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We present analytical results for the biased diffusion of particles moving under a constant force in a randomly layered medium. The influence of this medium on the particle dynamics is modeled by a piecewise constant random force. The…

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A mixture of variance-gamma distributions is introduced and developed for model-based clustering and classification. The latest in a growing line of non-Gaussian mixture approaches to clustering and classification, the proposed mixture of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-30 Sharon M. McNicholas , Paul D. McNicholas , Ryan P. Browne

We consider a particular class of n-dimensional homogeneous diffusions all of which have an identity diffusion matrix and a drift function that is piecewise constant and scale invariant. Abstract stochastic calculus immediately gives us…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-02 Sourav Chatterjee , Soumik Pal

We consider finite point subsets (distributions) in compact metric spaces. In the case of general rectifiable metric spaces, non-trivial bounds for sums of distances between points of distributions and for discrepancies of distributions in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-17 M. M. Skriganov

Non-Gaussian diffusion is commonly considered as a result of fluctuating diffusivity, which is correlated in time or in space or both. In this work, we investigate the non-Gaussian diffusion in static disordered media via a quenched trap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Liang Luo , Ming Yi

A model for diffusion on a cubic lattice with a random distribution of traps is developed. The traps are redistributed at certain time intervals. Such models are useful for describing systems showing dynamic disorder, such as ion-conducting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Mandal , R. Dasgupta

In an unsaturated granular material, the spatial distribution of the liquid phase results from the competition between gravity and capillary forces. We show that, in the funicular regime, it can be described by a Boltzmann law, with static…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-28 Loredana Lazar , Cécile Clavaud , Axelle Amon

We study a two-dimensional granular system where external driving force is applied to each particle in the system in such a way that the system is driven into a steady state by balancing the energy input and the dissipation due to inelastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gongwen Peng , Takao Ohta

We discuss the diffusion phenomenon in the parabolic and hyperbolic regimes. New effects related to the finite velocity of the diffusion process are predicted, that can partially explain the strange behavior associated to adsorption…

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The shear viscosity in the dilute regime of a model for confined granular matter is studied by simulations and kinetic theory. The model consists on projecting into two dimensions the motion of vibrofluidized granular matter in shallow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rodrigo Soto , Dino Risso , Ricardo Brito

Although the specification of bivariate probability models using a collection of assumed conditional distributions is not a novel concept, it has received considerable attention in the last decade. In this study, a bivariate…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-20 Indranil Ghosh , Mina Norouzirad , Filipe J. Marques

In the present letter a method to find a proper expression for the force distribution inside a granular sample in static equilibrium is proposed. The method is based in statistical mechanics and the force distribution is obtained by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. A. Galindo-Torres

The diffusing-diffusivity mechanism proposed by Chubynsky and Slater [PRL 113, 098302, 2014] predicts that, in environments where the diffusivity changes gradually, the displacement distribution becomes non-Gaussian, even though the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Mpumelelo Matse , John Bechhoefer

We present several numerical results on granular mixtures. In particular, we examine the efficiency of diffusion as a mixing mechanism in these systems. The collisions are inelastic and to compensate the energy loss, we thermalize the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Henrique , G. Batrouni , D. Bideau

In this article, we focus on the sampling of the configurational Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution, that is, the calculation of averages of functions of the position coordinates of a molecular $N$-body system modelled at constant temperature. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Benedict Leimkuhler , Charles Matthews

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

We suggest a simple model for the dynamics of granular particles in suspension which is suitable for an event driven algorithm, allowing to simulate $N=\mathcal{O}(10^6)$ particles or more. As a first application we consider a dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-17 Andrea Fiege , Annette Zippelius

We continue the study of random continued fraction expansions, generated by random application of the Gauss and the R\'enyi backward continued fraction maps. We show that this random dynamical system admits a unique absolutely continuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Charlene Kalle , Valentin Matache , Masato Tsujii , Evgeny Verbitskiy

While analyzing mobile systems we often approximate the actual coverage surface and assume an ideal cell shape. In a multi-cellular network, because of its tessellating nature, a hexagon is more preferred than a circular geometry. Despite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Mouhamed Abdulla , Yousef R. Shayan

A theory for jammed granular materials is developed with the aid of a nonequilibrium steady-state distribution function. The approximate nonequilibrium steady-state distribution function is explicitly given in the weak dissipation regime by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-26 Koshiro Suzuki , Hisao Hayakawa