Non Gaussian information of heterogeneity in Soft Matter
arXiv:2001.00896 · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/131/18002
Abstract
Heterogeneity in dynamics in the form of non-Gaussian molecular displacement distributions appears ubiquitously in soft matter. We address the quantification of such heterogeneity using an information-theoretic measure of the distance between the actual displacement distribution and its nearest Gaussian estimation. We explore the usefulness of this measure in two generic scenarios of random walkers in heterogeneous media. We show that our proposed measure leads to a better quantification of non-Gaussianity than the conventional ones based on moment ratios.
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