Through the analysis of unbiased random walks on fractal trees and continuous time random walks, we show that even if a process is characterized by a mean square displacement (MSD) growing linearly with time (standard behaviour) its diffusion properties can be not trivial. In particular, we show that the following scenarios are consistent with a linear increase of MSD with time: (i) the high-order moments,〈x(t)q〉 for q > 2 and the probability density of the process exhibit multiscaling; (ii) the random walk on certain fractal graphs, with non integer spectral dimension, can display a fully standard diffusion; (iii) positive order moments satisfying standard scaling does not imply an exact scaling property of the probability density. © 2014 EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Forte, G., Cecconi, F., & Vulpiani, A. (2014). Non-anomalous diffusion is not always Gaussian. European Physical Journal B, 87(5). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2014-40956-0
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