Scattering lengths and universality in superdiffusive Lévy materials

Raffaella Burioni, Serena di Santo, Stefano Lepri, and Alessandro Vezzani
Phys. Rev. E 86, 031125 – Published 20 September 2012

Abstract

We study the effects of scattering lengths on Lévy walks in quenched, one-dimensional random and fractal quasilattices, with scatterers spaced according to a long-tailed distribution. By analyzing the scaling properties of the random-walk probability distribution, we show that the effect of the varying scattering length can be reabsorbed in the multiplicative coefficient of the scaling length. This leads to a superscaling behavior, where the dy-namical exponents and also the scaling functions do not depend on the value of the scattering length. Within the scaling framework, we obtain an exact expression for the multiplicative coefficient as a function of the scattering length both in the annealed and in the quenched random and fractal cases. Our analytic results are compared with numerical simulations, with excellent agreement, and are supposed to hold also in higher dimensions.

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  • Received 4 June 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.031125

©2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Raffaella Burioni1,2, Serena di Santo1, Stefano Lepri3, and Alessandro Vezzani1,4

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Parma, viale G.P. Usberti 7/A, 43100 Parma, Italy
  • 2INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Parma, viale G.P. Usberti 7/A, 43100 Parma, Italy
  • 3CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  • 4Centro S3, CNR-Istituto di Nanoscienze, Via Campi 213A, 41125 Modena Italy

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Vol. 86, Iss. 3 — September 2012

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