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Through the analysis of unbiased random walks on fractal trees and continuous time random walks, we show that even if a process is characterized by a mean square displacement (MSD) growing linearly with time (standard behaviour) its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-16 Giuseppe Forte , Fabio Cecconi , Angelo Vulpiani

We consider a broad class of Continuous Time Random Walks with large fluctuations effects in space and time distributions: a random walk with trapping, describing subdiffusion in disordered and glassy materials, and a L\'evy walk process,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 R. Burioni , G. Gradenigo , A. Sarracino , A. Vezzani , A. Vulpiani

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

The concept of random walk, in which particles or waves undergo multiple collisions with the microscopic constituents of a surrounding medium, is central to understanding diffusive transport across many research areas. However, this…

The standard Levy walk is performed by a particle that moves ballistically between randomly occurring collisions, when the intercollision time is a random variable governed by a power-law distribution. During instantaneous collision events…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-03 S. Denisov , V. Zaburdaev , P. Hanggi

We show that the generalized diffusion coefficient of a subdiffusive intermittent map is a fractal function of control parameters. A modified continuous time random walk theory yields its coarse functional form and correctly describes a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 N. Korabel , A. V. Chechkin , R. Klages , I. M. Sokolov , V. Yu. Gonchar

Levy flights are random walks in which the probability distribution of the step sizes is fat-tailed. Levy spatial diffusion has been observed for a collection of ultra-cold Rb atoms and single Mg+ ions in an optical lattice. Using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-28 E. Barkai , E. Aghion , D. A. Kessler

We present a Monte Carlo study of the fractal geometry of clusters formed by discrete-time simple random walks (sRW) of $L^2$ steps on a periodic square $L\times L$ lattice. We verify with high precision that the asymptotic behavior of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-24 Jiang Zhou , Ziru Deng , Pengcheng Hou

Transport in complex systems is characterized by a fractal dimension -- the walk dimension -- that indicates the diffusive or anomalous nature of the underlying random walk process. Here we report on the experimental retrieval of this key…

Starting from the model of continuous time random walk, we focus our interest on random walks in which the probability distributions of the waiting times and jumps have fat tails characterized by power laws with exponent between 0 and 1 for…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Rudolf Gorenflo , Entsar A. A. Abdel-Rehim

This work analyzes fractional continuous-time random walks on two-layer multiplexes. A node-centric dynamics is used, in which it is assumed a Poisson distribution of a walker to become active, while a jump to one of its neighbors depends…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-29 Alfonso Allen-Perkins , Roberto F. S. Andrade

We investigate active lattice walks: biased continuous time random walks which perform orientational diffusion between lattice directions in one and two spatial dimensions. We study the occupation probability of an arbitrary site on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Stephy Jose , Dipanjan Mandal , Mustansir Barma , Kabir Ramola

Recently observation of random walks in complex environments like the cell and other glassy systems revealed that the spreading of particles, at its tails, follows a spatial exponential decay instead of the canonical Gaussian. We use the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-23 Wanli Wang , Eli Barkai , Stanislav Burov

Spatial spread of minority carriers produced by optical excitation in semiconductors is usually well described by a diffusion equation. The classical diffusion process can be viewed as a result of a random walk of particles in which every…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-14 Arsen Subashiev , Serge Luryi

We consider a random walk on one-dimensional inhomogeneous graphs built from Cantor fractals. Our study is motivated by recent experiments that demonstrated superdiffusion of light in complex disordered materials, thereby termed L\'evy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-19 A. Vezzani , R. Burioni , L. Caniparoli , S. Lepri

Anomalous random walks having long-range jumps are a critical branch of dynamical processes on networks, which can model a number of search and transport processes. However, traditional measurements based on mean first passage time are not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-11 Tongfeng Weng , Jie Zhang , Moein Khajehnejad , Michael Small , Rui Zheng , Pan Hui

Random walks are studied on disordered cellular networks in 2-and 3-dimensional spaces with arbitrary curvature. The coefficients of the evolution equation are calculated in term of the structural properties of the cellular system. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-28 Tomaso Aste

We extend results of Y. Benoist and J.-F. Quint concerning random walks on homogeneous spaces of simple Lie groups to the case where the measure defining the random walk generates a semigroup which is not necessarily Zariski dense, but…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-21 David Simmons , Barak Weiss

Two-dimensional random Lorentz gases with absorbing traps are considered in which a moving point particle undergoes elastic collisions on hard disks and annihilates when reaching a trap. In systems of finite spatial extension, the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 I. Claus , P. Gaspard , H. van Beijeren

We consider the random walk of a particle in a two-dimensional self-affine random potential of Hurst exponent $H=1/2$ in the presence of an external force $F$. We present numerical results on the statistics of first-passage times that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-08-31 Cecile Monthus , Thomas Garel