Asymmetric random walk

Exercise. In the asymmetric random walk there is at each step a probability q to step to the left and 1 — q to the right. Find pn(r) for this case. 

Exercise. The asymmetric random walk on an infinite lattice is governed by the master equation... 

However, in this case it is no longer possible to prove that J = 0. One cannot exclude the possibility of a constant flow from — oo to +00, as in the asymmetric random walk. Such solutions would describe, for instance, diffusion in an open system, such as diffusion through a medium between two reservoirs with different densities. The stationary solution is no longer unique, but depends on the current J, which depends on additional information concerning the physical problem one is dealing with. See Exercise. 

Exercise. Find the stationary distribution for the asymmetric random walk with reflecting boundary described for n 1 by (2.13) with a > fi, together with the special boundary equation... 

Exercise. As a model for diffusion in a gravitational field take the asymmetric random walk (2.13) for n = 0, 1,2,... with a reflecting pure boundary. 

Exercise. Same question for the asymmetric random walk (VI.2.13). 

To make the Fokker-Planck equation exact, rather than an approximation, one has to allow the coefficients in W to depend on a parameter e in such a way that the assumptions made are exact in the limit ->0.t) We demonstrate this approach for the asymmetric random walk, whose master equation (VI.2.13) is... 

Exercise. The asymmetric random walk (VIII.2.8) obeys neither (X.3.4) nor (1.1), but can be reduced to the latter type. Show that the result coincides with the treatment in VIII.2. 

Exercise. If there is a reflecting boundary at some site Lm = 1. Exercise. For the asymmetric random walk one may take R = + oo, L = — oo. Show that the splitting probability uphill is zero and downhill equal to unity. 

E. R. Weeks, J.S. Urbach, and H.L. Swinney. Anomalous diffusion in asymmetric random walks with a quasi-geostrophic flow example. PhysicaD, 97 291-310, 1996. 

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Exercise. In the case of a random walk (symmetric or asymmetric) the equations (3.4) and (3.5) can be solved. Find the solutions and compare them with those obtained in the previous section. 

It is stressed again that since is an average quantity, the coil is spherical on average. However, each individnal polymer molecule has a nonspherical asymmetrical shape. Furthermore, the monomer distribntion in the statistical coil is Ganssian that is, the density of the polymer segments decreases outwards from the center. It can be proven that for a random walk conformation, the segmental density distribution Pp(r) is given by... 

Suggestive examples that show the generality of such a model include the case of a general lattice random walk in (1 + 1) dimension, Figure 1.4(A), and the case of a directed walk in 1 + d dimension, that is the process (n, S ) =o,i,..., with S, like before, the partial sums of an IID sequence X, but this time Xi is a discrete random variable taking values in Z , with P(Xi = 0) > 0. Also in these cases we define if ( ) as the distribution of the returns to the origin of course it is very well possible that J if(n) < 1, like for d > 3 or if the walk is asymmetric. 

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