Lorentz Gas at a Positive Temperature

Details Lorentz Gas at a Positive Temperature Lorentz Gas at a Positive Temperature

2010-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/1007.4589v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 3 figures, revtex4 format

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We investigate the evolution of a particle in a Lorentz gas where the background scatters move and collide with each other. As in the standard Lorentz gas, we assume that the particle is negligibly light in comparison with scatters. We show that the average particle speed grows in time as t^{lambda/(4+lambda)} in three dimensions when the particle-scatter potential diverges as r^{-lambda} in the small separation limit. The typical displacement of the particle exhibits a universal linear growth in time independently on the density of the background gas and the particle-scatter interaction. The velocity and position distributions approach universal scaling forms. We determine the former, while for the position distribution we establish conjecturally exact scaling forms for the one and two-dimensional Lorentz gas.

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