CURRENT FLOW UNDER ANOMALOUS-DIFFUSION CONDITIONS - LEVY WALKS

被引:13
作者
ZUMOFEN, G
BLUMEN, A
KLAFTER, J
机构
[1] UNIV BAYREUTH, BAYREUTHER INST MAKROMEKULFORSCH, W-8580 BAYREUTH, GERMANY
[2] UNIV BAYREUTH, INST PHYS, W-8580 BAYREUTH, GERMANY
[3] TEL AVIV UNIV, SCH CHEM, IL-69978 TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1990年 / 41卷 / 08期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.41.4558
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We investigate the current flow under anomalous-diffusion conditions (disordered media and also turbulent motion) in the limit of strong-bias fields. A unified picture for anomalous behavior is provided by Lévy walks. These are continuous-time random walks with coupled spatial and temporal memories. We find that the long-time asymptotic behavior of the current adheres to the following power laws: dispersive transport decreasing and enhanced diffusion increasing with time. In both cases the characteristic exponents depend (in a complex way) on the memory terms. We corroborate the values of the exponents by Monte Carlo simulations. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:4558 / 4561
页数:4
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