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Ehrenfest Wind-Tree Model is Dynamically Richer Than the Lorentz Gas

Dynamical Systems 2020-08-13 v1

Abstract

We consider a physical Ehrenfests' Wind-Tree model where a moving particle is a hard ball rather than (mathematical) point particle. We demonstrate that a physical periodic Wind-Tree model is dynamically richer than a physical or mathematical periodic Lorentz gas. Namely, the physical Wind-Tree model may have diffusive behavior as the Lorentz gas does, but it has more superdiffusive regimes than the Lorentz gas. The new superdiffusive regime where the diffusion coefficient D(t)~(ln t)^2 of dynamics seems to be never observed before in any model.

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@article{arxiv.2008.05385,
  title  = {Ehrenfest Wind-Tree Model is Dynamically Richer Than the Lorentz Gas},
  author = {Hassan Attarchi and Mark Bolding and Leonid A. Bunimovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.05385},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

21 pages, 9 figures

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