Normal and anomalous diffusion of Brownian particles on disordered potentials

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2016.02.042MaRDI QIDQ1619480zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Salgado-García

Publication date 13 November 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02709

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motiondisordered systemsanomalous diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

Abstract: In this work we study the transition from normal to anomalous diffusion of Brownian particles on disordered potentials. The potential model consists of a series of "potential hills" (defined on unit cell of constant length) whose heights are chosen randomly from a given distribution. We calculate the exact expression for the diffusion coefficient in the case of uncorrelated potentials for arbitrary distributions. We particularly show that when the potential heights have a Gaussian distribution (with zero mean and a finite variance) the diffusion of the particles is always normal. In contrast when the distribution of the potential heights are exponentially distributed we show that the diffusion coefficient vanishes when system is placed below a critical temperature. We calculate analytically the diffusion exponent for the anomalous (subdiffusive) phase by using the so-called "random trap model". We test our predictions by means of Langevin simulations obtaining good agreement within the accuracy of our numerical calculations.

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