Oct 6 – 10, 2025
EIMI
Europe/Moscow timezone

Random Walks in a Dynamic Environment

Oct 7, 2025, 6:00 PM
20m
Room 2, 2nd floor

Room 2, 2nd floor

Session talk Section C: Field theoretical methods in statistical physics Section C: Field theoretical methods in statistical physics

Speaker

Andrew Babakin (Department of Physics, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; st068365@student.spbu.ru)

Description

The renormalization-group approach is used to investigate the possible IR behavior of a randomly walking particle in a random dynamic environment. The particle movement is modeled by the stochastic Fokker -- Planck equation. The dynamics of the environment are described by a random drift field $F_j$ with a pair correlator, which implies two limiting cases -- a "rapidly-changing" and time-independent ("frozen") drift field respectively. The stochastic problem is reformulated in terms of quantum field theory with a given action functional. The ultraviolet divergences are eliminated multiplicatively. The renormalization group equation has five attractors in the form of two-dimensional fixed points in the parameter space. Three of them are associated with the super-diffusion and sub-diffusion scaling regimes, when the normal propagation law for a particle cloud $R(t)\simeq t$ is violated.

Author

Andrew Babakin (Department of Physics, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; st068365@student.spbu.ru)

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