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Anomalous diffusion in the presence of external forces: exact time-dependent solutions and entropy

arXiv:cond-mat/9511007 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.54.R2197

Abstract

The optimization of the usual entropy under appropriate constraints is closely related to the Gaussian form of the exact time-dependent solution of the Fokker-Planck equation describing an important class of normal diffusions. We show here that the optimization of the generalized entropic form (with ) is closely related to the calculation of the exact time-dependent solutions of a generalized, nonlinear, Fokker Planck equation, namely , associated with anomalous diffusion in the presence of the external force . Consequently, paradigmatic types of normal () and anomalous () diffusions occurring in a great variety of physical situations become unified in a single picture.

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