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Absence of self-averaging in the complex admittance for transport through random media

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-10-31 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

A random walk model in a one dimensional disordered medium with an oscillatory input current is presented as a generic model of boundary perturbation methods to investigate properties of a transport process in a disordered medium. It is rigorously shown that an admittance which is equal to the Fourier-Laplace transform of the first-passage time distribution is non-self-averaging when the disorder is strong. The low frequency behavior of the disorder-averaged admittance, <χ>1ωμ<\chi > -1 \sim \omega^{\mu} where μ<1\mu < 1, does not coincide with the low frequency behavior of the admittance for any sample, χ1ω\chi - 1 \sim \omega. It implies that the Cole-Cole plot of <χ><\chi> appears at a different position from the Cole-Cole plots of χ\chi of any sample. These results are confirmed by Monte-Carlo simulations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0012457,
  title  = {Absence of self-averaging in the complex admittance for transport through random media},
  author = {Mitsuhiro Kawasaki and Takashi Odagaki and Klaus W. Kehr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0012457},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures, published in Phys. Rev. B