Invariance principle for the random Lorentz gas -- beyond the Boltzmann-Grad limit

DOI10.1007/S00220-020-03852-8zbMATH Open1462.82056arXiv1812.11325OpenAlexW3042389174MaRDI QIDQ2006401FDOQ2006401

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 9 October 2020

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the invariance principle for a emph{random Lorentz-gas} particle in 3 dimensions under the Boltzmann-Grad limit and simultaneous diffusive scaling. That is, for the trajectory of a point-like particle moving among infinite-mass, hard-core, spherical scatterers of radius $r$, placed according to a Poisson point process of density $varrho$, in the limit $varrhooinfty$, $ro0$, $varrho{r}^{2}o1$ up to time scales of order $T=o(r^{-2}{|logr|}^{-2})$. To our knowledge this represents the first significant progress towards solving rigorously this problem in classical nonequilibrium statistical physics, since the groundbreaking work of Gallavotti (1969), Spohn (1978) and Boldrighini-Bunimovich-Sinai (1983). The novelty is that the diffusive scaling of particle trajectory and the kinetic (Boltzmann-Grad) limit are taken simultaneously. The main ingredients are a coupling of the mechanical trajectory with the Markovian random flight process, and probabilistic and geometric controls on the efficiency of this coupling. Similar results have been earlier obtained for the weak coupling limit of classical and quantum random Lorentz gas, by Komorowski-Ryzhik (2006), respectively, ErdH os-Salmhofer-Yau (2007). However, the following are substantial differences between our work and these ones: (1) The physical setting is different: low density rather than weak coupling. (2)The method of approach is different: probabilistic coupling rather than analytic/perturbative. (3) Due to (2), the time scale of validity of our diffusive approximation -- expressed in terms of the kinetic time scale -- is much longer and fully explicit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11325

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zbMATH Keywords

Poisson point processBoltzmann-Grad limitdiffusive scaling limitinvariance principle (convergence to the Wiener process)Lorentz exploration processMarkovian flight processrandom Lorentz gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05)

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