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Aging dynamics in interacting many-body systems

arXiv:1311.3790 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/16/11/113050

Abstract

Low-dimensional, complex systems are often characterized by logarithmically slow dynamics. We study the generic motion of a labeled particle in an ensemble of identical diffusing particles with hardcore interactions in a strongly disordered, one-dimensional environment. Each particle in this single file is trapped for a random waiting time with power law distribution , such that the values are independent, local quantities for all particles. From scaling arguments and simulations, we find that for the scale-free waiting time case , the tracer particle dynamics is ultra-slow with a logarithmic mean square displacement (MSD) . This extreme slowing down compared to regular single file motion is due to the high likelihood that the labeled particle keeps encountering strongly immobilized neighbors. For the case we observe the MSD scaling , where , while for we recover Harris law .

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