Fractional diffusion in periodic potentials

Details Fractional diffusion in periodic potentials Fractional diffusion in periodic potentials

2006-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604269v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/19/6/065114

Fractional, anomalous diffusion in space-periodic potentials is investigated. The analytical solution for the effective, fractional diffusion coefficient in an arbitrary periodic potential is obtained in closed form in terms of two quadratures. This theoretical result is corroborated by numerical simulations for different shapes of the periodic potential. Normal and fractional spreading processes are contrasted via their time evolution of the corresponding probability densities in state space. While there are distinct differences occurring at small evolution times, a re-scaling of time yields a mutual matching between the long-time behaviors of normal and fractional diffusion.

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