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arxiv: 1406.3518 · v1 · pith:FVIYLURNnew · submitted 2014-06-13 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech

Non-anomalous diffusion is not always Gaussian

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keywords diffusionrandomstandardtimedensityfractalmomentsprobability
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Through the analysis of unbiased random walks on fractal trees and continuous time random walks, we show that even if a process is characterized by a mean square displacement (MSD) growing linearly with time (standard behaviour) its diffusion properties can be not trivial. In particular, we show that the following scenarios are consistent with a linear increase of MSD with time: i) the high-order moments, $\langle [x(t)]^q \rangle$ for $q>2$ and the probability density of the process exhibit multiscaling; ii) the random walk on certain fractal graphs, with non integer spectral dimension, can display a fully standard diffusion; iii) positive order moments satisfying standard scaling do not imply an exact scaling property of the probability density.

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