Scattering lengths and universality in superdiffusive Levy materials

作者：Burioni Raffaella^*; di Santo Serena; Lepri Stefano; Vezzani Alessandro

来源：Physical Review E, 2012, 86(3): 031125.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevE.86.031125

We study the effects of scattering lengths on Levy 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 dynamical 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.

• 出版日期2012-9-20