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Phys. Rev. E 80, 011101 (2009) [6 pages]

Anomalous diffusive behavior of a harmonic oscillator driven by a Mittag-Leffler noise

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A. D. Viñales1, K. G. Wang2, and M. A. Despósito1,3,*
1Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
2Department of Physics and Space Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901-6975, USA
3Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Received 5 March 2009; revised 13 May 2009; published 1 July 2009

The diffusive behavior of a harmonic oscillator driven by a Mittag-Leffler noise is studied. Using the Laplace analysis we derive exact expressions for the relaxation functions of the particle in terms of generalized Mittag-Leffler functions and its derivatives from a generalized Langevin equation. Our results show that the oscillator displays an anomalous diffusive behavior. In the strictly asymptotic limit, the dynamics of the harmonic oscillator corresponds to an oscillator driven by a noise with a pure power-law autocorrelation function. However, at short and intermediate times the dynamics has qualitative difference due to the presence of the characteristic time of the noise.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011101
PACS:
02.50.−r, 05.10.Gg, 05.40.Ca

*mad@df.uba.ar