arXiv · 1312.5102
Complex Statistics and Diffusion in Nonlinear Disordered Particle Chains
Abstract
We investigate dynamically and statistically diffusive motion in a Klein-Gordon particle chain in the presence of disorder. In particular, we examine a low energy (subdiffusive) and a higher energy (self-trapping) case and verify that subdiffusive spreading is always observed. We then carry out a statistical analysis of the motion in both cases in the sense of the Central Limit Theorem and present evidence of different chaos behaviors, for various groups of particles. Integrating the equations of motion for times as long as $10^9$, our probability distribution functions always tend to Gaussians and show that the dynamics does not relax onto a quasi-periodic KAM torus and that diffusion continues to spread chaotically for arbitrarily long times.
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Ch. G. Antonopoulos, T. Bountis, Ch. Skokos, L. Drossos. 2014-04-05. Complex Statistics and Diffusion in Nonlinear Disordered Particle Chains. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4871477
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