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Phys. Rev. E 74, 021108 (2006) [6 pages]

Dynamical origin of memory and renewal

R. Cakir,1 P. Grigolini,1,2,3 and A. A. Krokhin1
1Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 311427, Denton, Texas 76203, USA
2Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa and INFM, via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
3Istituto dei Processi Chimico Fisici del CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy

Received 24 June 2005; revised 5 May 2006; published 8 August 2006

We show that the dynamic approach to fractional Brownian motion (FBM) establishes a link between a non-Poisson renewal process with abrupt jumps resetting to zero the system's memory and correlated dynamic processes, whose individual trajectories keep a nonvanishing memory of their past time evolution. It is well known that the recrossings of the origin by an ordinary one-dimensional diffusion trajectory generates a Lévy (and thus renewal) process of index theta=1/2. We prove with theoretical and numerical arguments that this is the special case of a more general condition, insofar as the recrossings produced by the dynamic FBM generates a Lévy process with 0<theta<1. This result is extended to produce a satisfactory model for the fluorescent signal of blinking quantum dots.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.74.021108
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.021108
PACS: 05.40.Fb; 02.50.Ey; 05.60.Cd
KEYWORDS: Brownian motion, quantum dots, fluorescence, diffusion, stochastic processes

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