Lyapunov Exponents from Kinetic Theory for a Dilute, Field-driven Lorentz Gas

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1996-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9606006v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

7 pages, revtex, 3 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1974

Positive and negative Lyapunov exponents for a dilute, random, two-dimensional Lorentz gas in an applied field, $\vec{E}$, in a steady state at constant energy are computed to order $E^{2}$. The results are: $\lambda_{\pm}=\lambda_{\pm}^{0}-a_{\pm}(qE/mv)^{2}t_{0}$ where $\lambda_{\pm}^{0}$ are the exponents for the field-free Lorentz gas, $a_{+}=11/48, a_{-}=7/48$, $t_{0}$ is the mean free time between collisions, $q$ is the charge, $m$ the mass and $v$ is the speed of the particle. The calculation is based on an extended Boltzmann equation in which a radius of curvature, characterizing the separation of two nearby trajectories, is one of the variables in the distribution function. The analytical results are in excellent agreement with computer simulations. These simulations provide additional evidence for logarithmic terms in the density expansion of the diffusion coefficient.

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