English

Anomalous Diffusion in Infinite Horizon Billiards

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We consider the long time dependence for the moments of displacement < |r|^q > of infinite horizon billiards, given a bounded initial distribution of particles. For a variety of billiard models we find <|r|^q> ~ t^g(q) (up to factors of log t). The time exponent, g(q), is piecewise linear and equal to q/2 for q<2 and q-1 for q>2. We discuss the lack of dependence of this result on the initial distribution of particles and resolve apparent discrepancies between this time dependence and a prior result. The lack of dependence on initial distribution follows from a remarkable scaling result that we obtain for the time evolution of the distribution function of the angle of a particle's velocity vector.

Cite

@article{arxiv.nlin/0210062,
  title  = {Anomalous Diffusion in Infinite Horizon Billiards},
  author = {D. N. Armstead and B. R. Hunt and E. Ott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0210062},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, 7 figures Submitted to Physical Review E