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Anomalous diffusion in quantum system driven by heavy-tailed stochastic processes

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-01-13 v3 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this paper, we study a stochastically driven non-equilibrium quantum system where the driving protocols consist of hopping and waiting processes. The waiting times between two hopping processes satisfy a heavy-tailed distribution. By calculating the squared width of the wavepackets, our findings demonstrate the emergence of various anomalous transport phenomena when the system remains unchanged within the heavy-tailed regime, including superdiffusive, subdiffusive, and standard diffusive motion. Only subdiffusion occurs when the system has evolved during the waiting process. All these transport behaviors are accompanied by a breakdown of ergodicity, highlighting the complex dynamics induced by the stochastic driving mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.2407.19489,
  title  = {Anomalous diffusion in quantum system driven by heavy-tailed stochastic processes},
  author = {Chenyue Guo and Yuchen Bi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19489},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 9 figures

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