Diffusion, super-diffusion and coalescence from a single step

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2007/10/P10007MaRDI QIDQ5239326zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Andrea Gabrielli, F. Cecconi

Publication date 22 October 2019

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2333

zbMATH Keywords

irreversible aggregation phenomena (theory)stochastic particle dynamics (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: From the exact single step evolution equation of the two-point correlation function of a particle distribution subjected to a stochastic displacement field $$, we derive different dynamical regimes when $$ is iterated to build a velocity field. First we show that spatially uncorrelated fields $$ lead to both standard and anomalous diffusion equation. When the field $$ is spatially correlated each particle performs a simple free Brownian motion, but the trajectories of different particles result to be mutually correlated. The two-point statistical properties of the field $$ induce two-point spatial correlations in the particle distribution satisfying a simple but non-trivial diffusion-like equation. These displacement-displacement correlations lead the system to three possible regimes: coalescence, simple clustering and a combination of the two. The existence of these different regimes, in the one-dimensional system, is shown through computer simulations and a simple theoretical argument.

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