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Diffusion in the Lorentz gas

Chaotic Dynamics 2017-06-29 v3 Statistical Mechanics Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The Lorentz gas, a point particle making mirror-like reflections from an extended collection of scatterers, has been a useful model of deterministic diffusion and related statistical properties for over a century. This survey summarises recent results, including periodic and aperiodic models, finite and infinite horizon, external fields, smooth or polygonal obstacles, and in the Boltzmann-Grad limit. New results are given for several moving particles and for obstacles with flat points. Finally, a variety of applications are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1402.7010,
  title  = {Diffusion in the Lorentz gas},
  author = {Carl P. Dettmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.7010},
  year   = {2017}
}

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28 pages, 5 figures

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