From time series to superstatistics

Details From time series to superstatistics From time series to superstatistics

2005-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507411v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.72.056133

Complex nonequilibrium systems are often effectively described by a `statistics of a statistics', in short, a `superstatistics'. We describe how to proceed from a given experimental time series to a superstatistical description. We argue that many experimental data fall into three different universality classes: chi^2-superstatistics (Tsallis statistics), inverse chi^2-superstatistics, and log-normal superstatistics. We discuss how to extract the two relevant well separated superstatistical time scales tau and T, the probability density of the superstatistical parameter beta, and the correlation function for beta from the experimental data. We illustrate our approach by applying it to velocity time series measured in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow, which is well described by log-normal superstatistics and exhibits clear time scale separation.

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