Hierarchical Lorentz Mirror Model: Normal Transport and a Universal $2/3$ Mean--Variance Law
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 , 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 for all (the `` law''). We provide numerical evidence for the law in the original (non-hierarchical) Lorentz mirror model in , and conjecture that it is a universal signature of normal transport induced by random current matching. In the marginal case , 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