Detecting origins of subdiffusion: P-variation test for confined systems

Marcin Magdziarz and Joseph Klafter
Phys. Rev. E 82, 011129 – Published 20 July 2010

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method to distinguish between mechanisms leading to single molecule subdiffusion in confinement. We show that the method of p-variation, introduced in the recent paper [M. Magdziarz et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 180602 (2009)], can be successfully applied also for confined systems. We propose a test which allows distinguishing between heavy-tailed continuous-time random walk and fractional Brownian motion in the presence of binding potentials and reflecting boundaries. We apply our test to the experimental data describing motion of mRNA molecules inside E. coli cells. The results of the test show that it is more likely that fractional Brownian motion is the underlying process.

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  • Received 12 April 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.82.011129

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Marcin Magdziarz*

  • Hugo Steinhaus Center, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland

Joseph Klafter

  • School of Chemistry, Raymond and Beverly Sackler, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

  • *marcin.magdziarz@pwr.wroc.pl
  • klafter@post.tau.ac.il

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Vol. 82, Iss. 1 — July 2010

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