Published December 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Random walks on cubic lattices with bond disorder

  • 1. Univ. of Utrecht, Netherlands

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

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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