Microscopic chaos and diffusion

DOI10.1023/A:1026477605331MaRDI QIDQ5927971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carl P. Dettmann, E. G. D. Cohen

Publication date 19 March 2001

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0001062

zbMATH Keywords

billiardsBrownian motiondiffusionEhrenfest wind-tree modelLorentz gasmicroscopic chaosperiodic orbitstime series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Time series analysis of dynamical systems (37M10) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

Abstract: We investigate the connections between microscopic chaos, defined on a dynamical level and arising from collisions between molecules, and diffusion, characterized by a mean square displacement proportional to the time. We use a number of models involving a single particle moving in two dimensions and colliding with fixed scatterers. We find that a number of microscopically nonchaotic models exhibit diffusion, and that the standard methods of chaotic time series analysis are ill suited to the problem of distinguishing between chaotic and nonchaotic microscopic dynamics. However, we show that periodic orbits play an important role in our models, in that their different properties in chaotic and nonchaotic systems can be used to distinguish such systems at the level of time series analysis, and in systems with absorbing boundaries. Our findings are relevant to experiments aimed at verifying the existence of chaoticity and related dynamical properties on a microscopic level in diffusive systems.

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