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Consider the linear Boltzmann equation of radiative transfer in a half-space, with constant scattering coefficient $\sigma$. Assume that, on the boundary of the half-space, the radiation intensity satisfies the Lambert (i.e. diffuse)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Claude Bardos , François Golse , Iván Moyano

We prove a Central Limit Theorem for the finite dimensional distributions of the displacement for the 1D self-repelling diffusion which solves \begin{equation*} dX_t =dB_t -\big(G'(X_t)+ \int_0^t F'(X_t-X_s)ds\big)dt, \end{equation*} where…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Carl-Erik Gauthier

We prove approach to thermal equilibrium for the fully Hamiltonian dynamics of a dynamical Lorentz gas, by which we mean an ensemble of particles moving through a $d$-dimensional array of fixed soft scatterers that each possess an internal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. De Bievre , P. E. Parris

The present paper discusses the diffusion approximation of the linear Boltzmann equation in cases where the collision frequency is not uniformly large in the spatial domain. Our results apply for instance to the case of radiative transfer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Claude Bardos , Etienne Bernard , François Golse , Rémi Sentis

We study the long time behavior of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process under the influence of a periodic drift. We prove that, under the standard diffusive rescaling, the law of the particle position converges weakly to the law of a Brownian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hairer , G. A. Pavliotis

We show that the time evolution of a quantum wavepacket in a periodic potential converges in a combined high-frequency/Boltzmann-Grad limit, up to second order in the coupling constant, to terms that are compatible with the linear Boltzmann…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Jory Griffin , Jens Marklof

We prove a nonstandard central limit theorem and weak invariance principle, with superdiffusive normalisation $(t\log t)^{1/2}$, for geodesic flows on a class of nonpositively curved surfaces with flat cylinder. We also prove that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Yuri Lima , Carlos Matheus , Ian Melbourne

We present a mechanism for thermalizing a moving particle by microscopic deterministic scattering. As an example, we consider the periodic Lorentz gas. We modify the collision rules by including energy transfer between particle and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Klages , K. Rateitschak , G. Nicolis

The fractional diffusion equation is rigorously derived as a scaling limit from a deterministic Rayleigh gas, where particles interact via short range potentials with support of size $\varepsilon$ and the background is distributed in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Karsten Matthies , Theodora Syntaka

We revisit the problem of diffusion in a driven system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric time-periodic force. We reveal parameter domains in which diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 I. G. Marchenko , A. Zhiglo , V. Aksenova , V. Tkachenko , I. I. Marchenko , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

We study Lorentz processes in two different settings. Both cases are characterized by infinite expectation of the free-flight times, contrary to what happens in the classical Gallavotti-Spohn models. Under a suitable Boltzmann-Grad type…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Lorenzo Facciaroni , Costantino Ricciuti , Enrico Scalas , Bruno Toaldo

An approximate stochastic model for the topological dynamics of the periodic triangular Lorentz gas is constructed. The model, together with an extremum principle, is used to find a closed form approximation to the diffusion coefficient as…

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We rigorously derive non-equilibrium space-time fluctuation for the particle density of a system of reflected diffusions in bounded Lipschitz domains in $\mathbb R^d$. The particles are independent and are killed by a time-dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Zhen-Qing Chen , Wai-Tong Louis Fan

We investigate the diffusive motion of an overdamped classical particle in a 1D random potential using the mean first-passage time formalism and demonstrate the efficiency of this method in the investigation of the large-time dynamics of…

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We consider the evolution of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice in any dimension and subject to a potential consisting of a periodic part and a random part that fluctuates stochastically in time. If the random potential evolves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Jeffrey Schenker , F. Zak Tilocco , Shiwen Zhang

The long-time/large-scale, small-friction asymptotic for the one dimensional Langevin equation with a periodic potential is studied in this paper. It is shown that the Freidlin-Wentzell and central limit theorem (homogenization) limits…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Martin Hairer , Grigorios Pavliotis

In this article, I study the diffusive behavior for a quantum test particle interacting with a dilute background gas. The model I begin with is a reduced picture for the test particle dynamics given by a quantum linear Boltzmann equation in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jeremy Clark

In the recent times, test of Lorentz Invariance has been used as a means to probe theories of physics beyond the standard model. We describe a simple way of utilizing the polarimeters, which are a critical beam instrument at precision and…

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