Langevin picture of anomalous diffusion processes in expanding medium
Abstract
Anomalous diffusion in expanding media is analyzed through Langevin equations with subordinated processes, revealing distinct behaviors for subdiffusive and superdiffusive cases under different expansion rate forms.
Expanding medium is very common in many different fields, such as biology and cosmology. It brings a nonnegligible influence on particle's diffusion, which is quite different from the effect of an external force field. The dynamic mechanism of particle's motion in expanding medium has only been investigated in the framework of continuous-time random walk. To focus on more diffusion processes and physical observables, we build the Langevin picture of anomalous diffusion in expanding medium, and conduct detailed analyses in the framework of Langevin equation. With the help of a subordinator, both subdiffusion process and superdiffusion process in expanding medium are discussed. We find that the expanding medium with different changing rate (exponential form and power-law form) leads to quite different diffusion phenomena. The particle's intrinsic diffusion behavior also plays an important role. Our detailed theoretical analyses and simulations present a panoramic view of investigating anomalous diffusion in expanding medium under the framework of Langevin equation.
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