Linear response and Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for non-Poissonian renewal processes

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Published 17 September 2007 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation G. Aquino et al 2007 EPL 80 10002 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/80/10002

0295-5075/80/1/10002

Abstract

The Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) formalism is used to model the non-Poisson relaxation of a system response to perturbation. Two mechanisms to perturb the system are analyzed: a first in which the perturbation, seen as a potential gradient, simply introduces a bias in the hopping probability of the walker from one site to the other but leaves the occurrence times of the attempted jumps ("events") unchanged and a second in which the occurrence times of the events are perturbed. The system response is calculated analytically in both cases in a non-ergodic condition, i.e. for a diverging first moment in time. Two different Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorems (FDTs), one for each kind of mechanism, are derived and discussed.

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10.1209/0295-5075/80/10002