Power-Law Tail Distributions and Nonergodicity

Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190602 – Published 4 November 2004

Abstract

We establish an explicit correspondence between ergodicity breaking in a system described by power-law tail distributions and the divergence of the moments of these distributions.

Received 25 May 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.190602

Authors & Affiliations

Eric Lutz

Department of Quantum Physics, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany
Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA