Random walks on cubic lattices with bond disorder
Description
The authors consider diffusive systems with static disorder, such as Lorentz gases, lattice percolation, ants in a labyrinth, termite problems, random resistor networks, etc. In the case of diluted randomness the authors can apply the methods of kinetic theory to obtain systematic expansions of dc and ac transport properties in powers of the impurity concentration c. The method is applied to a hopping model on a d-dimensional cubic lattice having two types of bonds with conductivity σ and σ0 = 1, with concentrations c and 1-c, respectively. For the square lattice the authors explicitly calculate the diffusion coefficient D(c,σ) as a function of c, to O(c2) terms included for different ratios of the bond conductivity σ. The probability of return at long times is given by P0(t) ∼ [4πD(c,σ)t]/sup -d/2/, which is determined by the diffusion coefficient of the disordered system
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- J. Stat. Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 45
- Journal Issue
- 5/6
- Series
- J. Stat. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 1001-1030
- ISSN
- 0022-4715
- CODEN
- JSTPB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18096112
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CRYSTAL MODELS; CUBIC LATTICES; DIFFUSION; GREEN FUNCTION; IMPURITIES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMATION; LORENTZ GAS; ORDER PARAMETERS; ORDER-DISORDER TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY; RANDOMNESS; SCATTERING; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SYMMETRY; TRANSPORT THEORY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; FLUIDS; FULLY IONIZED GASES; FUNCTIONS; GASES; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; IONIZED GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SIMULATION; TRANSFORMATIONS