TY - JOUR A1 - Nezhadhaghighi, M. Ghasemi A1 - Chechkin, Aleksei V. A1 - Metzler, Ralf T1 - Numerical approach to unbiased and driven generalized elastic model T2 - The journal of chemical physics : bridges a gap between journals of physics and journals of chemistr N2 - From scaling arguments and numerical simulations, we investigate the properties of the generalized elastic model (GEM) that is used to describe various physical systems such as polymers, membranes, single-file systems, or rough interfaces. We compare analytical and numerical results for the subdiffusion exponent beta characterizing the growth of the mean squared displacement <(delta h)(2)> of the field h described by the GEM dynamic equation. We study the scaling properties of the qth order moments with time, finding that the interface fluctuations show no intermittent behavior. We also investigate the ergodic properties of the process h in terms of the ergodicity breaking parameter and the distribution of the time averaged mean squared displacement. Finally, we study numerically the driven GEM with a constant, localized perturbation and extract the characteristics of the average drift for a tagged probe. Y1 - 2014 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38154 SN - 0021-9606 SN - 1089-7690 VL - 140 IS - 2 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville ER -