Title: Stochastic processes crossing from ballistic to fractional diffusion with memory: exact results
Author(s):

	V. Ilyin (Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel ) ,
	I. Procaccia (Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel) ,
	A. Zagorodny (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 252143 Kiev, Ukraine)

We address the now classical problem of a diffusion process that crosses over from a ballistic behavior at short times to a fractional diffusion (sub- or super-diffusion) at longer times. Using the standard non-Markovian diffusion equation we demonstrate how to choose the memory kernel to exactly respect the two different asymptotics of the diffusion process. Having done so we solve for the probability distribution function as a continuous function which evolves inside a ballistically expanding domain. This general solution agrees for long times with the probability distribution function obtained within the continuous random walk approach but it is much superior to this solution at shorter times where the effect of the ballistic regime is crucial.

Key words: fractional diffusion, memory effects, ballistic processes
PACS: 05.10.Cg, 05.20.Dd, 51.10+y

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