Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2012-02-29
Phys Rev E 85, 021147 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
Single particle tracking has become a standard tool to investigate diffusive properties, especially in small systems such as biological cells. Usually the resulting time series are analyzed in terms of time averages over individual trajectories. Here we study confined normal as well as anomalous diffusion modeled by fractional Brownian motion and the fractional Langevin equation, and show that even for such ergodic systems time-averaged quantities behave differently from their ensemble averaged counterparts, irrespective of how long the measurement time becomes. Knowledge of the exact behavior of time averages is therefore fundamental for the proper physical interpretation of measured time series, in particular, for extraction of the relaxation time scale from data.
Jeon Jae-Hyung
Metzler Ralf
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