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Abstract The stochastic trajectories of molecules in living cells, as well as the dynamics in many other complex systems, often exhibit memory in their path over long periods of time. In addition, these systems can show dynamic heterogeneities due to which the motion changes along the trajectories. Such effects manifest themselves as spatiotemporal correlations. Despite the broad occurrence of heterogeneous complex systems in nature, their analysis is still quite poorly understood and tools to model them are largely missing. We contribute to tackling this problem by employing an integral representation of Mandelbrot’s fractional Brownian motion that is compliant with varying motion parameters while maintaining long memory. Two types of switching fractional Brownian motion are analysed, with transitions arising from a Markovian stochastic process and scale-free intermittent processes. We obtain simple formulas for classical statistics of the processes, namely the mean squared displacement and the power spectral density. Further, a method to identify switching fractional Brownian motion based on the distribution of displacements is described. A validation of the model is given for experimental measurements of the motion of quantum dots in the cytoplasm of live mammalian cells that were obtained by single-particle tracking.
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Minimal model of diffusion with time changing Hurst exponent
Abstract We introduce the stochastic process of incremental multifractional Brownian motion (IMFBM), which locally behaves like fractional Brownian motion with a given local Hurst exponent and diffusivity. When these parameters change as function of time the process responds to the evolution gradually: only new increments are governed by the new parameters, while still retaining a power-law dependence on the past of the process. We obtain the mean squared displacement and correlations of IMFBM which are given by elementary formulas. We also provide a comparison with simulations and introduce estimation methods for IMFBM. This mathematically simple process is useful in the description of anomalous diffusion dynamics in changing environments, e.g. in viscoelastic systems, or when an actively moving particle changes its degree of persistence or its mobility.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2112862
- PAR ID:
- 10556145
- Publisher / Repository:
- IOP Publishing Ltd
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 35
- ISSN:
- 1751-8113
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 35LT01
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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