Hierarchical Diffusion, Aging and Multifractality

Abstract

We study toy aging processes in hierarchically decomposed phase spaces where the equilibrium probability distributions are multifractal. We found that the an auto-correlation function, survival-return probability, shows crossover behavior from a power law $t^{-x}$ in the quasi-equilibrium regime ($t\ll\tw$) to another power law $t^{-\lambda}$ ($\lambda \geq x$) in the off-equilibrium regime ($t\gg\tw$) obeying a simple $t/\tw$ scaling law. The exponents $x$ and $\lambda$ are related with the so called mass exponents which characterize the multifractality.