Truncated Lévy flights and weak ergodicity breaking in the Hamiltonian mean-field model

Weak-ergodicity Breaking in Mean-field Spin-glass Models

Metastability in the Hamiltonian Mean Field model and Kuramoto model

We briefly discuss the state of the art on the anomalous dynamics of the Hamiltonian Mean Field model. We stress the important role of the initial conditions for understanding the microscopic nature of the intriguing metastable quasi stationary states observed in the model and the connections to Tsallis statistics and glassy dynamics. We also present new results on the existence of metastable s...

Chaos and Statistical Mechanics in the Hamiltonian Mean Field model

We study the dynamical and statistical behavior of the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model in order to investigate the relation between microscopic chaos and phase transitions. HMF is a simple toy model of N fully-coupled rotators which shows a second order phase transition. The canonical thermodynamical solution is briefly recalled and its predictions are tested numerically at finite N . The Vl...

Slow Lévy flights.

Among Markovian processes, the hallmark of Lévy flights is superdiffusion, or faster-than-Brownian dynamics. Here we show that Lévy laws, as well as Gaussian distributions, can also be the limit distributions of processes with long-range memory that exhibit very slow diffusion, logarithmic in time. These processes are path dependent and anomalous motion emerges from frequent relocations to alre...

Lévy flights in random environments.

We consider Lévy flights characterized by the step index f in a quenched random force field. By means of a dynamic renormalization group analysis we find that the dynamic exponent z for f < 2 locks onto f , independent of dimension and independent of the presence of weak quenched disorder. The critical dimension, however, depends on the step index f for f < 2 and is given by dc = 2f − 2. For d ...