title: Langevin description of superdiffusive Lévy processes.
abstract: The description of diffusion processes is possible in different frameworks such as random walks or Fokker-Planck or Langevin equations. Whereas for classical diffusion the equivalence of these methods is well established, in the case of anomalous diffusion it often remains an open problem. In this paper we aim to bring three approaches describing anomalous superdiffusive behavior to a common footing. While each method clearly has its advantages it is crucial to understand how those methods relate and complement each other. In particular, by using the method of subordination, we show how the Langevin equation can describe anomalous diffusion exhibited by Lévy-walk-type models and further show the equivalence of the random walk models and the generalized Kramers-Fokker-Planck equation. As a result a synergetic and complementary description of anomalous diffusion is obtained which provides a much more flexible tool for applications in real-world systems.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eule
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zaburdaev
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Friedrich
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Geisel
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods*; D004058:Diffusion; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009068:Movement; D015203:Reproducibility of Results