Location

Innovation Lab, Room 213

Start Date

4-2-2025 10:00 AM

End Date

4-2-2025 10:30 AM

Presentation Date

2 April 2025, 10:00am - 10:30am

Meeting Name

2025 - Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

Department(s)

Physics

Second Department

Psychological Science

Comments

Advisor: Thomas Vojta

Abstract:

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of particles undergoing fractional Brownian motion. Specifically, we introduce a mean-density interaction in which each particle in the ensemble is coupled to the gradient of the total, time-integrated density produced by the entire ensemble. We report the results of extensive computer simulations for the mean-square displacements and the probability densities of particles undergoing one-dimensional fractional Brownian motion with such a mean-density interaction. We find two qualitatively different regimes, depending on the anomalous diffusion exponent α characterizing the fractional Gaussian noise. The motion is governed by the interactions for α<4/3 whereas it is dominated by the fractional Gaussian noise for α>4/3. We develop a scaling theory explaining our findings.

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Fractional Brownian motion with mean-density interaction

Innovation Lab, Room 213