Published in

American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 6(90)

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.062117

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Anomalous cross-field diffusion in a magnetic trap

Journal article published in 2014 by Sergey E. Savel'ev ORCID, Fabio Marchesoni
This paper is available in a repository.
This paper is available in a repository.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Published version: archiving allowed
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

We numerically simulated the diffusion of a charged Brownian particle confined to a plane under the action of an orthogonal magnetic field with intensity depending on the distance from a center. Despite its apparent simplicity, this system exhibits anomalous diffusion. For positive field gradients, radial and angular dynamics are asymptotically subdiffusive, with exponents given by simple analytical expressions. In contrast, when driven by a weakly decaying field, the particle attains normal diffusion only after exceedingly long superdiffusive transients. These mechanisms can be related to Bohm diffusion in magnetized plasmas.