Area-preserving irrotational diffeomorphisms of the torus with sublinear diffusion

Abstract

We construct a $C^\infty$ area-preserving diffeomorphism of the two-dimensional torus which is Bernoulli (in particular, ergodic) with respect to Lebesgue measure, homotopic to the identity, and has a lift to the universal covering whose rotation set is $\{(0,0)\}$, which in addition has the property that almost every orbit by the lifted dynamics is unbounded and accumulates in every direction of the circle at infinity.