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Universal anomalous diffusion of weakly damped particles

Chaotic Dynamics 2013-03-05 v1

Abstract

We show that anomalous diffusion arises in two different models for the motion of randomly forced and weakly damped particles: one is a generalisation of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with a random force which depends on position as well as time, the other is a generalisation of the Chandrasekhar-Rosenbluth model of stellar dynamics, encompassing non-Coulombic potentials. We show that both models exhibit anomalous diffusion of position xx and momentum pp with the same exponents: <x2>Cxt2<x^2> \sim C_x t^2 and <p2>Cpt2/5<p^2> \sim C_p t^{2/5}. We are able to determine the prefactors CxC_x, CpC_p analytically.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1354,
  title  = {Universal anomalous diffusion of weakly damped particles},
  author = {Vlad Bezuglyy and Michael Wilkinson and Bernhard Mehlig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1354},
  year   = {2013}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures

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