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  • 1Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China.

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Area of Science:

  • Statistical Physics
  • Anomalous Diffusion
  • Fractional Dynamics

Background:

  • Lévy flights exhibit anomalous diffusion, deviating from Brownian motion.
  • Inertial effects can significantly alter particle dynamics in complex systems.
  • Fractional Fokker-Planck equations model anomalous transport phenomena.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analytically and numerically investigate Lévy flights with inertia in diverse potentials.
  • To understand the influence of the inertial term on probability density functions and particle behavior.
  • To determine the escape rate dynamics for inertial Lévy flight particles from metastable potentials.

Main Methods:

  • Analytical and numerical solutions of the fractional Fokker-Planck equation.
  • Exact derivation of probability density functions for linear and harmonic potentials.
  • Application of the reactive flux method to calculate rate constants.

Main Results:

  • The inertial term shows transient contributions in linear potentials, negligible at long times.
  • Harmonic potentials exhibit infinite variance, with wider distributions due to inertia.
  • Particle velocity distributions remain Lévy-type, and spatial distributions show crossovers in anharmonic potentials.
  • Escape rates are nonmonotonic functions of the Lévy index.

Conclusions:

  • Inertia plays a crucial role in modifying Lévy flight dynamics across different potential landscapes.
  • The study provides exact solutions and analytical expressions for inertial Lévy flight systems.
  • Understanding these dynamics is vital for fields involving anomalous transport and diffusion processes.