| Literature DB >> 20365308 |
Yasmine Meroz1, Igor M Sokolov, Joseph Klafter.
Abstract
Single particle trajectories are investigated assuming the coexistence of two subdiffusive processes: diffusion on a fractal structure modeling spatial constraints on motion and heavy-tailed continuous time random walks representing energetic or chemical traps. The particles' mean squared displacement is found to depend on the way the mean is taken: temporal averaging over single-particle trajectories differs from averaging over an ensemble of particles. This is shown to stem from subordinating an ergodic anomalous process to a nonergodic one. The result is easily generalized to the subordination of any other ergodic process (i.e., fractional Brownian motion) to a nonergodic one. For certain parameters the ergodic diffusion on the underlying fractal structure dominates the transport yet displaying ergodicity breaking and aging.Entities:
Year: 2010 PMID: 20365308 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.010101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys ISSN: 1539-3755