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Paper   IPM / Biological / 15736
School of Biological Sciences
  Title:   Crossover from anomalous to normal diffusion: truncated power-law noise correlations and applications to dynamics in lipid bilayers
  Author(s): 
1.  Daniel Molina-Garcia
2.  Trifce Sandev
3.  Hadiseh Safdari
4.  Gianni Pagnini
5.  Aleksei Chechkin
6.  Ralf Metzler
  Status:   Published
  Journal: New Journal of Physics
  No.:  10
  Vol.:  20
  Year:  2018
  Pages:   https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aae4b2
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
The emerging diffusive dynamics in many complex systems show a characteristic crossover behaviour from anomalous to normal diffusion which is otherwise fitted by two independent power-laws. A prominent example for a subdiffusive–diffusive crossover are viscoelastic systems such as lipid bilayer membranes, while superdiffusive–diffusive crossovers occur in systems of actively moving biological cells. We here consider the general dynamics of a stochastic particle driven by so-called tempered fractional Gaussian noise, that is noise with Gaussian amplitude and power-law correlations, which are cut off at some mesoscopic time scale. Concretely we consider such noise with built-in exponential or power-law tempering, driving an overdamped Langevin equation (fractional Brownian motion) and fractional Langevin equation motion. We derive explicit expressions for the mean squared displacement and correlation functions, including different shapes of the crossover behaviour depending on the concrete tempering, and discuss the physical meaning of the tempering. In the case of power-law tempering we also find a crossover behaviour from faster to slower superdiffusion and slower to faster subdiffusion. As a direct application of our model we demonstrate that the obtained dynamics quantitatively describes the subdiffusion–diffusion and subdiffusion–subdiffusion crossover in lipid bilayer systems. We also show that a model of tempered fractional Brownian motion recently proposed by Sabzikar and Meerschaert leads to physically very different behaviour with a seemingly paradoxical ballistic long time scaling.
Received 11 July 2018 Accepted 27 September 2018 Accepted Manuscript online 27 September 2018 Published 18 October 2018

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