Distribution of Time-Averaged Observables for Weak Ergodicity Breaking
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We find a general formula for the distribution of time-averaged observables for systems modeled according to the sub-diffusive continuous time random walk. For Gaussian random walks coupled to a thermal bath we recover ergodicity and Boltzmann's statistics, while for the anomalous subdiffusive case a weakly non-ergodic statistical mechanical framework is constructed, which is based on L\'evy's generalized central limit theorem. As an example we calculate the distribution of : the time average of the position of the particle, for unbiased and uniformly biased particles, and show that exhibits large fluctuations compared with the ensemble average .
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.3865,
title = {Distribution of Time-Averaged Observables for Weak Ergodicity Breaking},
author = {Adi Rebenshtok and Eli Barkai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3865},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures