LEVY FLIGHTS WITH QUENCHED NOISE AMPLITUDES

Authors
Citation
R. Kutner et P. Maass, LEVY FLIGHTS WITH QUENCHED NOISE AMPLITUDES, Journal of physics. A, mathematical and general, 31(11), 1998, pp. 2603-2609
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Physics,"Physycs, Mathematical
ISSN journal
03054470
Volume
31
Issue
11
Year of publication
1998
Pages
2603 - 2609
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-4470(1998)31:11<2603:LFWQNA>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
We study the one-dimensional random walk of a particle in the presence of a short-range correlated quenched random field of jump lengths I(x ) drawn from a Levy type distribution p(l) similar to l(-1-f) with 0 < f < 2. We find the stochastic dynamics to be characterized by a novel length-time scaling relation that is caused by an effective jump-leng th distribution p(eff)(l) similar to l(-l-g) in the stationary state, which decays more rapidly than p(l), i.e. g greater than or equal to f . For f greater than or similar to 1.3, g becomes larger than 2 and th e particle diffuses normally although p(l) has no finite second moment . A scaling theory is developed that describes the dynamical crossover from the annealed to the quenched situation.