Nonequilibrium density profiles in Lorentz tubes with thermostated boundaries

DOI10.1002/CPA.21567MaRDI QIDQ2802894zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Dolgopyat, Péter Nándori

Publication date 27 April 2016

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2304

zbMATH Keywords

heat equationlocal limit theorembilliardBrownian meanderconvergence to equilibriumLorentz tube

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Heat equation (35K05) Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We consider a long Lorentz tube with absorbing boundaries. Particles are injected to the tube from the left end. We compute the equilibrium density profiles in two cases: the semi-infinite tube (in which case the density is constant) and a long finite tube (in which case the density is linear). In the latter case, we also show that convergence to equilibrium is well described by the heat equation. In order to prove these results, we obtain new results for the Lorentz particle which are of independent interest. First, we show that a particle conditioned not to hit the boundary for a long time converges to the Brownian meander. Second, we prove several local limit theorems for particles having a prescribed behavior in the past.

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