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Unravelling the origins of anomalous diffusion: From molecules to migrating storks
oleh: Ohad Vilk, Erez Aghion, Tal Avgar, Carsten Beta, Oliver Nagel, Adal Sabri, Raphael Sarfati, Daniel K. Schwartz, Matthias Weiss, Diego Krapf, Ran Nathan, Ralf Metzler, Michael Assaf
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Diterbitkan: | American Physical Society 2022-07-01 |
Deskripsi
Anomalous diffusion or, more generally, anomalous transport, with nonlinear dependence of the mean-squared displacement on the measurement time, is ubiquitous in nature. It has been observed in processes ranging from microscopic movement of molecules to macroscopic, large-scale paths of migrating birds. Using data from multiple empirical systems, spanning 12 orders of magnitude in length and 8 orders of magnitude in time, we employ a method to detect the individual underlying origins of anomalous diffusion and transport in the data. This method decomposes anomalous transport into three primary effects: long-range correlations (“Joseph effect”), fat-tailed probability density of increments (“Noah effect”), and nonstationarity (“Moses effect”). We show that such a decomposition of real-life data allows us to infer nontrivial behavioral predictions and to resolve open questions in the fields of single-particle tracking in living cells and movement ecology.