Diffusion in Lorentz lattice gas cellular automata: The honeycomb and quasi-lattices compared with the square and triangular lattices
Creators
- 1. Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
- 2. Rockerfellar Univ., NY (United States)
Description
We study numerically the nature of the diffusion process on a honeycomb and a quasi-lattice, where a point particle, moving along the bonds of the lattice, scatters from randomly places scatterers on the lattice sites according to strictly deterministic rules. For the honeycomb lattice fully occupied by fixed rotators two (symmetric) isolated critical points appear to be present, with the same hyperscaling relation as for the square and the triangular lattices. No such points appear to exist for the quasi-lattice. A comprehensive comparison is made with the behavior on the previously studied square and triangular lattices. A great variety of diffusive behavior is found, ranging from propagation, super-diffusion, normal, quasi-normal, and anomalous, to absence of diffusion. The influence of the scattering rules as well as of the lattice structure on the diffusive behavior of a point particle moving on the all lattices studied so far is summarized
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Statistical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 81
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 467-496.
- ISSN
- 0022-4715
- CODEN
- JSTPBS
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 28051249
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- BOLTZMANN STATISTICS; DIAGRAMS; DIFFUSION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LORENTZ GAS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL DATA
- Descriptors DEC
- DATA; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FLUIDS; FULLY IONIZED GASES; GASES; INFORMATION; IONIZED GASES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS