English

Levy flights and multifractality in quantum critical diffusion and in classical random walks on fractals

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2012-09-03 v2 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We employed the method of virial expansion in order to compute the retarded density correlation function (generalized diffusion propagator) in the critical random matrix ensemble in the limit of strong multifractality. We found that the long-range nature of the Hamiltonian is a common root of both multifractality and Levy flights which show up in the power-law intermediate- and long-distance behavior, respectively, of the density correlation function. We review certain models of classical random walks on fractals and show the similarity of the density correlation function in them to that for the quantum problem described by the random critical long-range Hamiltonians.

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@article{arxiv.1205.7049,
  title  = {Levy flights and multifractality in quantum critical diffusion and in classical random walks on fractals},
  author = {V. E. Kravtsov and O. M. Yevtushenko and P. Snajberk and E. Cuevas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.7049},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

12 pages, 9 figures, v2: several typos corrected; submitted to PRB