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Lévy-walk-like Langevin dynamics affected by a time-dependent force
1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Gansu Key Laboratory of Applied Mathematics and Complex Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The Lévy walk is a popular and more 'physical' model to describe the phenomena of superdiffusion, because of its finite velocity. The movements of particles are under the influence of external potentials at almost any time and anywhere. In this paper, we establish a Langevin system coupled with a subordinator to describe the Lévy walk in a time-dependent periodic force field. The effects of external force are detected and carefully analyzed, including the nonzero first moment (even though the force is periodic), adding an additional dispersion on the particle position, a consistent influence on the ensemble- and time-averaged mean-squared displacement, etc. Besides, the generalized Klein-Kramers equation is obtained, not only for the time-dependent force but also for the space-dependent one.
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