Mobility transition in a dynamic environment

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/25/255003MaRDI QIDQ5169425zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Urna Basu, Christian Maes

Publication date 22 July 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5253, https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/481706

zbMATH Keywords

mobility transitionrandom environmentrandom walkstwo-dimensional-lattice Lorentz model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Processes in random environments (60K37) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: Depending on how the dynamical activity of a particle in a random environment is influenced by an external field $E$, its differential mobility at intermediate $E$ can turn negative. We discuss the case where for slowly changing random environment the driven particle shows negative differential mobility while that mobility turns positive for faster environment changes. We illustrate this transition using a 2D-lattice Lorentz model where a particle moves in a background of simple exclusion walkers. The effective escape rate of the particle (or minus its collision frequency) which is essential for its mobility-behavior depends both on $E$ and on the kinetic rate $gamma$ of the exclusion walkers. Large $gamma$, i.e., fast obstacle motion, amounts to merely rescaling the particle's free motion with the obstacle density, while slow obstacle dynamics results in particle motion that is more singularly related to its free motion and preserves the negative differential mobility already seen at $gamma=0$. In more general terms that we also illustrate using one-dimensional random walkers, the mobility transition is between the time-scales of the quasi-stationary regime and that of the fluid limit.

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