Dynamical transition for a particle in a squared Gaussian potential

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/5/004MaRDI QIDQ3425249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clément Touya, David S. Dean

Publication date 7 March 2007

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610470

zbMATH Keywords

anomalous diffusiondiffusionrandom environmenttrap model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Processes in random environments (60K37) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: We study the problem of a Brownian particle diffusing in finite dimensions in a potential given by $psi=ph{i}^2/2$ where $phi$ is Gaussian random field. Exact results for the diffusion constant in the high temperature phase are given in one and two dimensions and it is shown to vanish in a power-law fashion at the dynamical transition temperature. Our results are confronted with numerical simulations where the Gaussian field is constructed, in a standard way, as a sum over random Fourier modes. We show that when the number of Fourier modes is finite the low temperature diffusion constant becomes non-zero and has an Arrhenius form. Thus we have a simple model with a fully understood finite size scaling theory for the dynamical transition. In addition we analyse the nature of the anomalous diffusion in the low temperature regime and show that the anomalous exponent agrees with that predicted by a trap model.

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