Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-05-09
Phys. Rev. E 80, 061122 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
Commonly, normal diffusive behavior is characterized by a linear dependence of the second central moment on time, $< x^2(t) >\propto t$, while anomalous behavior is expected to show a different time dependence, $ < x^2(t) > \propto t^{\delta}$ with $\delta <1$ for subdiffusive and $\delta >1$ for superdiffusive motions. Here we demonstrate that this kind of qualification, if applied straightforwardly, may be misleading: There are anomalous transport motions revealing perfectly "normal" diffusive character ($< x^2(t) >\propto t$), yet being non-Markov and non-Gaussian in nature. We use recently developed framework \cite[Phys. Rev. E \textbf{75}, 056702 (2007)]{magdziarz2007b} of Monte Carlo simulations which incorporates anomalous diffusion statistics in time and space and creates trajectories of such an extended random walk. For special choice of stability indices describing statistics of waiting times and jump lengths, the ensemble analysis of paradoxical diffusion is shown to hide temporal memory effects which can be properly detected only by examination of formal criteria of Markovianity (fulfillment of the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation).
Dybiec Bartlomiej
Gudowska-Nowak Ewa
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