TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cherstvy, Andrey G.
A1  - Metzler, Ralf
T1  - Ergodicity breaking and particle spreading in noisy heterogeneous diffusion processes
T2  - The journal of chemical physics : bridges a gap between journals of physics and journals of chemistr
N2  - We study noisy heterogeneous diffusion processes with a position dependent diffusivity of the form D(x) similar to D-0 vertical bar x vertical bar (alpha 0) in the presence of annealed and quenched disorder of the environment, corresponding to an effective variation of the exponent a in time and space. In the case of annealed disorder, for which effectively alpha(0) = alpha(0)(t), we show how the long time scaling of the ensemble mean squared displacement (MSD) and the amplitude variation of individual realizations of the time averaged MSD are affected by the disorder strength. For the case of quenched disorder, the long time behavior becomes effectively Brownian after a number of jumps between the domains of a stratified medium. In the latter situation, the averages are taken over both an ensemble of particles and different realizations of the disorder. As physical observables, we analyze in detail the ensemble and time averaged MSDs, the ergodicity breaking parameter, and higher order moments of the time averages. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39005
SN  - 0021-9606
SN  - 1089-7690
VL  - 142
IS  - 14
PB  - American Institute of Physics
CY  - Melville
ER  -