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Anomalous diffusion in correlated continuous time random walks

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-14 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate that continuous time random walks in which successive waiting times are correlated by Gaussian statistics lead to anomalous diffusion with mean squared displacement <r^2(t)>~t^{2/3}. Long-ranged correlations of the waiting times with power-law exponent alpha (0<alpha<=2) give rise to subdiffusion of the form <r^2(t)>~t^{alpha/(1+alpha)}. In contrast correlations in the jump lengths are shown to produce superdiffusion. We show that in both cases weak ergodicity breaking occurs. Our results are in excellent agreement with simulations.

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@article{arxiv.0910.1194,
  title  = {Anomalous diffusion in correlated continuous time random walks},
  author = {Vincent Tejedor and Ralf Metzler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.1194},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures. Slightly revised version, accepted to J Phys A as a Fast Track Communication

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