Trajectory statistics of confined Lévy flights and Boltzmann-type equilibria

Abstract

We analyze a specific class of random systems that are driven by a symmetric Lévy stable noise, where Langevin representation is absent. In view of the Lévy noise sensitivity to environmental inhomogeneities, the pertinent random motion asymptotically sets down at the Boltzmann-type equilibrium, represented by a probability density function (pdf) ${\rho }_{\ast }(x)\sim \exp [-\Phi (x)]$. Here, we infer pdf $\rho (x,t)$ based on numerical path-wise simulation of the underlying jump-type process. A priori given data are jump transition rates entering the master equation for $\rho (x,t)$ and its target pdf ${\rho }_{\ast }(x)$. To simulate the above processes, we construct a suitable modification of the Gillespie algorithm, originally invented in the chemical kinetics context. We exemplified our algorithm simulating different jump-type processes and discuss the dynamics of real physical systems where it can be useful.

Presented at 25th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Cracow, Sept. 10-13, 2012

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