Evolution of a passive particle in a one-dimensional diffusive environment

DOI10.1214/22-EJP896MaRDI QIDQ6356185arXivFDO

Authors François Huveneers, François Simenhaus

Publication date 15 December 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/22-EJP896

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Processes in random environments (60K37) Anomalous diffusion models (subdiffusion, superdiffusion, continuous-time random walks, etc.) (60K50)

arXiv classification

math.PR

Abstract: We study the behavior of a tracer particle driven by a one-dimensional fluctuating potential, defined initially as a Brownian motion, and evolving in time according to the heat equation. We obtain two main results. First, in the short time limit, we show that the fluctuations of the particle become Gaussian and sub-diffusive, with dynamical exponent $3/4$. Second, in the long time limit, we show that the particle is trapped by the local minima of the potential and evolves diffusively i.e. with exponent $1/2$.

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