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Investigation of the effect of pressure on metallurgical phenomena Final report, 20 Jun. 1960 - 30 Sep. 1965
Pressure effect on lead-thallium, tin telluride, and lead tellurid
Mandelbrot's 1/f fractional renewal models of 1963-67: The non-ergodic missing link between change points and long range dependence
The problem of 1/f noise has been with us for about a century. Because it is
so often framed in Fourier spectral language, the most famous solutions have
tended to be the stationary long range dependent (LRD) models such as
Mandelbrot's fractional Gaussian noise. In view of the increasing importance to
physics of non-ergodic fractional renewal models, I present preliminary results
of my research into the history of Mandelbrot's very little known work in that
area from 1963-67. I speculate about how the lack of awareness of this work in
the physics and statistics communities may have affected the development of
complexity science, and I discuss the differences between the Hurst effect, 1/f
noise and LRD, concepts which are often treated as equivalent.Comment: 11 pages. Corrected and improved version of a manuscript submitted to
ITISE 2016 meeting in Granada, Spai
Non-ergodic Intensity Correlation Functions for Blinking Nano Crystals
We investigate the non-ergodic properties of blinking nano-crystals using a
stochastic approach. We calculate the distribution functions of the time
averaged intensity correlation function and show that these distributions are
not delta peaked on the ensemble average correlation function values; instead
they are W or U shaped. Beyond blinking nano-crystals our results describe
non-ergodicity in systems stochastically modeled using the Levy walk framework
for anomalous diffusion, for example certain types of chaotic dynamics,
currents in ion-channel, and single spin dynamics to name a few.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Superaging correlation function and ergodicity breaking for Brownian motion in logarithmic potentials
We consider an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a confining
asymptotically logarithmic potential, which supports a normalized Boltzmann
equilibrium density. We derive analytical expressions for the two-time
correlation function and the fluctuations of the time-averaged position of the
particle for large but finite times. We characterize the occurrence of aging
and nonergodic behavior as a function of the depth of the potential, and
support our predictions with extensive Langevin simulations. While the
Boltzmann measure is used to obtain stationary correlation functions, we show
how the non-normalizable infinite covariant density is related to the
super-aging behavior.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figure
Residence Time Statistics for Normal and Fractional Diffusion in a Force Field
We investigate statistics of occupation times for an over-damped Brownian
particle in an external force field. A backward Fokker-Planck equation
introduced by
Majumdar and Comtet describing the distribution of occupation times is
solved. The solution gives a general relation between occupation time
statistics and probability currents which are found from solutions of the
corresponding problem of first passage time. This general relationship between
occupation times and first passage times, is valid for normal Markovian
diffusion and for non-Markovian sub-diffusion, the latter modeled using the
fractional Fokker-Planck equation. For binding potential fields we find in the
long time limit ergodic behavior for normal diffusion, while for the fractional
framework weak ergodicity breaking is found, in agreement with previous results
of Bel and Barkai on the continuous time random walk on a lattice. For
non-binding potential rich physical behaviors are obtained, and classification
of occupation time statistics is made possible according to whether or not the
underlying random walk is recurrent and the averaged first return time to the
origin is finite. Our work establishes a link between fractional calculus and
ergodicity breaking.Comment: 12 page
Weakly non-ergodic Statistical Physics
We find a general formula for the distribution of time averaged observables
for weakly non-ergodic systems. Such type of ergodicity breaking is known to
describe certain systems which exhibit anomalous fluctuations, e.g. blinking
quantum dots and the sub-diffusive continuous time random walk model. When the
fluctuations become normal we recover usual ergodic statistical mechanics.
Examples of a particle undergoing fractional dynamics in a binding force field
are worked out in detail. We briefly discuss possible physical applications in
single particle experiments
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