Anomalous diffusion on crumpled wires in two dimensions
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-11 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
It is investigated the statistical properties of random walks evolving on real configurations of a crumpled wire rigidly jammed in two dimensions. These crumpled hierarchical structures with complex topology are obtained from a metallic wire injected at a constant rate into a transparent planar cell of 20cm of diameter. The observed diffusion is anomalous with an exponent very close to that obtained at the threshold of two dimensional percolation. A comparison of the system studied in this paper with other systems of physical interest is also made, and an experimental consequence of our results is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0602567,
title = {Anomalous diffusion on crumpled wires in two dimensions},
author = {C. C. Donato and F. A. Oliveira and M. A. F. Gomes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0602567},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages including 4 figures. Physica A (2006). Preprint