Fractional kinetics emerging from ergodicity breaking in random media

We present a modelling approach for diffusion in a complex medium characterized by a random lengthscale. The resulting stochastic process shows subdiffusion with a behavior in qualitative agreement with single particle tracking experiments in living cells, such as ergodicity breaking, p- variation a...

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Autores: Molina-Garcia, D., Minh Pham, T., Paradisi, P., Manzo, C., Pagnini, G.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM)
Repositorio:BIRD. BCAM's Institutional Repository Data
OAI Identifier:oai:bird.bcamath.org:20.500.11824/325
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/325
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.01361.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.052147
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:fractional kinetics
anomalous diffusion
biophysics
generalized grey Bronian motion (ggBm)
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Sumario:We present a modelling approach for diffusion in a complex medium characterized by a random lengthscale. The resulting stochastic process shows subdiffusion with a behavior in qualitative agreement with single particle tracking experiments in living cells, such as ergodicity breaking, p- variation and aging. In particular, this approach recapitulates characteristic features previously described in part by the fractional Brownian motion and in part by the continuous-time random walk. Moreover, for a proper distribution of the lengthscale, a single parameter controls the ergodic- to-nonergodic transition and, remarkably, also drives the transition of the diffusion equation of the process from non-fractional to fractional, thus demonstrating that fractional kinetics emerges from ergodicity breaking.