Published October 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Diffusion in Lorentz lattice gas cellular automata: The honeycomb and quasi-lattices compared with the square and triangular lattices

  • 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