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Anomalous Diffusion of Inertial, Weakly Damped Particles

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

The anomalous (i.e. non-Gaussian) dynamics of particles subject to a deterministic acceleration and a series of 'random kicks' is studied. Based on an extension of the concept of continuous time random walks to position-velocity space, a new fractional equation of the Kramers-Fokker-Planck type is derived. The associated collision operator necessarily involves a fractional substantial derivative, representing important nonlocal couplings in time and space. For the force-free case, a closed solution is found and discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0604245,
  title  = {Anomalous Diffusion of Inertial, Weakly Damped Particles},
  author = {R. Friedrich and F. Jenko and A. Baule and S. Eule},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0604245},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Submitted to Physical Review Letters

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