Published February 14, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Anomalous diffusion producing normal relaxation and transport

  • 1. Physics Department, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402 (United States)
  • 2. Office of Naval Research, ONR 30, 875 N. Randolph Street, Arlington, VA 22203 (United States)

Description

From the Arrhenius law a probability distribution of timescales is derived by treating both the prefactor and the activation energy as random variables. In the defect-diffusion model this probability distribution is used to calculate the properties of the anomalous diffusion of defects. The timescales represent the pausing time distribution between movements of a defect. The conditions are determined for these mobile defects to produce stretched exponential relaxation. The diffusion of a single defect is anomalous, but the collective effect of all defects produces a characteristic relaxation timescale. The temperature and pressure dependence of this timescale is used to determine conductivity, dielectric relaxation, and viscosity

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0953-8984/19/6/065121;
PII
S0953-8984(07)29730-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
19
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 065121
ISSN
0953-8984
CODEN
JCOMEL

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38080847
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
ACTIVATION ENERGY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; PROBABILITY; RANDOMNESS; RELAXATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VISCOSITY
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY; MATERIALS