Anomalous diffusion in disordered multi-channel systems
arXiv:1001.0841 · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2010/03/P03012
Abstract
We study diffusion of a particle in a system composed of K parallel channels, where the transition rates within the channels are quenched random variables whereas the inter-channel transition rate v is homogeneous. A variant of the strong disorder renormalization group method and Monte Carlo simulations are used. Generally, we observe anomalous diffusion, where the average distance travelled by the particle, [<x(t)>]_{av}, has a power-law time-dependence [<x(t)>]_{av} ~ t^{μ_K(v)}, with a diffusion exponent 0 \le μ_K(v) \le 1. In the presence of left-right symmetry of the distribution of random rates, the recurrent point of the multi-channel system is independent of K, and the diffusion exponent is found to increase with K and decrease with v. In the absence of this symmetry, the recurrent point may be shifted with K and the current can be reversed by varying the lane change rate v.
16 pages, 7 figures
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