scholarly journals Large Deviations for Continuous Time Random Walks

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanli Wang ◽  
Eli Barkai ◽  
Stanislav Burov

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 widely applicable continuous time random walk model and obtain the large deviation description of the propagator. Under mild conditions that the microscopic jump lengths distribution is decaying exponentially or faster i.e., Lévy like power law distributed jump lengths are excluded, and that the distribution of the waiting times is analytical for short waiting times, the spreading of particles follows an exponential decay at large distances, with a logarithmic correction. Here we show how anti-bunching of jump events reduces the effect, while bunching and intermittency enhances it. We employ exact solutions of the continuous time random walk model to test the large deviation theory.

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Kyo-Shin Hwang ◽  
Wensheng Wang

A continuous time random walk is a random walk subordinated to a renewal process used in physics to model anomalous diffusion. In this paper, we establish Chover-type laws of the iterated logarithm for continuous time random walks with jumps and waiting times in the domains of attraction of stable laws.


2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
pp. 623-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark M. Meerschaert ◽  
Hans-Peter Scheffler

A continuous-time random walk is a simple random walk subordinated to a renewal process used in physics to model anomalous diffusion. In this paper we show that, when the time between renewals has infinite mean, the scaling limit is an operator Lévy motion subordinated to the hitting time process of a classical stable subordinator. Density functions for the limit process solve a fractional Cauchy problem, the generalization of a fractional partial differential equation for Hamiltonian chaos. We also establish a functional limit theorem for random walks with jumps in the strict generalized domain of attraction of a full operator stable law, which is of some independent interest.


2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark M. Meerschaert ◽  
Hans-Peter Scheffler

A continuous-time random walk is a simple random walk subordinated to a renewal process used in physics to model anomalous diffusion. In this paper we show that, when the time between renewals has infinite mean, the scaling limit is an operator Lévy motion subordinated to the hitting time process of a classical stable subordinator. Density functions for the limit process solve a fractional Cauchy problem, the generalization of a fractional partial differential equation for Hamiltonian chaos. We also establish a functional limit theorem for random walks with jumps in the strict generalized domain of attraction of a full operator stable law, which is of some independent interest.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1480-1501 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZhiPeng Li ◽  
HongGuang Sun ◽  
Renat T. Sibatov

Abstract Bedload particles in the armoring layer may experience a multi-scale effect and multiple mass transfer rates between mobile and immobile domains. Anomalous transport behaviors and retarded space evolution plume cannot be described by the normal diffusion equation. In this paper, we apply the continuous time random walk model with different distributions of waiting times to capture bedload transport behavior under different conditions. Experimental data indicate that fluctuations of diffusive rates for bedload transport can be captured by the truncated power law (TPL). The retarded plume evolution can be well characterized by an exponential distribution of waiting times and advection-diffusion equation with a retarded kernel. The heavy-tailed snapshots of bedload transport are interpreted in terms of mobile and immobile states.


2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Muge Karaman ◽  
Jiaxuan Zhang ◽  
Karen L. Xie ◽  
Wenzhen Zhu ◽  
Xiaohong Joe Zhou

Author(s):  
Karina Weron ◽  
Aleksander Stanislavsky ◽  
Agnieszka Jurlewicz ◽  
Mark M. Meerschaert ◽  
Hans-Peter Scheffler

We present a class of continuous-time random walks (CTRWs), in which random jumps are separated by random waiting times. The novel feature of these CTRWs is that the jumps are clustered. This introduces a coupled effect, with longer waiting times separating larger jump clusters. We show that the CTRW scaling limits are time-changed processes. Their densities solve two different fractional diffusion equations, depending on whether the waiting time is coupled to the preceding jump, or the following one. These fractional diffusion equations can be used to model all types of experimentally observed two power-law relaxation patterns. The parameters of the scaling limit process determine the power-law exponents and loss peak frequencies.


2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 782-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jara ◽  
T. Komorowski

In this paper we consider the scaled limit of a continuous-time random walk (CTRW) based on a Markov chain {Xn,n≥ 0} and two observables, τ(∙) andV(∙), corresponding to the renewal times and jump sizes. Assuming that these observables belong to the domains of attraction of some stable laws, we give sufficient conditions on the chain that guarantee the existence of the scaled limits for CTRWs. An application of the results to a process that arises in quantum transport theory is provided. The results obtained in this paper generalize earlier results contained in Becker-Kern, Meerschaert and Scheffler (2004) and Meerschaert and Scheffler (2008), and the recent results of Henry and Straka (2011) and Jurlewicz, Kern, Meerschaert and Scheffler (2010), where {Xn,n≥ 0} is a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables.


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