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Lévy Diffusion Under Power-Law Stochastic Resetting.
Jianli Liu1, Yunyun Li1, Fabio Marchesoni1,2
1MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 28, 2026
Summary
Stochastic resetting of Lévy walks reveals distinct diffusive behaviors. Power-law resetting creates three regimes, including superdiffusion and localization, impacting search strategies.
Area of Science:
- Statistical Physics
- Complex Systems
- Non-equilibrium Dynamics
Background:
- Lévy walks exhibit anomalous diffusion, crucial for modeling phenomena from finance to biology.
- Stochastic resetting introduces a mechanism to confine random processes, altering their long-term behavior.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of different resetting strategies on Lévy walk diffusive dynamics.
- To characterize the mean squared displacement (MSD) under exponential and power-law resetting protocols.
Main Methods:
- Combined numerical simulations and theoretical analysis using renewal theory.
- Derivation of mean squared displacement (MSD) scaling laws for various resetting exponents.
Main Results:
- Exponential resetting leads to a sharp transition from superdiffusion to a saturated steady state.
- Power-law resetting (exponent β) results in three distinct MSD regimes: free superdiffusion (β<1), tunable superdiffusion (1<β<γ0+1), and localization (β>γ0+1).
- Theoretical MSD scaling laws show excellent agreement with simulation data.
Conclusions:
- The study provides a comprehensive understanding of how stochastic resetting shapes Lévy walk diffusion.
- Findings offer insights into optimizing search strategies and controlling transport in complex, non-equilibrium systems.
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