The scientists could now show in their study that even seemingly «normal» diffusion processes in certain cases may violate
ergodicity on surprisingly long time scales.
Not exact matches
A central aspect of the study was to investigate the atomic system
on time scales that are relevant for the establishment of
ergodicity.
The formal mathematical concepts like
ergodicity help in listing possibilities and in some cases in making discussion more understandable, but putting too much weight
on them may also be misleading.
The standard argument that we can predict climate better than weather is certainly based
on some kind of
ergodicity, perhaps not for the full phase space but for a fraction of it at the minimum.