Friday, May 24, 2013

1305.5407 (Amir Aghamohammadi et al.)

Entropy as a measure of diffusion    [PDF]

Amir Aghamohammadi, Amir H. Fatollahi, Mohammad Khorrami, Ahmad Shariati
The time variation of entropy, as an alternative to the variance, is proposed as a measure of the diffusion rate. It is shown that for linear and time-translationally invariant systems having a large-time limit for the density, at large times the entropy tends exponentially to a constant. For systems with no stationary density, at large times the entropy is logarithmic with a coefficient specifying the speed of the diffusion. As an example, the large time behaviors of the entropy and the variance are compared for various types of fractional-derivative diffusions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5407

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