Lévy flights in a steep potential well

Abstract

Lévy flights in steeper than harmonic potentials have been shown to exhibit finite variance and a critical time at which a bifurcation from an initial mono-modal to a terminal bimodal distribution occurs (Chechkin et al., Phys. Rev. E {\bf 67}, 010102(R) (2003)). In this paper, we present a detailed study of Lévy flights in potentials of the type U(x)∝|x|^c with c>2. Apart from the bifurcation into bimodality, we find the interesting result that for c>4 a trimodal transient exists due to the temporal overlap between the decay of the central peak around the initial $\delta$-condition and the building up of the two emerging side-peaks, which are characteristic for the stationary state. Thus, for certain system parameters there exists a transient tri-modal distribution of the Lévy flight. These properties of LFs in external potentials of the power-law type can be represented by certain phase diagrams. We also present details about the proof of multi-modality and the numerical procedures to establish the probability distribution of the process.

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