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Passive advection of fractional Brownian motion by random layered flows

Statistical Mechanics 2020-06-24 v1

Abstract

We study statistical properties of the process Y(t)Y(t) of a passive advection by quenched random layered flows in situations when the inter-layer transfer is governed by a fractional Brownian motion X(t)X(t) with the Hurst index H(0,1)H \in (0,1). We show that the disorder-averaged mean-squared displacement of the passive advection grows in the large time tt limit in proportion to t2Ht^{2 - H}, which defines a family of anomalous super-diffusions. We evaluate the disorder-averaged Wigner-Ville spectrum of the advection process Y(t)Y(t) and demonstrate that it has a rather unusual power-law form 1/f3H1/f^{3 - H} with a characteristic exponent which exceed the value 22. Our results also suggest that sample-to-sample fluctuations of the spectrum can be very important.

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@article{arxiv.1909.09808,
  title  = {Passive advection of fractional Brownian motion by random layered flows},
  author = {Alessio Squarcini and Enzo Marinari and Gleb Oshanin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.09808},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages, 4 figures