Current flow under anomalous-diffusion conditions: Lévy walks
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 41 (8) , 4558-4561
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.41.4558
Abstract
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.Keywords
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