Distribution of time-averaged observables for weak ergodicity breaking.
We find a general formula for the distribution of time-averaged observables for systems modeled according to the subdiffusive continuous time random walk. For Gaussian random walks coupled to a thermal bath we recover ergodicity and Boltzmann's statistics, while for the anomalous subdiffusive case a weakly nonergodic statistical mechanical framework is constructed, which is based on Lévy's generalized central limit theorem. As an example we calculate the distribution of X, the time average of the position of the particle, for unbiased and uniformly biased particles, and show that X exhibits large fluctuations compared with the ensemble average <X>.
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Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900 Israel.
Barkai
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