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Transport and Scaling in Quenched 2D and 3D L\'evy Quasicrystals

Statistical Mechanics 2015-03-19 v4

Abstract

We consider correlated L\'evy walks on a class of two- and three-dimensional deterministic self-similar structures, with correlation between steps induced by the geometrical distribution of regions, featuring different diffusion properties. We introduce a geometric parameter α\alpha, playing a role analogous to the exponent characterizing the step-length distribution in random systems. By a {\it single-long jump} approximation, we analytically determine the long-time asymptotic behavior of the moments of the probability distribution, as a function of α\alpha and of the dynamic exponent zz associated to the scaling length of the process. We show that our scaling analysis also applies to experimentally relevant quantities such as escape-time and transmission probabilities. Extensive numerical simulations corroborate our results which, in general, are different from those pertaining to uncorrelated L\'evy-walks models.

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@article{arxiv.1104.1817,
  title  = {Transport and Scaling in Quenched 2D and 3D L\'evy Quasicrystals},
  author = {Pierfrancesco Buonsante and Raffaella Burioni and Alessandro Vezzani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1817},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 11 figures; some concepts rephrased to improve on clarity; a few references added; symbols and line styles in some figures changed to improve on visibility