Residence Time Statistics for Normal and Fractional Diffusion in a Force Field

Details Residence Time Statistics for Normal and Fractional Diffusion in a Force Field Residence Time Statistics for Normal and Fractional Diffusion in a Force Field

2006-01-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601143v1

J. of Statistical Physics Vol 123 p. 883 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10955-006-9109-8

We investigate statistics of occupation times for an over-damped Brownian particle in an external force field. A backward Fokker-Planck equation introduced by Majumdar and Comtet describing the distribution of occupation times is solved. The solution gives a general relation between occupation time statistics and probability currents which are found from solutions of the corresponding problem of first passage time. This general relationship between occupation times and first passage times, is valid for normal Markovian diffusion and for non-Markovian sub-diffusion, the latter modeled using the fractional Fokker-Planck equation. For binding potential fields we find in the long time limit ergodic behavior for normal diffusion, while for the fractional framework weak ergodicity breaking is found, in agreement with previous results of Bel and Barkai on the continuous time random walk on a lattice. For non-binding potential rich physical behaviors are obtained, and classification of occupation time statistics is made possible according to whether or not the underlying random walk is recurrent and the averaged first return time to the origin is finite. Our work establishes a link between fractional calculus and ergodicity breaking.

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