Diffusion of the random Lorentz process in a magnetic field
Probability
2024-11-07 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Consider the motion of a charged, point particle moving in the complement of a Poisson distribution of hard sphere scatterers in two dimensions under the effect of a fixed magnetic field. Building on, and extending a coupling method established by the authors, we show that this 'magnetic Lorentz gas' satisfies an invariance principle in an intermediate scaling limit. That is, we apply the low-density (Boltzmann-Grad) limit and simultaneously take the limit as time goes to infinity, then prove convergence of the rescaled trajectory to a Brownian motion in this limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.03984,
title = {Diffusion of the random Lorentz process in a magnetic field},
author = {Christopher Lutsko and Balint Toth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03984},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
19 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome