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The Lorentz gas describes an ensemble of noninteracting point particles in an infinite array of spherical scatterers. In the present paper we consider the case when the scatterer configuration P is a fixed union of (translated) lattices in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Matthew Palmer , Andreas Strömbergsson

We analyze diffusion of small particles in a solid polymeric medium taking into account a short range particle-polymer interaction. The system is modeled by a particle diffusion on a ternary lattice where the sites occupied by polymer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Federico Camboni , Andreas Koher , Igor M. Sokolov

The Lorenz 1963 dynamical system is known to reduce in the steady state to a one-dimensional motion of a classical particle subjected to viscous damping in a past history-dependent potential field. If the potential field is substituted by a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Festa , A. Mazzino , D. Vincenzi

Propagation of a particle accelerated by an external field through a scattering medium is studied within the generalized Lorentz model allowing inelastic collisions. Energy losses at collisions are proportional to $(1-\alpha^{2})$, where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Ph. A. Martin , J. Piasecki

A multiple scattering model of a quantum particle interacting with a random Lorentz gas of fixed point scatterers is established in an Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension. At the core of the model, the scattering amplitude for the point…

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

We investigate single-particle diffusion in a two-state Langevin model where the friction coefficient randomly switches between low-friction (liquid-like) and high-friction (glassy-like) states. The dynamics are governed by the ratio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Fivos Perakis , Takeshi Kawasaki , Shinji Saito

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

We calculate the diffusion coefficient of an active tracer in a schematic crowded environment, represented as a lattice gas of passive particles with hardcore interactions. Starting from the master equation of the problem, we put forward a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-02 Pierre Rizkallah , Alessandro Sarracino , Olivier Bénichou , Pierre Illien

A 1-dimensional model for coherent quantum energy transfer through a complex of compressible boxes is investigated by numerical integration of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. Energy is communicated from one box to the next by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Mark A. Peterson

The mass transport in soft-sphere mixtures of small and big particles as well as in the disordered Lorentz gas (LG) model is studied using molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulations. The soft-sphere mixture shows anomalous small-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 Jürgen Horbach , Thomas Voigtmann , Felix Höfling , Thomas Franosch

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 this paper, we address the motion of charged particles subjected to a discrete spectrum of electrostatic waves. We focus on situations when transport dominates, leading to significant variations in particle velocity. Nonetheless, these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Didier Bénisti

This work presents a general thermodynamic approach to describe particle diffusion on a lattice, a model used to study transport processes in solids and on surfaces. By treating each lattice site as an open thermodynamic system, the effects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Matías A. Di Muro , Miguel Hoyuelos

We prove the invariance principle for a \emph{random Lorentz-gas} particle in 3 dimensions under the Boltzmann-Grad limit and simultaneous diffusive scaling. That is, for the trajectory of a point-like particle moving among infinite-mass,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Christopher Lutsko , Bálint Tóth

Diffusion of small particles is omnipresent in a plentiful number of processes occurring in Nature. As such, it is widely studied and exerted in almost all branches of sciences. It constitutes such a broad and often rather complex subject…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jakub Spiechowicz , Ivan G. Marchenko , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

We carry out driven diffusion Monte Carlo simulations of the two dimensional classical lattice Coulomb gas in an applied uniform electric field, as a model for vortex motion due to an applied d.c. current, in a periodic superconducting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Jong-Rim Lee , S. Teitel

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

The self-diffusion process of a hard sphere fluid confined by two parallel plates separated by a distance on the order of the particle diameter is studied. The starting point is a closed kinetic equation for the distribution function that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Manuel Mayo , María Isabel García de Soria , Pablo Maynar , José Javier Brey

The diffusion of a particle in a crowded environment typically proceeds through three regimes: for very short times the particle diffuses freely until it collides with an obstacle for the first time, while for very long times diffusion the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Nguiya P. Neo , Gary W. Slater

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