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We investigate the random flight process that arises as the Boltzmann-Grad limit of a random scatterer Lorentz gas with variable scatterer density in a gravitational field. For power function densities we show how the parameters of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Krzysztof Burdzy , Douglas Rizzolo

The cross section of elastic electron-proton scattering taking place in an electron gas is calculated within the Closed Time Path method. It is found to be the sum of two terms, one being the expression in the vacuum except that it involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Janos Polonyi , Karima Zazoua

We study quasi-one-dimensional scattering of one and two particles with short-range interactions on a discrete lattice model in two dimensions. One of the directions is tightly confined by an arbitrary trapping potential. We obtain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Valiente , Klaus Molmer

Consider the motion of a charged, point particle moving in the complement of a Poisson distribution of hard sphere scatterers in two dimensions under the effect of a fixed magnetic field. Building on, and extending a coupling method…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Christopher Lutsko , Balint Toth

We study the dynamics of a point particle in a periodic array of spherical scatterers, and construct a stochastic process that governs the time evolution for random initial data in the limit of low scatterer density (Boltzmann-Grad limit).…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-07 Jens Marklof , Andreas Strombergsson

A particle entering a scattering and absorbing medium executes a random walk through a sequence of scattering events. The particle ultimately achieves first-passage, leaving the medium or it is absorbed. The Kubelka-Munk model describes a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Claude Zeller , Robert Cordery

The periodic Lorentz gas is a paradigmatic model to examine how macroscopic transport emerges from microscopic chaos. It consists of a triangular lattice of circular hard scatterers with a moving point particle. Recently this system became…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-30 S. Gil-Gallegos , R. Klages , J. Solanpää , E. Räsänen

The Lorentz gas is a billiard model involving a point particle diffusing deterministically in a periodic array of convex scatterers. In the two dimensional finite horizon case, in which all trajectories involve collisions with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Carl P. Dettmann

We investigate the evolution of a particle in a Lorentz gas where the background scatters move and collide with each other. As in the standard Lorentz gas, we assume that the particle is negligibly light in comparison with scatters. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-08 L. D'Alessio , P. L. Krapivsky

The periodic Lorentz gas is the dynamical system corresponding to the free motion of a point particle in a periodic system of fixed spherical obstacles of radius $r$ centered at the integer points, assuming all collisions of the particle…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Emanuele Caglioti , François Golse

The dynamics of a point charged particle which is driven by a uniform external electric field and moves in a medium of elastic scatterers is investigated. Using rudimentary approaches, we reproduce, in one dimension, the known results that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

We demonstrate and analyze anomalous diffusion properties of point-like particles in a two-dimensional system with circular scatterers arranged in a square lattice and governed by smooth potentials, referred to as the square soft Lorentz…

In classical kinetic or kinetic-like models a particle free path distribution is exponensial, but this is more likely to be an exception than a rule. In this paper we derive a linear Boltzmann-like equation for a general free path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sergey A. Rukolaine

It is shown in the case of proton scattering on an electron gas target that the Closed Time Path formalism can handle final state interactions of the target in equilibrium in a simple and natural manner. The leading order cross section is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-18 F. Mansouri , J. Polonyi , K. Zazoua , N. Zekri

The periodic Lorentz gas describes an ensemble of non-interacting point particles in a periodic array of spherical scatterers. We have recently shown that, in the limit of small scatterer density (Boltzmann-Grad limit), the macroscopic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-17 Jens Marklof , Andreas Strombergsson

We perform numerical scattering experiments on a Lorentz array of disks centered on a triangular lattice with L columns and study its transmission and reflection properties. In the finite horizon case, the motion of the particles may be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hernan Larralde , Francois Leyvraz , Gustavo Martinez-Mekler , Raul Rechtman , Stefano Ruffo

A quasiparticle description of various condensed media is a very popular tool in study of their transport and thermodynamic properties. I present here a microscopic theory for the description of diffusion processes in two-component gas of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander V. Zhukov

We study the deterministic diffusion coefficient of the two-dimensional periodic Lorentz gas as a function of the density of scatterers. Results obtained from computer simulations are compared to the analytical approximation of Machta and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Klages , Chr. Dellago

The study of real-life network modeling has become very popular in recent years. An attractive model is the scale-free percolation model on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\ge1$, because it fulfills several stylized facts observed in large…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Philippe Deprez , Mario V. Wüthrich

The multiple scattering model of a quantum particle in a random Lorentz gas consisting of fixed point scatterers is considered in arbitrary dimension. An efficient method is developed to numerically compute the map of the density of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 David Gaspard , Jean-Marc Sparenberg