Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-12-14
Phys. Rev. E, 65, 046140 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
12 pages incl. 6 figures, with RevTex4, for A4 paper, in v2 some references were corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.65.046140
The probability density function (PDF) of the roughness, i.e., of the temporal variance, of 1/f^alpha noise signals is studied. Our starting point is the generalization of the model of Gaussian, time-periodic, 1/f noise, discussed in our recent Letter [T. Antal et al., PRL, vol. 87, 240601 (2001)], to arbitrary power law. We investigate three main scaling regions, distinguished by the scaling of the cumulants in terms of the microscopic scale and the total length of the period. Various analytical representations of the PDF allow for a precise numerical evaluation of the scaling function of the PDF for any alpha. A simulation of the periodic process makes it possible to study also non-periodic signals on short intervals embedded in the full period. We find that for alpha=<1/2 the scaled PDF-s in both the periodic and the non-periodic cases are Gaussian, but for alpha>1/2 they differ from the Gaussian and from each other. Both deviations increase with growing alpha. That conclusion, based on numerics, is reinforced by analytic results for alpha=2 and alpha->infinity. We suggest that our theoretical and numerical results open a new perspective on the data analysis of 1/f^alpha processes.
Antal Tibor
Droz Michel
Gyorgyi Géza
Racz Zoltan
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