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Diffusion of the random Lorentz process in a magnetic field

Probability 2024-11-07 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

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 established by the authors, we show that this 'magnetic Lorentz gas' satisfies an invariance principle in an intermediate scaling limit. That is, we apply the low-density (Boltzmann-Grad) limit and simultaneously take the limit as time goes to infinity, then prove convergence of the rescaled trajectory to a Brownian motion in this limit.

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@article{arxiv.2411.03984,
  title  = {Diffusion of the random Lorentz process in a magnetic field},
  author = {Christopher Lutsko and Balint Toth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03984},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome

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