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, ?x(t) q ? 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 does not imply an exact scaling property of the probability density.

Non-anomalous diffusion is not always Gaussian

Fabio Cecconi;
2014

Abstract

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, ?x(t) q ? 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 does not imply an exact scaling property of the probability density.
2014
Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - ISC
RANDOM-WALKS; MOTION; MODELS; DYNAMICS
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