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We examine the non-ergodic properties of scaled Brownian motion, a non-stationary stochastic process with a time dependent diffusivity of the form $D(t)\simeq t^{\alpha-1}$. We compute the ergodicity breaking parameter EB in the entire…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Hadiseh Safdari , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Felix Thiel , Igor M. Sokolov , Ralf Metzler

We study analytically, in one dimension, the survival probability $P_{s}(t)$ up to time $t$ of an immobile target surrounded by mutually noninteracting traps each performing a continuous-time random walk (CTRW) in continuous space. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-13 Jasper Franke , Satya N. Majumdar

While the fat tailed jump size and the waiting time distributions characterizing individual human trajectories strongly suggest the relevance of the continuous time random walk (CTRW) models of human mobility, no one seriously believes that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Chaoming Song , Tal Koren , Pu Wang , Albert-László Barabási

Based on the theory of continuous time random walks (CTRW), we build the models of characterizing the transitions among anomalous diffusions with different diffusion exponents, often observed in natural world. In the CTRW framework, we take…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-13 Trifce Sandev , Weihua Deng , Pengbo Xu

Continuous time random walks have been developed as a straightforward generalisation of classical random walk processes. Some 10 years ago, Fogedby introduced a continuous representation of these processes by means of a set of Langevin…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Kleinhans , R. Friedrich

The basic conceptual picture and theoretical basis for development of transport equations in porous media are examined. The general form of the governing equations is derived for conservative chemical transport in heterogeneous geological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Brian Berkowitz , Joseph Klafter , Ralf Metzler , Harvey Scher

Continuous-time random walks (CTRWs) with drift and position-dependent jumps provide a general framework for describing a wide range of natural and engineered systems. We analyze the stochastic differential equation associated with this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Marco Bianucci , Mauro Bologna , Riccardo Mannella

The appearance of topological effects in systems exhibiting a non-trivial topological band structure strongly relies on the coherent wave nature of the equations of motion. Here, we reveal topological dynamics in a classical stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 G. Engelhardt , M. Benito , G. Platero , G. Schaller , T. Brandes

The continuous time random walks (CTRWs) are typically defned in the way that their trajectories are discontinuous step fuctions. This may be a unwellcome feature from the point of view of application of theese processes to model certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Piotr Zebrowski , Marcin Magdziarz

Random walks are basic diffusion processes on networks and have applications in, for example, searching, navigation, ranking, and community detection. Recent recognition of the importance of temporal aspects on networks spurred studies of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-14 Leo Speidel , Renaud Lambiotte , Kazuyuki Aihara , Naoki Masuda

Time-averaged autocorrelation functions of a dichotomous random process switching between 1 and 0 and governed by wide power law sojourn time distribution are studied. Such a process, called a L\'evy walk, describes dynamical behaviors of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gennady Margolin , Eli Barkai

We introduce a new class of asymmetric random walks on the one-dimensional infinite lattice. In this walk the direction of the jumps (positive or negative) is determined by a discrete-time renewal process which is independent of the jumps.…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Thomas M. Michelitsch , Federico Polito , Alejandro P. Riascos

The Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) formalism is used to model the non-Poisson relaxation of a system response to perturbation. Two mechanisms to perturb the system are analyzed: a first in which the perturbation, seen as a potential…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerardo Aquino , Paolo Grgolini , Bruce J. West

Charge transport processes in disordered complex media are accompanied by anomalously slow relaxation for which usually a broad distribution of relaxation times is adopted. To account for those properties of the environment, a standard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Kinga Bochenek , Agnieszka Jurlewicz , Karina Weron

We present a modelling approach for diffusion in a complex medium characterized by a random length scale. The resulting stochastic process shows subdiffusion with a behavior in qualitative agreement with single particle tracking experiments…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-14 Daniel Molina-García , Tuan Minh Pham , Paolo Paradisi , Carlo Manzo , Gianni Pagnini

The Semi-Markov property of Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRWs) and their limit processes is utilized, and the probability distributions of the bivariate Markov process $(X(t),V(t))$ are calculated: $X(t)$ is a CTRW limit and $V(t)$ a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-20 G. Gill , P. Straka

In this work we propose a model to describe the statistical fluctuations of the self-driven objects (species A) walking against an opposite crowd (species B) in order to simulate the regime characterized by stop-and-go waves in the context…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 Roberto da Silva , Agenor Hentz , Alexandre Alves

Characterizing hydrodynamic transport in fractured rocks is essential for carbon storage and geothermal energy production. Multiscale heterogeneities lead to anomalous solute transport, with breakthrough-curve (BTC) tailing and nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-28 Alessandro Lenci , Yves Méheust , Marco Dentz , Vittorio Di Federico

The concept of weak ergodicity breaking is defined and studied in the context of deterministic dynamics. We show that weak ergodicity breaking describes a weakly chaotic dynamical system: a nonlinear map which generates subdiffusion…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Golan Bel , Eli Barkai

In the framework of statistical mechanics the properties of macroscopic systems are deduced starting from the laws of their microscopic dynamics. One of the key assumptions in this procedure is the ergodic property, namely the equivalence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-09 Marco Baldovin , Raffaele Marino , Angelo Vulpiani