Statistical and dynamical properties of the discrete Sinai model at finitetimes

Citation
J. Chave et E. Guitter, Statistical and dynamical properties of the discrete Sinai model at finitetimes, J PHYS A, 32(3), 1999, pp. 445-468
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL
ISSN journal
03054470 → ACNP
Volume
32
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
445 - 468
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-4470(19990122)32:3<445:SADPOT>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We study the Sinai model for the diffusion of a particle in a one-dimension al quenched random energy landscape. We consider the particular case of dis crete energy landscapes made of random +/-1 jumps on the semi-infinite line z(+) with a reflecting wall at the origin. We compare the statistical dist ribution of the successive local minima of the energy landscapes, which we derive explicitly, with the dynamical distribution of the position of the d iffusing particle, which we obtain numerically. At high temperature, the tw o distributions match only in the large time asymptotic regime. At low temp erature however, we find even at finite times a clear correspondence betwee n the statistical and dynamical distributions; with additional interesting oscillatory behaviours.