Machta-Zwanzig regime of anomalous diffusion in infinite-horizon billiards

作者:Cristadoro Giampaolo*; Gilbert Thomas; Lenci Marco; Sanders David P
来源:Physical Review E, 2014, 90(5): 050102(R).
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.90.050102

摘要

We study diffusion on a periodic billiard table with an infinite horizon in the limit of narrow corridors. An effective trapping mechanism emerges according to which the process can be modeled by a Levy walk combining exponentially distributed trapping times with free propagation along paths whose precise probabilities we compute. This description yields an approximation of the mean squared displacement of infinite-horizon billiards in terms of two transport coefficients, which generalizes to this anomalous regime the Machta-Zwanzig approximation of normal diffusion in finite-horizon billiards.

  • 出版日期2014-11-26