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Statistical properties of billiards with diffusive boundary scattering are investigated by means of the supersymmetric sigma-model in a formulation appropriate for chaotic ballistic systems. We study level statistics, parametric level…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. M. Blanter , A. D. Mirlin , B. A. Muzykantskii

The boundaries of waveguides and nanowires have drastic influence on their coherent scattering properties. Designing the boundary profile is thus a promising approach for transmission and band-gap engineering with many applications. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 O. Dietz , H. -J. Stöckmann , U. Kuhl , F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov , J. Doppler , F. Libisch , S. Rotter

We analyze a simple model of deterministic diffusion. The model consists of a one-dimensional periodic array of scatterers in which point particles move from cell to cell as defined by a piecewise linear map. The microscopic chaotic…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Klages , J. R. Dorfman

Chaotic deterministic dynamics of a particle can give rise to diffusive Brownian motion. In this paper, we compute analytically the diffusion coefficient for a particular two-dimensional stochastic layer induced by the kicked Harper map.…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 P. Leboeuf

We present the detailed analysis of the diffusive transport of spatially inhomogeneous fluid mixtures and the interplay between structural and dynamical properties varying on the atomic scale. The present treatment is based on different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-19 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

We study the level spacing statistics p(s) and eigenfunction properties in a billiard with a rough boundary. Quantum effects lead to localization of classical diffusion in the angular momentum space and the Shnirelman peak in p(s) at small…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Klaus M. Frahm , Dima L. Shepelyansky

In the current work we construct a multimolecule random process which leads to the Boltzmann equation in the appropriate limit, and which is different from the deterministic real gas dynamics process. We approximate the statistical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-30 Rafail V. Abramov

We study the billiard map corresponding to a periodic Lorentz gas in 2-dimensions in the presence of small holes in the table. We allow holes in the form of open sets away from the scatterers as well as segments on the boundaries of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Mark Demers , Paul Wright , Lai-Sang Young

We study diffusion on a periodic billiard table with infinite horizon in the limit of narrow corridors. An effective trapping mechanism emerges according to which the process can be modeled by a L\'evy walk combining…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-03 Giampaolo Cristadoro , Thomas Gilbert , Marco Lenci , David P. Sanders

The experimental density dependence of gas (argon and nitrogen) permeability of partially densified silica aerogels in the Knudsen regime is quantitatively accounted for by a computer model. The model simulates both the structure of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Anwar Hasmy , Isabelle Beurroies , Daniel Bourret , Rémi Jullien

A discrete-time stochastic process derived from a model of basketball is used to generalize any discrete distribution. The generalized distributions can have one or two more parameters than the parent distribution. Those derived from…

Applications · Statistics 2020-06-25 Rose Baker

We refine a fluctuation-dissipation framework for quantum dynamical semigroups to resolve a long-standing ambiguity in Markovian master equations. For finite-dimensional systems, we prove that the underlying diffusion-dissipation structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Fabricio Toscano , Sergey Sergeev

We calculate the diffusion coefficients of persistent random walks on cubic and hypercubic lattices, where the direction of a walker at a given step depends on the memory of one or two previous steps. These results are then applied to study…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-07 Thomas Gilbert , Huu Chuong Nguyen , David P Sanders

Hydrogen embrittlement in metals is strongly governed by hydrogen diffusion and trapping, yet predicting these effects in polycrystalline systems remains challenging. This work introduces a multiscale modeling framework that links atomistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Bhanuj Jain , Alaa Olleak , Junyan He , Adarsh Chaurasia , Davide Di Stefano

The classical Schrodinger bridge seeks the most likely probability law for a diffusion process, in path space, that matches marginals at two end points in time; the likelihood is quantified by the relative entropy between the sought law and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

In billiard systems with a flux line semiclassical approximations for the density of states contain contributions from periodic orbits as well as from diffractive orbits that are scattered on the flux line. We derive a semiclassical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2010-03-09 Martin Sieber

We investigate particle transport in the honeycomb billiard that consists of connected channels placed on the edges of a honeycomb structure. The spreading of particles is superdiffusive due to the existence of ballistic trajectories which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-31 Michael Schmiedeberg , Holger Stark

We study the ensemble-averaged conductance as a function of applied magnetic field for ballistic electron transport across few-channel microstructures constructed in the shape of classically chaotic billiards. We analyse the results of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Pluhar , H. A. Weidenmueller , J. A. Zuk , C. H. Lewenkopf

Systems are studied in which transport is possible due to large extension with open boundaries in certain directions but the particles responsible for transport can disappear from it by leaving it in other directions, by chemical reaction…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Z. Kaufmann