Continuous-time random walks
Continuous-time random walks
Up to now the book has considered the displacement and the return properties of a walker as functions of the number of steps. In physics and chemistry we however are mostly interested in the behavior of the corresponding properties as functions of time. Translating steps into time and back is done by assuming that a walker waits for the next step for a time t distributed according to a known density. Such a process is known as continuous time random walk (CTRW). The CTRW formalism is used to calculate the distribution of displacements, as well as first passage and return times. Special attention is paid to the case when the mean waiting time diverges, as a one often used in applications.
Keywords: continuous‐time random walks, waiting times, power‐law waiting time distributions, mean number of steps, first passage and return probabilities in CTRW
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