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Hierarchical Lorentz Mirror Model: Normal Transport and a Universal $2/3$ Mean--Variance Law

Statistical Mechanics 2026-03-05 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

The Lorentz mirror model provides a clean setting to study macroscopic transport generated solely by quenched environmental randomness. We introduce a hierarchical version whose distribution of left--right crossings satisfies an exact recursion. In dimensions d3d\geq 3, we prove normal transport: the mean conductance scales as (cross-section)/(length) on all length scales. A Gaussian closure, supported by numerics, predicts that the variance-to-mean ratio of the conductance converges to the universal value 2/32/3 for all d2d\geq 2 (the ``2/32/3 law''). We provide numerical evidence for the 2/32/3 law in the original (non-hierarchical) Lorentz mirror model in d=3d=3, and conjecture that it is a universal signature of normal transport induced by random current matching. In the marginal case d=2d=2, our hierarchical recursion reproduces the known scaling of the mean conductance and its variance. A YouTube video discussing the background and the main results of the paper is available: https://youtu.be/G1nqKd6MiXo

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@article{arxiv.2602.07988,
  title  = {Hierarchical Lorentz Mirror Model: Normal Transport and a Universal $2/3$ Mean--Variance Law},
  author = {Raphael Lefevere and Hal Tasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07988},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

17 pages, 14 figures, essential reference added in v2, minor changes in v3, v4, A YouTube video discussing the background and the main results of the paper is available: https://youtu.be/G1nqKd6MiXo