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Non-homogeneous persistent random walks and averaged environment for the L\'evy-Lorentz gas

Statistical Mechanics 2019-06-14 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider transport properties for a non-homogeneous persistent random walk, that may be viewed as a mean-field version of the L\'evy-Lorentz gas, namely a 1-d model characterized by a fat polynomial tail of the distribution of scatterers' distance, with parameter α\alpha. By varying the value of α\alpha we have a transition from normal transport to superdiffusion, which we characterize by appropriate continuum limits.

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@article{arxiv.1805.09889,
  title  = {Non-homogeneous persistent random walks and averaged environment for the L\'evy-Lorentz gas},
  author = {Roberto Artuso and Giampaolo Cristadoro and Manuele Onofri and Mattia Radice},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.09889},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures