Is subdiffusional transport slower than normal?

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Goychuk, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; generalized Langevin equation; transport processes in biological cells; viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860662682     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477512400093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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