Transport Properties of the Diluted Lorentz Slab
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We study the behavior of a point particle incident from the left on a slab of a randomly diluted triangular array of circular scatterers. Various scattering properties, such as the reflection and transmission probabilities and the scattering time are studied as a function of thickness and dilution. We show that a diffusion model satisfactorily describes the mentioned scattering properties. We also show how some of these quantities can be evaluated exactly and their agreement with numerical experiments. Our results exhibit the dependence of these scattering data on the mean free path. This dependence again shows excellent agreement with the predictions of a Brownian motion model.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0105082,
title = {Transport Properties of the Diluted Lorentz Slab},
author = {Hernan Larralde and Francois Leyvraz and Gustavo Martinez-Mekler and Raul Rechtman and Stefano Ruffo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0105082},
year = {2009}
}
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14 pages of text in LaTeX, 7 figures in Postscript