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Spinless particle in rapidly fluctuating random magnetic field

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study a two-dimensional spinless particle in a disordered gaussian magnetic field with short time fluctuations, by means of the evolution equation for the density matrix <x(1)ρ^(t)x(2)><x^{(1)} |\hat{\rho} (t)| x^{(2)}>; in this description the two coordinates are associated with the retarded and advanced paths respectively. The static part of the vector potential correlator is assumed to grow with distance with a power hh; the case h=0h = 0 corresponds to a δ\delta-correlated magnetic field, and h=2h = 2 to free massless field. The value h=2h = 2 separates two different regimes, diffusion and logarithmic growth respectively. When h<2h < 2 the baricentric coordinate r=(1/2)(x(1)+x(2))r = (1/2)(x^{(1)} + x^{(2)}) diffuses with a coefficient DrD_{r} proportional to xhx^{-h}, where xx is the relative coordinate: x=x(1)x(2)x = x^{(1)} - x^{(2)}. As h>2h > 2 the correlator of the magnetic field is a power of distance with positive exponent; then the coefficient DrD_{r} scales as x2x^{-2}. The density matrix is a function of rr and x2/tx^2/t,and its width in rr grows for large times proportionally to log(t/x2)log(t/x^2).

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9803329,
  title  = {Spinless particle in rapidly fluctuating random magnetic field},
  author = {V. G. Benza and B. Cardinetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9803329},
  year   = {2009}
}

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