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Weak subordination breaking for the quenched trap model

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-05 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We map the problem of diffusion in the quenched trap model onto a new stochastic process: Brownian motion which is terminated at the coverage "time" Sα=x=(nx)α{\cal S}_\alpha=\sum_{x=-\infty} ^\infty (n_x)^\alpha with nxn_x being the number of visits to site xx. Here 0<α=T/Tg<10<\alpha=T/T_g<1 is a measure of the disorder in the original model. This mapping allows us to treat the intricate correlations in the underlying random walk in the random environment. The operational "time" Sα{\cal S}_\alpha is changed to laboratory time tt with a L\'evy time transformation. Investigation of Brownian motion stopped at "time" Sα{\cal S}_\alpha yields the diffusion front of the quenched trap model which is favorably compared with numerical simulations. In the zero temperature limit of α0\alpha\to 0 we recover the renormalization group solution obtained by C. Monthus. Our theory surmounts critical slowing down which is found when α1\alpha \to 1. Above the critical dimension two mapping the problem to a continuous time random walk becomes feasible though still not trivial.

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@article{arxiv.1205.5116,
  title  = {Weak subordination breaking for the quenched trap model},
  author = {Stas Burov and Eli Barkai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5116},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages. 7 figures

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