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Weakly driven anomalous diffusion in non-ergodic regime: An analytical solution

  • Department of Life Sciences
  • Imperial College London

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Abstract

We derive the probability density of a diffusion process generated by nonergodic velocity fluctuations in presence of a weak potential, using the Liouville equation approach. The velocity of the diffusing particle undergoes dichotomic fluctuations with a given distribution ψ(τ ) of residence times in each velocity state. We obtain analytical solutions for the diffusion process in a generic external potential and for a generic statistics of residence times, including the non-ergodic regime in which the mean residence time diverges. We show that these analytical solutions are in agreement with numerical simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number15
JournalEuropean Physical Journal B
Volume87
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2014

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