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Some exact results for the trapping of subdiffusive particles in one dimension

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study a generalization of the standard trapping problem of random walk theory in which particles move subdiffusively on a one-dimensional lattice. We consider the cases in which the lattice is filled with a one-sided and a two-sided random distribution of static absorbing traps with concentration c. The survival probability Phi(t) that the random walker is not trapped by time t is obtained exactly in both versions of the problem through a fractional diffusion approach. Comparison with simulation results is made

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0311207,
  title  = {Some exact results for the trapping of subdiffusive particles in one dimension},
  author = {S. B. Yuste and L. Acedo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0311207},
  year   = {2007}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures