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arxiv: 0801.2914 · v1 · submitted 2008-01-18 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech · math.PR

Asymptotics for the survival probability of a Rouse chain monomer

classification ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech math.PR
keywords monomertimeanomalouschaindiffusionfixedfunctionprobability
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We study the long-time asymptotical behavior of the survival probability P_t of a tagged monomer of an infinitely long Rouse chain in presence of two fixed absorbing boundaries, placed at x = \pm L. Mean-square displacement of a tagged monomer obeys \bar{X^2(t)} \sim t^{1/2} at all times, which signifies that its dynamics is an anomalous diffusion process. Constructing lower and upper bounds on P_t, which have the same time-dependence but slightly differ by numerical factors in the definition of the characteristic relaxation time, we show that P_t is a stretched-exponential function of time, \ln(P_t) \sim - t^{1/2}/L^2. This implies that the distribution function of the first exit time from a fixed interval [-L,L] for such an anomalous diffusion has all moments.

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