Anomalous diffusion of inertial, weakly damped particles.

Phys Rev Lett

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 9, D-48149 Münster, Germany.

Published: June 2006

The anomalous (i.e., non-Gaussian) dynamics of particles subject to a deterministic acceleration and a series of "random kicks" is studied. Based on an extension of the concept of continuous time random walks to position-velocity space, a new fractional equation of the Kramers-Fokker-Planck type is derived. The associated collision operator necessarily involves a fractional substantial derivative, representing important nonlocal couplings in time and space. For the force-free case, a closed solution is found and discussed.

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