Search Results - "Klafter, J."
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Lévy walks
Published in Reviews of modern physics (09-06-2015)“…Levy walks are random walks in which the distribution of step length does not decay exponentially and the velocity of the moving particle is finite. Building…”
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Geometry-controlled kinetics
Published in Nature chemistry (01-06-2010)“…It has long been appreciated that the transport properties of molecules can control reaction kinetics. This effect can be characterized by the time it takes a…”
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Field-induced dispersion in subdiffusion
Published in Physical review letters (06-10-2006)“…We discuss the response of continuous-time random walks to an oscillating external field within the generalized master equation approach. We concentrate on the…”
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Probing microscopic origins of confined subdiffusion by first-passage observables
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-04-2008)“…Subdiffusive motion of tracer particles in complex crowded environments, such as biological cells, has been shown to be widespread. This deviation from…”
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Survival of an evasive prey
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-08-2009)“…We study the survival of a prey that is hunted by N predators. The predators perform independent random walks on a square lattice with V sites and start a…”
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Friction through dynamical formation and rupture of molecular bonds
Published in Physical review letters (02-04-2004)“…We introduce a model for friction in a system of two rigid plates connected by bonds (springs) and experiencing an external drive. The macroscopic frictional…”
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Beyond the Conventional Description of Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Adhesion Bonds
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-09-2003)“…Dynamic force spectroscopy of single molecules is described by a model that predicts a distribution of rupture forces, the corresponding mean rupture force,…”
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First-passage time distributions for subdiffusion in confined geometry
Published in Physical review letters (22-06-2007)“…In this Letter, we derive a relationship between the moments of the first-passage time for a random walk and the first-passage time density for subdiffusive…”
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First-passage times in complex scale-invariant media
Published in Nature (01-11-2007)“…How long does it take a random walker to reach a given target point? This quantity, known as a first-passage time (FPT), has led to a growing number of…”
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Dynamical heat channels
Published in Physical review letters (07-11-2003)“…We consider heat conduction in a 1D dynamical channel. The channel consists of an ensemble of noninteracting particles, which move between two heat baths…”
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From continuous time random walks to the fractional fokker-planck equation
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics (01-01-2000)“…We generalize the continuous time random walk (CTRW) to include the effect of space dependent jump probabilities. When the mean waiting time diverges we derive…”
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Fractional diffusion equation for a power-law-truncated Lévy process
Published in Physica A (15-05-2004)“…Truncated Lévy flights are stochastic processes which display a crossover from a heavy-tailed Lévy behavior to a faster decaying probability distribution…”
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Fractional Fokker-Planck equation for ultraslow kinetics
Published in Europhysics letters (01-08-2003)“…Several classes of physical systems exhibit ultraslow diffusion for which the mean-squared displacement at long times grows as a power of the logarithm of time…”
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Stationary states of non-linear oscillators driven by Lévy noise
Published in Chemical physics (01-11-2002)“…We study the probability density function in the stationary state of non-linear oscillators which are subject to Lévy stable noise and confined within…”
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Single-Molecule Pulling Experiments: When the Stiffness of the Pulling Device Matters
Published in Biophysical journal (15-09-2008)“…Using Langevin modeling, we investigate the role of the experimental setup on the unbinding forces measured in single-molecule pulling experiments. We…”
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Strong anomaly in diffusion generated by iterated maps
Published in Physical review letters (26-06-2000)“…We investigate the diffusion generated deterministically by periodic iterated maps that are defined by x(t+1) = x(t)+ax(z)(t)exp[-(b/x(t))(z-1)], z>1. It is…”
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Dendrimers as Controlled Artificial Energy Antennae
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Dynamic force spectroscopy: a Fokker–Planck approach
Published in Chemical physics letters (06-02-2002)“…In this Letter we show that recent observations using dynamic force spectroscopy can be described by a generalized Tomlinson model which includes the…”
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Barrier crossing of a Lévy flight
Published in Europhysics letters (01-11-2005)“…We consider the barrier crossing in a bistable potential for a random-walk process that is driven by Lévy noise of stable index α. It is shown that the…”
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Mesoscale Engines by Nonlinear Friction
Published in Nano letters (01-03-2007)“…A new approach to build mesoscopic-size engines that move translationally or rotationally and can perform useful functions such as the pulling of a cargo is…”
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