Current relaxation in the Random Resistor cum Tunneling Network Model through First-Passage route : Regimes and Time-scales

TL;DR

This study numerically analyzes the relaxation dynamics of current in a Random Resistor cum Tunneling Network model, revealing a single dominant time-scale and sub-diffusive charge transport behavior.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed numerical investigation of relaxation regimes and identifies a single controlling time-scale in the RRTN model.

Findings

Existence of distinct temporal relaxation regimes.

Identification of a single dominant time-scale.

Evidence of sub-diffusive charge carrier motion.

Abstract

Numerically we study the bulk current relaxation in percolative Random Resistor cum Tunneling Network (RRTN) model through a first-passage route. The RRTN considers an extra semi-classical barrier-crossing process over a voltage threshold within a framework of classical RRN bond percolation model. We identify the different temporal regimes of relaxation and corresponding phenomenological time-scales, which fix up the extents of different regimes. These time-scales were previously identified in refs. \cite{relax-physicaA, aksubh}. We investigate on the distributions of these time-scales and observe that there exists a perfect correlation among them in the thermodynamic limit. We conclude that there exists a single time-scale which controls the RRTN dynamics. The variation of mean first-passage time .vs. system size seems to be due to sub-diffusive motion of charge carrier through the network.