Biological & Soft Matter Seminar: NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS IN BROWNIAN AND FRACTIONAL-BROWNIAN SYSTEMS

Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam

28 July 2021, 11:00 
Ornstein Building, Room 103 
Biological & Soft Matter Seminar

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88904888353?pwd=dDIwaXRxSjlsVElkR0dXdTNPTGhnZz09

 

Abstract: 

Non-Gaussian shapes of the displacement probability density function (PDF) have been unveiled in an impressive number of systems. Apart from "Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion", non-Gaussianity was also shown in viscoelastic systems.
These are described by dynamics driven by fractional Gaussian noise, in which the PDF is typically Gaussian. I will discuss different conceptual approaches for the description of such non-Gaussian statistics as well as present concrete physical
examples from soft and biological matter.

 

 

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