Superstatistical generalised Langevin equation: non-Gaussian viscoelastic anomalous diffusion

Abstract

Recent advances in single particle tracking and supercomputing techniques demonstrate the emergence of normal or anomalous, viscoelastic diffusion in conjunction with non-Gaussian distributions in soft, biological, and active matter systems. We here formulate a stochastic model based on a generalised Langevin equation in which non-Gaussian shapes of the probability density function and normal or anomalous diffusion have a common origin, namely a random parametrisation of the stochastic force. We perform a detailed analytical analysis demonstrating how various types of parameter distributions for the memory kernel result in the exponential, power law, or power-log law tails of the memory functions. The studied system is also shown to exhibit a further unusual property: the velocity has a Gaussian one point probability density but non-Gaussian joint distributions. This behaviour is reflected in relaxation from Gaussian to non-Gaussian distribution observed for the position variable. We show that our theoretical results are in excellent agreement with Monte Carlo simulations.

40 pages, 7 figures

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