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p-Adic description of characteristic relaxation in complex systems

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

This work is a further development of an approach to the description of relaxation processes in complex systems on the basis of the p-adic analysis. We show that three types of relaxation fitted into the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts law, the power decay law, or the logarithmic decay law, are similar random processes. Inherently, these processes are ultrametric and are described by the p-adic master equation. The physical meaning of this equation is explained in terms of a random walk constrained by a hierarchical energy landscape. We also discuss relations between the relaxation kinetics and the energy landscapes.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210447,
  title  = {p-Adic description of characteristic relaxation in complex systems},
  author = {V. A. Avetisov and A. Kh. Bikulov and V. A. Osipov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210447},
  year   = {2009}
}

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AMS-LaTeX (+iopart style), 9 pages, submitted to J.Phys.A

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