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We suggest a better mathematical method, fractional calculus, for studying the behavior of the atom-field interaction in photonic crystals. By studying the spontaneous emission of an atom in a photonic crystal with one-band isotropic model,…

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The growth of the average kinetic energy of classical particles is studied for potentials that are random both in space and time. Such potentials are relevant for recent experiments in optics and in atom optics. It is found that for small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-30 Yevgeny Krivolapov , Shmuel Fishman

Based on the non-Markov diffusion equation taking into account the spatial fractality and modeling for the generalized coefficient of particle diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-19 P. Kostrobij , M. Tokarchuk , B. Markovych , I. Ryzha

In this paper we study the solutions of different forms of fractional equations on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}_{1}^{2}$ $\subset \mathbb{R}^{3}$ possessing the structure of time-dependent random fields. We study the correlation functions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Mirko D'Ovidio , Nikolai Leonenko , Enzo Orsingher

We study agitated frictional disks in two dimensions with the aim of developing a scaling theory for their diffusion over time. As a function of the area fraction $\phi$ and mean-square velocity fluctuations $\langle v^2\rangle$ the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-09 H. G. E. Hentschel , Itamar Procaccia , Saikat Roy

The two--dimensional diffusive dynamics of test particles in a random electromagnetic field is studied. The synthetic electromagnetic fluctuations are generated through randomly placed magnetised ``clouds'' oscillating with a frequency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-01 Silvia Perri , Fabio Lepreti , Vincenzo Carbone , Angelo Vulpiani

We present a stochastic model for amplifying, diffusive media like, for instance, random lasers. Starting from a simple random-walk model, we derive a stochastic partial differential equation for the energy field with contains a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-11 Stefano Lepri

Over the last two decades, anomalous diffusion processes in which the mean squares variance grows slower or faster than that in a Gaussian process have found many applications. At a macroscopic level, these processes are adequately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Bangti Jin , William Rundell

We introduce a homogenization approach to characterize the dynamical response of a generic dispersive spacetime crystal in the long-wavelength limit. The theory is applied to dispersive spacetime platforms with a travelling-wave modulation.…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-26 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

We investigate the generation of fractional-period states in continuum periodic systems. As an example, we consider a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in an optical-lattice potential. We show that when the potential is turned on…

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We investigate the fractional Schr\"odinger equation with a periodic $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential. In the inverse space, the problem transfers into a first-order nonlocal frequency-delay partial differential equation. We show that at…

Fractional Brownian motion (FBM), a non-Markovian self-similar Gaussian stochastic process with long-ranged correlations, represents a widely applied, paradigmatic mathematical model of anomalous diffusion. We report the results of…

Equation of long-range particle drift and diffusion on three-dimensional physical lattice is suggested. This equation can be considered as a lattice analogof space-fractional Fokker-Planck equation for continuum. The lattice approach gives…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 Vasily E. Tarasov

We study a fractional cross-diffusion system that describes the evolution of multi-species populations in the regime of large-distance interactions in a bounded domain. We prove existence and weak-strong uniqueness results for the…

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This paper deals with the solution of unified fractional reaction-diffusion systems. The results are obtained in compact and elegant forms in terms of Mittag-Leffler functions and generalized Mittag-Leffler functions, which are suitable for…

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There has been considerable recent study in "sub-diffusion" models that replace the standard parabolic equation model by a one with a fractional derivative in the time variable. There are many ways to look at this newer approach and one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 William Rundell , Zhidong Zhang

In this work, we explore a time-fractional diffusion equation of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with a stochastic diffusivity parameter. We focus on efficient estimation of the expected values (considered as an infinite dimensional integral on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Josef Dick , Hecong Gao , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

We derive the probability density of a diffusion process generated by nonergodic velocity fluctuations in presence of a weak potential, using the Liouville equation approach. The velocity of the diffusing particle undergoes dichotomic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-18 Mauro Bologna , Gerardo Aquino

The diffusion of finite-size hard-core interacting particles in two- or three-dimensional confined domains is considered in the limit that the confinement dimensions become comparable to the particle's dimensions. The result is a nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman

We study invariant solutions of a certain class of time-fractional diffusion-wave equations with variable coefficients via Lie symmetry analysis. In physics, the fractional diffusion equation describes transport dynamics that are governed…