Self-avoiding modes of motion in a deterministic Lorentz lattice gas

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/31/315202zbMATH Open1302.82092arXiv1404.3629OpenAlexW3102325331MaRDI QIDQ2877412FDOQ2877412

Authors: E. G. D. Cohen, B. Z. Webb 

Publication date: 22 August 2014

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

Abstract: We study the motion of a particle on the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, whose sites are occupied by either flipping rotators or flipping mirrors, which scatter the particle according to a deterministic rule. For both types of scatterers we find a new type of motion that has not been observed in a Lorentz Lattice gas, where the particle's trajectory is a self-avoiding walk between returns to its initial position. We show that this behavior is a consequence of the deterministic scattering rule and the particular class of initial scatterer configurations we consider. Since self-avoiding walks are one of the main tools used to model the growth of crystals and polymers, the particle's motion in this class of systems is potentially important for the study of these processes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3629

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz lattice gasdeterministic dynamicsself-avoiding motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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