Scarce defects induce anomalous diffusion

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA6505MaRDI QIDQ3303025zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Hidalgo-Soria, R. Salgado-García

Publication date 11 August 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01768

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We introduce a simple model of deterministic particles in weakly disordered media which exhibits a transition from normal to anomalous diffusion. The model consists of a set of non-interacting overdamped particles moving on a disordered potential. The disordered potential can be thought as a substrate having some "defects" scattered along a one-dimensional line. The distance between two contiguous defects is assumed to have a heavy-tailed distribution with a given exponent $alpha$, which means that the defects along the substrate are scarce if $alpha$ is small. We prove that this system exhibits a transition from normal to anomalous diffusion when the distribution exponent $alpha$ decreases, i.e., when the defects become scarcer. Thus we identify three distinct scenarios: a normal diffusive phase for $alpha>2$, a superdiffusive phase for $1/2<alphaleq2$, and a subdiffusive phase for $alphaleq1/2$. We also prove that the particle current is finite for all the values of $alpha$, which means that the transport is normal independently of the diffusion regime (normal, subdiffusive, or superdiffusive). We give analytical expressions for the effective diffusion coefficient for the normal diffusive phase and analytical expressions for the diffusion exponent in the case of anomalous diffusion. We test all these predictions by means of numerical simulations.

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