszczek , Marek A. Teuerle , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

In this work, we use the JKO scheme to approximate a general class of diffusion problems generated by Darcy's law. Although the scheme is now classical, if the energy density is spatially inhomogeneous or irregular, many standard methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Matt Jacobs , Inwon Kim , Jiajun Tong

We propose a generalized Langevin formalism to describe transport in combs and similar ramified structures. Our approach consists of a Langevin equation without drift for the motion along the backbone. The motion along the secondary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Vicenç Méndez , Alexander Iomin , Werner Horsthemke , Daniel Campos

In this paper, we first explore certain structural properties of L\'evy flows and use this information to obtain the existence of strong solutions to a class of Stochastic PDEs in the space of tempered distributions, driven by L\'evy noise.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Arvind Kumar Nath , Suprio Bhar

In this work we propose an electronic L\'evy flight device, analogous to a recent optical realization. To that end, we investigate the transmission of electrons in graphene nanoribbons in the presence of circular electrostatic clusters,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Diego B. Fonseca , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Anderson L. R. Barbosa

Recent laboratory experiments on solute migration in composite porous columns have shown an asymmetry in the solute arrival time upon reversal of the flow direction, which is not explained by current paradigms of transport. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-20 Andrea Cortis , Andrea Zoia

We discuss diffusion properties of a dynamical system, which is characterised by long-tail distributions and finite correlations. The particle velocity has the stable L\'evy distribution; it is assumed as a jumping process (the kangaroo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-21 Tomasz Srokowski

The dispersion of plant pathogens, such as rust spores, is responsible for more than 20% of global yield loss annually, and poses a significant threat to human health. However, the release mechanics of pathogens from flexible plant surfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zixuan Wu , Saikat Basu , Seungho Kim , Mark Sorrells , Francisco J. Beron-Vera , Sunghwan Jung

We study transport in synthetic, bi-disperse porous structures, with arrays of microchannels interconnected by a nanoporous layer. These structures are inspired by the xylem tissue in vascular plants, in which sap water travels from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-23 Olivier Vincent , Théo Tassin , Erik J. Huber , Abraham D. Stroock

Convection-diffusion equations provide the basis for describing heat and mass transfer phenomena as well as processes of continuum mechanics. To handle flows in porous media, the fundamental issue is to model correctly the convective…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-08-29 A. Churbanov , P. Vabishchevich

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

We consider a model system in which anomalous diffusion is generated by superposition of underlying linear modes with a broad range of relaxation times. In the language of Gaussian polymers, our model corresponds to Rouse (Fourier) modes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-11 Assaf Amitai , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

Using the transfer matrix technique, we investigate the propagation of electron through a two dimensional disordered sample. We find that the spatial distribution of electrons is homogeneous only in the limit of weak disorder (diffusive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-09-28 P. Markos

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger