Anomalous diffusion of charged particles in a lattice Lorentz gas in a transverse magnetic field

Czesław Oleksy
Phys. Rev. E 59, 3864 – Published 1 April 1999
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Abstract

We study diffusion in the Lorentz gas of noninteracting charged particles on a triangular lattice in a transverse magnetic field. The percolation threshold appears at the scatterers concentration c0=0.2155. The diffusion at c0 is anomalous with the same exponent dw=2.874 as the one found for the universality class of the standard two-dimensional lattice percolation. The presence of logarithmic corrections to the t2 algebraic tail of the velocity autocorrelation function is demonstrated in a special case for concentration of scatterers close to 1, by making use of the moment propagation technique. The results of our computer simulations show that the diffusion coefficient has a maximum above c0, and the velocity autocorrelation function changes the sign of its amplitude, from negative to positive, at intermediate scatterers concentration. We employ the Boltzmann approximation and calculate the diffusion coefficient and the velocity autocorrelation function.

  • Received 9 September 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.59.3864

©1999 American Physical Society

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Czesław Oleksy

  • Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Pl. Maksa Borna 9, 50-204 Wrocław, Poland

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Vol. 59, Iss. 4 — April 1999

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