Dichotomous acceleration process in one dimension: Position fluctuations

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/ACE3B5arXiv2304.11378MaRDI QIDQ6433958FDOQ6433958

Authors: Ion Santra, Durgesh Ajgaonkar, Urna Basu 

Publication date: 22 April 2023

Abstract: We study the motion of a one-dimensional particle which reverses its direction of acceleration stochastically. We focus on two contrasting scenarios, where the waiting-times between two consecutive acceleration reversals are drawn from (i) an exponential distribution and (ii) a power-law distribution with decay exponent $alpha$. We compute the mean, variance and short-time distribution of the position $x(t)$ using a trajectory-based approach. We show that, while for the exponential waiting-time, $langle{x}^2(t)anglesim{t}^3$ at long times, for the power-law case, a non-trivial algebraic growth $langle{x}^2(t)anglesim{t}^{2phi(alpha)}$ emerges, where $phi(alpha)=2$, $(5-alpha)/2,$ and $3/2$ for $alpha<1,1<alphaleq2$ and $alpha>2$, respectively. Interestingly, we find that the long-time position distribution in case (ii) is a function of the scaled variable $x/t^{phi(alpha)}$ with an $alpha$-dependent scaling function, which has qualitatively very different shapes for $alpha<1$ and $alpha>1$. In contrast, for case (i), the typical long-time fluctuations of position are Gaussian.

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