SCALE-INVARIANT MOTION IN INTERMITTENT CHAOTIC SYSTEMS

We investigate the dynamics generated from iterated maps and analyze the motion in terms of the probabilistic continuous-time random walk (CTRW) approach. Two different CTRW models are considered: (i) Particles jump between sites (turning points) or (ii) particles move at a constant velocity between sites and choose a new direction at random. For both models we study the mean-squared displacement [r2(t)] and the propagator P (r, t), the probability to be at location r at time t having started at the origin at t = 0. Iterated maps are used to generate both dispersive and enhanced diffusion and the results are analyzed using the CTRW framework and scaling arguments. For the case of dispersive motion we discuss the problem of the stationary state and point out its relevance.