Stretched-exponential behavior and random walks on diluted hypercubic lattices

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2011 Oct;84(4 Pt 1):041126. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.041126. Epub 2011 Oct 18.

Abstract

Diffusion on a diluted hypercube has been proposed as a model for glassy relaxation and is an example of the more general class of stochastic processes on graphs. In this article we determine numerically through large-scale simulations the eigenvalue spectra for this stochastic process and calculate explicitly the time evolution for the autocorrelation function and for the return probability, all at criticality, with hypercube dimensions N up to N=28. We show that at long times both relaxation functions can be described by stretched exponentials with exponent 1/3 and a characteristic relaxation time which grows exponentially with dimension N. The numerical eigenvalue spectra are consistent with analytic predictions for a generic sparse network model.