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We analyse the mixing profile of a random walk on a dynamic random permutation, focusing on the regime where the walk evolves much faster than the permutation. Two types of dynamics generated by random transpositions are considered: one…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Luca Avena , Remco van der Hofstad , Frank den Hollander , Oliver Nagy

It is shown, by considering the case of the harmonic oscillator, that quantum fluctuations may be the most significant contribution to the random walk of a single molecule. From this point, the controversy on the existence of a standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-05 Jean Paul Mbelek

We study three different random walk models on several two-dimensional lattices by Monte Carlo simulations. One is the usual nearest neighbor random walk. Another is the nearest neighbor random walk which is not allowed to backtrack. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Tom Kennedy

We calculate the large deviation function of the end-to-end distance and the corresponding extension-versus-force relation for (isotropic) random walks, on and off-lattice, with and without persistence, and in any spatial dimension. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-21 Karel Proesmans , Raul Toral , Christian Van den Broeck

The Pairwise Einstein Model (PEM) of steps not only justifies the use of the Generalized Wigner Distribution (GWD) for Terrace Width Distributions (TWDs), it also predicts a specific form for the Step Position Distribution (SPD), i.e., the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Amber N. Benson , Howard L. Richards , T. L. Einstein

A constrained diffusive random walk of n steps and a random flight in Rd, which can be expressed in the same terms, were investigated independently in recent papers. The n steps of the walk are identically and independently distributed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-28 G. Le Caer

We present results for the fluctuations of the displacement of a tracer particle on a planar lattice pulled by a step force in the presence of impenetrable, immobile obstacles. The fluctuations perpendicular to the applied force are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-06 Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Schwab , Thomas Franosch

We consider random variables observed at arrival times of a renewal process, which possibly depends on those observations and has regularly varying steps with infinite mean. Due to the dependence and heavy tailed steps, the limiting…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Bojan Basrak , Drago Špoljarić

The recurrence properties of random walks can be characterized by P\'{o}lya number, i.e., the probability that the walker has returned to the origin at least once. In this paper, we consider recurrence properties for a general 1D random…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Xiao-Kun Zhang , Jing Wan , Jing-Ju Lu , Xin-Ping Xu

We analyze final-time dependent discrete-time quantum walks in one dimension. We compute asymptotics of the return probability of the quantum walk by a path counting approach. Moreover, we discuss a relation between the quantum walk and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Yusuke Ide , Norio Konno , Takuya Machida , Etsuo Segawa

Motivated by the dissipative abelian sandpile model, we analyze the trajectories of a one-dimensional random walk in a landscape of soft traps. These traps, placed at increasing distances from each other, correspond to dissipative sites in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Frank Redig , Ellen Saada , Berend van Tol

The random walk of test particle in low-density gas is considered basing on approximate coarsened version of the collisional representation of the BBGKY equations. The coarsening presumes that momentum relaxation rates of the test particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-14 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

We establish recurrence criteria for sums of independent random variables which take values in Euclidean lattices of varying dimension. In particular, we describe transient inhomogenous random walks in the plane which interlace two…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Itai Benjamini , Robin Pemantle , Yuval Peres

Temporal fluctuations in the Hadamard walk on circles are studied. A temporal standard deviation of probability that a quantum random walker is positive at a given site is introduced to manifest striking differences between quantum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norio Inui , Yoshinao Konishi , Norio Konno , Takahiro Soshi

We investigate random walks on a lattice with imperfect traps. In one dimension, we perturbatively compute the survival probability by reducing the problem to a particle diffusing on a closed ring containing just one single trap. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Timo Aspelmeier , Jérôme Magnin , Willi Graupner , Uwe C. Täuber

We prove the non-equilibrium fluctuations for the one-dimensional symmetric simple exclusion process with a slow bond. This generalizes a result of T. Franco, A. Neumann and P. Gon\c{c}alves (2013), which dealt with the equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Dirk Erhard , Tertuliano Franco , Patrícia Gonçalves , Adriana Neumann , Mariana Tavares

In this paper, we introduce a variation of the elephant random walk whose steps are polynomially decaying. At each time $k$, the walker's step size is $k^{-\gamma}$ with $\gamma>0$. We investigate effects of the step size exponent $\gamma$…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Yuzaburo Nakano

Topological defects dominate the deformation response of materials in processes ranging from quantum turbulence to crystal plasticity. We calculate the probability distribution function for the fluctuations in velocity $v$, using scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-02 Luiza Angheluta , Patricio Jeraldo , Karin Dahmen , Nigel Goldenfeld

Mathematical models of motility are often based on random-walk descriptions of discrete individuals that can move according to certain rules. It is usually the case that large masses concentrated in small regions of space have a great…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-23 Carles Falcó

We have studied the diffusion of a single particle on a one-dimensional lattice. It is shown that, for a self-similar distribution of hopping rates, the time dependence of the mean-square displacement follows an anomalous power law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Padilla , H. O. Mártin , J. L. Iguain