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Confined Anomalous Dynamics: A Fractional Diffusion Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Ralf Metzler
Affiliation:
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
Joseph Klafter
Affiliation:
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
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Abstract

We study different boundary value problems for fractional diffusion equations which describe a non-Brownian particle. Absorbing and reflecting walls of a box, and the escape problem through a fluctuating bottleneck with coloured noise are considered.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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