Levy Flights in Inhomogeneous Media

Details Levy Flights in Inhomogeneous Media Levy Flights in Inhomogeneous Media

2002-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211111v4

Phys. Rev. Lett, 90:170601, 2003

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.170601

We investigate the impact of external periodic potentials on superdiffusive random walks known as Levy flights and show that even strongly superdiffusive transport is substantially affected by the external field. Unlike ordinary random walks, Levy flights are surprisingly sensitive to the shape of the potential while their asymptotic behavior ceases to depend on the Levy index $\mu $. Our analysis is based on a novel generalization of the Fokker-Planck equation suitable for systems in thermal equilibrium. Thus, the results presented are applicable to the large class of situations in which superdiffusion is caused by topological complexity, such as diffusion on folded polymers and scale-free networks.

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