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Area of Science:

  • Statistical Physics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Non-Brownian Motion

Background:

  • Lévy flights exhibit anomalous diffusion, deviating from standard Brownian motion.
  • Understanding particle behavior near boundaries is crucial in many physical systems.
  • The fractional Fokker-Planck equation governs Lévy flight dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine the probability distribution function (PDF) of Lévy flight positions.
  • To investigate the effect of an absorbing wall at the origin on this PDF.
  • To develop an analytical solution for the PDF using a perturbation approach.

Main Methods:

  • Perturbation scheme expanding in ε = 2-α around the Brownian motion solution (α = 2).
  • Solving the fractional Fokker-Planck equation associated with Lévy flights.
  • Numerical simulations and exact computation for α = 1 to validate results.

Main Results:

  • An explicit analytical solution for the PDF is derived, exact to the first order in ε.
  • The study conjectures the precise asymptotic behavior of the PDF for any α.
  • First subleading corrections to the asymptotic behavior are included.

Conclusions:

  • The perturbation method provides an accurate analytical approximation for Lévy flight PDFs near an absorbing wall.
  • The derived solution and conjectured asymptotic behavior are well-supported by numerical and exact computations.
  • This work offers insights into anomalous diffusion processes in confined systems.