Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-10-05
Acta Physica Polonica B, Vol. 38 (5), 1745 - 1758 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
15 pages, 4 figures, Presented at the XIX Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Krakow, Poland, May 14-17, 200
Scientific paper
The functional method to derive the fractional Fokker-Planck equation for probability distribution from the Langevin equation with Levy stable noise is proposed. For the Cauchy stable noise we obtain the exact stationary probability density function of Levy flights in different smooth potential profiles. We find confinement of the particle in the superdiffusion motion with a bimodal stationary distribution for all the anharmonic symmetric monostable potentials investigated. The stationary probability density functions show power-law tails, which ensure finiteness of the variance. By reviewing recent results on these statistical characteristics, the peculiarities of Levy flights in comparison with ordinary Brownian motion are discussed.
Dubkov Alexander A.
Spagnolo Bernardo
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