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Diffusion Limit of the Low-Density Magnetic Lorentz Gas

Mathematical Physics 2024-12-17 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP Probability

Abstract

We consider the magnetic Lorentz gas proposed by Bobylev et al. [4], which describes a point particle moving in a random distribution of hard-disk obstacles in R2\mathbb{R}^2 under the influence of a constant magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. We show that, in the coupled low-density and diffusion limit, when the intensity of the magnetic field is smaller than 8π3\frac{8\pi}{3}, the non-Markovian effects induced by the magnetic field become sufficiently weak. Consequently, the particle's probability distribution converges to the solution of the heat equation with a diffusion coefficient dependent on the magnetic field and given by the Green-Kubo formula. This formula is derived from the generator of the generalized Boltzmann process associated with the generalized Boltzmann equation, as predicted in [4].

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@article{arxiv.2412.11134,
  title  = {Diffusion Limit of the Low-Density Magnetic Lorentz Gas},
  author = {Alessia Nota and Dominik Nowak and Chiara Saffirio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11134},
  year   = {2024}
}

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30 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome