Rare events and scaling properties in field-induced anomalous dynamics

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/09/P09022zbMATH Open1456.82830arXiv1212.1447OpenAlexW3100630909MaRDI QIDQ3301700FDOQ3301700

Raffaella Burioni, Giacomo Gradenigo, A. Vezzani, Alessandro Sarracino, Angelo Vulpiani

Publication date: 11 August 2020

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

Abstract: We show that, in a broad class of continuous time random walks (CTRW), a small external field can turn diffusion from standard into anomalous. We illustrate our findings in a CTRW with trapping, a prototype of subdiffusion in disordered and glassy materials, and in the L'evy walk process, which describes superdiffusion within inhomogeneous media. For both models, in the presence of an external field, rare events induce a singular behavior in the originally Gaussian displacements distribution, giving rise to power-law tails. Remarkably, in the subdiffusive CTRW, the combined effect of highly fluctuating waiting times and of a drift yields a non-Gaussian distribution characterized by long spatial tails and strong anomalous superdiffusion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1447

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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