The Local and the Occupation Time of a Particle Diffusing in a Random Medium

Details The Local and the Occupation Time of a Particle Diffusing in a Random Medium The Local and the Occupation Time of a Particle Diffusing in a Random Medium

2002-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202067v2

Phys. Rev. Lett., 89 (2002) 060601

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages revtex, two column, minor typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.060601

We consider a particle moving in a one dimensional potential which has a symmetric deterministic part and a quenched random part. We study analytically the probability distributions of the local time (spent by the particle around its mean value) and the occupation time (spent above its mean value) within an observation time window of size t. The random part of the potential is same as in the Sinai model, i.e., the potential itself is a random walk in space. In the absence of the random potential, these distributions have three typical asymptotic behaviors depending on whether the deterministic potential is unstable, stable or flat. These asymptotic behaviors are shown to get drastically modified when the random part of the potential is switched on leading to the loss of self-averaging and wide sample to sample fluctuations.

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